Clint Eastwood credited as playing...
The Stranger
- Sarah Belding: Be careful. You're a man who makes people afraid, and that's dangerous.
- The Stranger: It's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid.
- [last scene: the stranger is on his way out of town. He stops at the cemetary, where Mordecai is chiseling a gravestone]
- Mordecai: I'm just about done here.
- [pause]
- Mordecai: I never did know your name...
- The Stranger: Yes, you do.
- [Mordecai stares at the stranger, confused]
- The Stranger: Take care.
- Mordecai: [salutes] Yes, sir, captain!
- [the Stranger rides away. The camera pans back to reveal the writing on the gravestone: "MARSHAL JIM DUNCAN - REST IN PEACE"]
- Bill Borders: Maybe you think you're fast enough to keep up with us, huh?
- The Stranger: A lot faster than you'll ever live to be.
- Preacher: See here, you can't turn all these people out into the night. It is inhuman, brother. Inhuman!
- The Stranger: I'm not your brother.
- Preacher: We are all brothers in the eyes of God.
- The Stranger: All these people, are they your sisters and brothers?
- Preacher: They most certainly are.
- The Stranger: ...Then you won't mind if they come over and stay at your place, will ya?
- The Stranger: Wonder what took her so long to get mad?
- Mordecai: Because maybe you didn't go back for more?
- Sheriff Dan Shaw: Well, I been needin' to talk with you; now's as good a time as any.
- The Stranger: What about?
- Sheriff Dan Shaw: Billy Borders.
- The Stranger: Don't know the man.
- Sheriff Dan Shaw: Well, you missed your chance; you shot him yesterday.
- The Stranger: I want every man in the regiment to have one of these nice rifles here.
- Gunsmith: What regiment?
- The Stranger: City of Lago Volunteers.
- Gunsmith: Never heard of it.
- The Stranger: Well you ought to, you're in it. So are you, you, and all of you out there. I want everyone out in the street in 10 minutes for drill.
- The Stranger: I'd love to oblige you. But a man's got to get his rest sometime.
- Sarah Belding: Oblige me?
- The Stranger: But I tell you what, if you'd come back in about half hour, I'll see what I can do, all right?
- [first lines]
- The Stranger: Beer... and a bottle.
- Lutie Naylor: Ain't much good, but it's all there is.
- [brings drinks]
- Lutie Naylor: You want anything else?
- The Stranger: Just a peaceful hour to drink it in.
- Sheriff Dan Shaw: [after the Stranger blows up the hotel and shoots four men] What the hell happened?
- The Stranger: Somebody left the door open and the wrong dogs came home.
- Mordecai: What about after we do it?
- The Stranger: Hmm?
- Mordecai: What do we do then?
- The Stranger: Then you live with it.
- Mordacai: What did you say your name was again?
- The Stranger: I didn't.
- Mordecai: No. I guess you didn't at that, did you?
- Lutie Naylor: [the stranger has bought a round for the house] Let's see, one round for the house plus the smoke; that comes to about eight dollars and fifty cents.
- Sheriff Dan Shaw: [chuckling] There's no charge Lutie; you were at the meeting, anything he wants.
- Lutie Naylor: I didn't know that mean free whiskey!
- Sheriff Dan Shaw: Everybody's got to put something in the kitty.
- The Stranger: [Reaches over a takes off Shaw's badge and pins it on Mordecai] 'Bout time this town had a new sheriff.
- Mordacai: I'm the new sheriff!
- [looks around the saloon]
- Mordacai: I'm the new sheriff!
- Mayor Jason Hobart: [laughing] I'm sorry, Dan; but you should have seen the look on your face when he took off your badge and pinned it on the runt.
- Mordacai: I'm not a runt anymore; I'm the new sheriff!
- The Stranger: [reaches over and takes off the mayor's hat and puts it on Mordecai] And the mayor. Any objections?
- Mayor Jason Hobart: Uh, no.