Kirk Douglas credited as playing...
Marshal Len Merrick
- Marshal Len Merrick: Sorry about your son, Roden.
- Ned Roden: He was worth any five men on the range. He was what I always wanted... golden in the sun... guns seemed made for his fingers. There wasn't a horse he couldn't ride or a man whose heart he couldn't win... and now he's dead - his heart smashed by a rustlers bullet.
- Marshal Len Merrick: [Realizing the shooter he's struggling with is a pretty woman] Hey-hey! Kickin' won't get you anywhere - unless you're a mule.
- [Noticing her physical attractiveness]
- Marshal Len Merrick: I'm glad to see you're not.
- Marshal Len Merrick: [Trying to treat her injuries under her pant leg with some difficulty] Sorry, but it'd be a lot easier if you wore dresses.
- Ann Keith: Dresses slow yuh down!
- Marshal Len Merrick: Depends on where yuh goin'.
- Marshal Len Merrick: We'll head through the desert to Santa Loma.
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: [taken aback] The desert? Why, this is August, man. No self-respecting rattler would try to cross the desert in this heat.
- Deputy Lou Gray: You'd never make Santa Loma that'a way!
- Marshal Len Merrick: We got no choice. The other way, Roden'll be waitin'. I don't aim to have us all killed.
- Deputy Lou Gray: Well, let Roden have the old man. He ain't meant nothin' but trouble to us.
- Ann Keith: Sure, give him up, jug head. Save your own hide!
- Marshal Len Merrick: We're leaving now across the desert. Look, I know it's tougher, but they won't figure on us taking the long way around. And even if they do, we'll have a night's ride ahead of them. Pack up, Billy.
- Marshal Len Merrick: You didn't need to cut yourself like that.
- Ann Keith: [taken aback] Cut myself?
- Marshal Len Merrick: [indicating the spur on his boot] I wear a single rowel. You cut yourself with a Mexican spur.
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: [dictating his last will & testament to Deputy Billy Shear] Now, this here Bowie knife I give to...
- Marshal Len Merrick: [intercepting him and taking the knife] You give it to me. For the time being.
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: All right, put it down. I give it to Marshall Merrick agin my better feelings.