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Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter (1973)

Billy Curtis: Mordecai

High Plains Drifter

Billy Curtis credited as playing...

Mordecai

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  • [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"]
  • The Stranger: Wonder what took her so long to get mad?
  • Mordecai: Because maybe you didn't go back for more?
  • 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.
  • Mordecai: All right, everybody grab a brush and start in!
  • Mayor Jason Hobart: You mean you want the whole place painted?
  • The Stranger: Everything.
  • Preacher: You can't possibly mean the church, too?
  • The Stranger: I mean *especially* the church.

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