Walter Burke credited as playing...
Fred Johnson
- [Jason is inquiring about the job of sheriff]
- Jason McCullough: Well, gentlemen, I think it's only fair to tell you that I'd only be interested in this job on a temporary basis.
- Henry Jackson: Oh?
- Jason McCullough: Well, you see, actually I was on my way to Australia when I heard about your gold strike and I decided to, uh, travel through here and see if I couldn't pick myself up a little stake.
- Thomas Devery: What do you want to go to Australia for?
- Jason McCullough: Well, it's the last of the frontier country. Thought I might like to do a little pioneering.
- Fred Johnson: I thought this was frontier country and we was pioneers.
- Henry Jackson: So did I.
- Jason McCullough: Gentlemen, do we have a jail here?
- Mayor Olly Perkins: Do we have a jail? A brand new one with two cells that the whole community pitched in and built last month!
- Fred Johnson: Just like a barn raising.
- Henry Jackson: Even the dancehall girls showed up. They made sandwiches and carried on like crazy.
- Mayor Olly Perkins: It was designed to be practically escape proof.
- Jason McCullough: Well, good, because I think I'm going to have to throw a couple of people in it.
- Mayor Olly Perkins: There's only one thing. This new jail is sure got everything.
- Fred Johnson: Even a new stove with a coffee pot already on it.
- Mayor Olly Perkins: The only thing it hasn't got is iron bars for the cells.
- Fred Johnson: I heard that the sheriff was gonna leave town.
- Henry Jackson: I did too, And at the time I heard it, I remember saying to myself, "That sheriff has his head set squarely on his shoulders."
- Prudy: Well, now he's NOT gonna leave town.
- Mayor Ollie Perkins: And I'd like to get my hands on whoever it was that caused him to change his mind.
- Henry Jackson: Me too. Man with that good an idea oughta be encouraged to hold on to it.
- Prudy: What is the matter with all of you? Don't you remember how long we waited to find a man who'd stand up to the Danbys? Don't you remember what this town was like before - murderings, lynchings, miners shooting up the town day and night?
- Fred Johnson: And aside from the few things that you just mentioned, it wasn't a bad place at all!
- Henry Jackson: I'd like to remind everyone we're here to consign the remains of Millard Frymore.
- Fred Johnson: It's gold, Henry.
- Henry Jackson: Gold?
- Fred Johnson: Down there in the grave.
- Henry Jackson: Well, let's get this coffin out of the way and have a look.
- Henry Jackson: Now just because we've lost three sheriffs don't mean we're going to lose four.
- Fred Johnson: Our luck is bound to change.
- Mayor Olly Perkins: What about his luck?