Ernest Borgnine credited as playing...
Coley Trimble
- Coley Trimble: You're a yellow-bellied Jap lover! Am I right or wrong?
- John J. Macreedy: You're not only wrong. You're wrong at the top of your voice.
- Coley Trimble: [gets ready to scrap] You don't like my voice?
- Coley Trimble: I think Macreedy's a nothin', a nobody. So there's nothin' to worry about. What can he find out?... That Komoko... Suppose he finds out.
- Reno Smith: A nobody like Macreedy can raise a pretty big stink. The point is, who'd miss a nobody like Macreedy if he just, uh, say, disappeared? Who, Coley?
- Pete Wirth: Why don't we wait?... I mean, maybe he won't find anything. Maybe he'll just go away.
- Reno Smith: Not Macreedy. I know those maimed guys. Their minds get twisted. They put on hair-shirts and act like martyrs. All of 'em are do-gooders, freaks, troublemakers.
- Pete Wirth: Let's wait and see. There's no danger yet.
- Reno Smith: No danger, he says. This guy's like a carrier of small pox. Since he's arrived, this town has a fever, an infection, and it's spreading.
- John J. Macreedy: Your friend's a very... argumentative fellow.
- Reno Smith: Sort of unpredictable, too. Got a temper like a rattlesnake.
- Coley Trimble: That's me all over. I'm half horse, half alligator - you mess with me and I'll kick a lung outta' ya! What d'ya think of that?
- John J. Macreedy: No comment.
- Coley Trimble: You know, talkin' to you is like pullin' teeth. You wear me out.
- Coley Trimble: You ought to be careful, man - all that one-arm driving.
- John J. Macreedy: I'd be glad to pay the damages.
- Coley Trimble: It's a threat to life and limb!