Anne Francis credited as playing...
Liz Wirth
- Liz Wirth: [going to be shot by Smith] I did everything you said!
- Reno Smith: You two started out in a car and that's the way you're gonna end up - over a cliff, burning! You can blame Macreedy for that, he said I had too many witnesses.
- Liz Wirth: But why me? Why start with me?
- Reno Smith: I gotta start with somebody.
- Liz Wirth: Things change.
- John J. Macreedy: Sure do. And Smith is the kid who changes 'em, isn't he?... What's wrong with this town of yours, Miss Wirth?
- Liz Wirth: I don't want to get involved.
- John J. Macreedy: Involved in what?
- Liz Wirth: Whatever you're up to. Whatever happens, I've got to go on living in this town. These people are my neighbors, my friends.
- John J. Macreedy: ALL of 'em?
- Liz Wirth: This is my town, Mr. Macreedy, like it or not.
- John J. Macreedy: Well, if you don't like it, why do you stick around?
- Liz Wirth: My brother Pete, he'd never leave.
- John J. Macreedy: Didn't it ever occur to you that you might leave without him? You look like a pretty independent young lady. Your brother seems to me...
- Liz Wirth: Weak. Yeah, I know. That's why I couldn't leave him.
- John J. Macreedy: What did your brother do?
- Liz Wirth: What do you care? What do you care about Black Rock?
- John J. Macreedy: I don't care anything about Black Rock. Only it just seems to me that there aren't many towns like this in America. But one town like it is enough and because I think something kind of bad happened here, Miss Wirth, something I can't quite seem to find the handle to.
- Liz Wirth: You don't know what you're talking about.
- John J. Macreedy: Well, I know this much: the rule of law has left here and the gorillas have taken over.
- [after Liz provided directions to Komoko's farm to Macreedy, who gave her $10]
- Reno Smith: You shouldn't have done that.
- Liz Wirth: I thought it would be better if he went out there and got done with it. What can he find out? I wouldn't do anything to hurt you, Reno, you know that.
- Reno Smith: This is liable to be the hardest ten dollars you ever earned in your life.
- Liz Wirth: What did you do to get Pete to change his mind? Beat him up?
- John J. Macreedy: No. No muscle.
- Liz Wirth: And not with brains, either; he's a pushover for a muscle man.