Dean Martin credited as playing...
Tom Elder
- Tom Elder: Mr. Hastings, you know everybody around here: Can you tell us who is the dirty stinkin' lowdown rat that shot our pa?
- Tom Elder: Well, time ain't made you any prettier to look at.
- John Elder: Tom! It hasn't helped you any, either.
- John Elder: Twelve hundred acres of the - best land anywhere. I wonder why she sold.
- Tom Elder: Well, I guess a woman couldn't run a big spread by herself.
- Tom Elder: Your Ma took guitar lessons?
- Mr. Peevey: Yeah. I figured, in her old age, she could earn a living playing the guitar in the saloon. You want to hear her?
- Tom Elder: Well, no thank you, Mr. Peevey. Some other time.
- Bud Elder: I ain't going back to college! I'm going with him.
- [looks towards John]
- John Elder: There's just one little thing you're forgetting - you ain't been invited.
- Tom Elder: Oh, I'd take you with me, Bud, but I don't exactly know where I'm goin'. But, I'll tell you one thing, I ain't goin' anyplace where I've already been.
- John Elder: Why can't we get some straight answers? Why didn't you tell us that Bass was shot in the back?
- Sheriff Billy Wilson: When a man is killed, does it make a whole lot of difference which direction the bullet came from?
- Tom Elder: It makes all the difference, if you're trying to find out whether he was murdered or not.
- Tom Elder: One thing I can't stand is a man that forces himself on a girl who wouldn't be caught *dead* with him.
- Tom Elder: Spend my own money for a drink? Why, Pa would come out of his grave like scorched cat. Never spend your own money for booze, kid.
- Tom Elder: She's no different than any other mother. She tried to raise her kids the right way. They didn't turn out the right way. So, what of it?