Joel McCrea credited as playing...
Steve Judd
- Elsa Knudsen: My father says there's only right and wrong. Good and evil. Nothing in between. It isn't that simple, is it?
- Steve Judd: No, it isn't. It should be, but it isn't.
- Steve Judd: You redneck peckerwoods! You're too chicken-gutted to finish this thing out in the open!
- Gil Westrum: Don't worry about anything. I'll take care of it, just like you would have.
- Steve Judd: Hell, I know that. I always did. You just forgot it for a while, that's all.
- Gil Westrum: Cut me loose, Steve!
- Steve Judd: Why?
- Gil Westrum: [Gil holds out his bound outstretched wrists] Because I don't sleep so good anymore.
- Steve Judd: [Sees Heck carelessly discarding a paper wrapper on the ground] Pick that up! These mountains don't need your trash.
- Steve Judd: [to Gil as they bed down in the barn] If my sleeping bothers you, don't bother to let me know it.
- Gil Westrum: [with sarcasm] Dandy pair of boots you got there.
- Steve Judd: Juan Fernandez made those boots for me in San Antone. Special order. I had a hell of a time getting him to put that hole in there. Fine craftsman, Juan, but he never did understand the principle of ventilation.
- Gil Westrum: I remember Juan. Always felt the boot should cover the foot.
- Elsa Knudsen: What's gonna happen to him?
- Steve Judd: The boy? I'll testify for him. They shouldn't be too hard.
- Elsa Knudsen: Will you testify for Mr. Westrum?
- Steve Judd: No. I won't.
- Elsa Knudsen: Why?
- Steve Judd: Because he was my friend.
- Steve Judd: [after knocking out Heck with one punch] When I questioned you about that boy, I should've gone a bit deeper into the subject of character. I hope that's a mistake I won't live to regret.
- Steve Judd: [wryly] Good fight! I enjoyed it!
- Steve Judd: [Quoting from the Bible, Proverbs 22:14] "The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit. Him that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein."
- Steve Judd: [Meeting Joshua Knudsen when they arrive at his farmstead] We're on our way to Coarsegold. Wondered if you could furnish accommodations for the night?
- Joshua Knudsen: Well, I've got no room in the house. But I've no objection if you want to spend the night in the barn.
- Steve Judd: Thank you, sir. If you could spare us a few eggs, we'd be glad to pay for them.
- Joshua Knudsen: Well, you can have one, because the Lord's bounty is not for sale. The rest are a dollar each.
- Heck Longtree: [Outraged at the price] A dollar each! Now how in the world do those short-legged chickens lay eggs so high?
- Joshua Knudsen: [Dourly] Levity in the young is likened to a dry gourd, with the seeds rattling around.
- Steve Judd: That boy you trained personally shows a substantial lack of judgment.
- Gil Westrum: Kinda' showin' *your* age, aren't ya? Interfering with a young man's love life.
- Steve Judd: Well, I'm not payin' him ten dollars a day to go moonin' after some girl whose old man is about to hind-end him with a load of buckshot!
- Steve Judd: What more could a man expect? I got to thinkin' about that one time. Well, sir, I keep records. When I became a lawman, the world lost a first-class bookkeeper. So, to pass the time one day, I sort of calculated what it's worth to get shot at. Figured it about a hundred dollars a shot.
- Gil Westrum: You would have earned quite a sum by now.
- Steve Judd: Getting hit? I figure that's worth anywhere from a thousand on up.
- Gil Westrum: That's three thousand I know you got coming.
- Steve Judd: Four brings it up to date. Then tally up all the fights, bush-whackings, cold camps and the like. That time in Lincoln County. Five weeks in the hospital, six months out of work. Add it all up, I'd say I was owed about all the gold we could carry out of these mountains. That's something to hope for.
- Luther Sampson: I must say, Mr. Judd, I expected a much younger man.
- Steve Judd: Well, I used to be. We all used to be.