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Matewan (1987)

Gordon Clapp: Tom Griggs

Matewan

Gordon Clapp credited as playing...

Tom Griggs

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  • Bill Hickey: I figure that little show you were putting on out there the other day was just for bargaining power. Or are you going to be stupid too?
  • Sid Hatfield: Either of you shit hogs lift a finger in town limits, I'll put you away.
  • Tom Griggs: Damn hillbillies always got to do it the hard way.
  • Bill Hickey: Where's all our other friends tonight, Miss Elma? They get tired of the chuck or what?
  • Tom Griggs: I think that old biddy went on strike, laid down her teeth in protest.
  • Elma Radnor: They're just particular about who they eat with.
  • Bill Hickey: What about you, Miss Elma? Are you particular?
  • Elma Radnor: If Stone Mountain didn't hold the lease here you two wouldn't...
  • Tom Griggs: If Stone Mountain didn't hold the lease, you'd be peddling poontang down in Cinder Bottom, so just shut your mouth about it.
  • Tom Griggs: Bitch got no table manners.
  • Tom Griggs: He's the red, Hickey. He's the agitator.
  • Joe Kenehan: Everybody, see I don't got a gun on me?
  • Bill Hickey: What good do you think that's going to do you, red?
  • Joe Kenehan: You shoot me, folks'll know it was murder.
  • Bill Hickey: Well, that's some cold comfort.
  • Bill Hickey: Guess we both doomed to the hot place.
  • Tom Griggs: [looking at Danny] The Lord relies on little shits like this one to spread his word, I don't want no truck with heaven.
  • Bill Hickey: And as for hell, well, we been to West Virginia!

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