W.C. Fields credited as playing...
Sheriff John Hoxley
- Dr. Busby: [Looking at John's warped pool cue] It's seems crooked, isn't it?
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: I'd like to see something in this joint that isn't crooked!
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: It's the old saying... It takes a thief to catch...
- Mrs. K. Rumford: AHEM!
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: ah, must have been thinking about something else.
- Flora Whinney: Don't talk so loud!
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: I always talk loud. I'm a sheriff.
- Dr. Busby: How do you feel?
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: I feel as though the Russian Army has been walking over my tongue in their stocking feet.
- Mrs. K. Rumford: Now, listen to me, Honest John, why do you drink so much?
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: Because I like it.
- Mrs. K. Rumford: Everything you like to do is wrong.
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: According to you, everything I like to do is either illegal, immoral. or fattening.
- Mrs. K. Rumford: John?
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: Yeah?
- Mrs. K. Rumford: Are you busy?
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: [Sarcastically] I'm about as busy as a pickpocket in a nudist colony.
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: [investigating a disturbance in his hotel] What do you want?
- Flora Whinney, Gracie De Vore: A man, a man.
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: Don't. You embarrass me.
- Gracie De Vore: But you don't understand. A man came into our room without even knocking.
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: What kind of a man?
- Gracie De Vore: A man with a suitcase.
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: What color?
- Gracie De Vore: Black.
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: How tall was he?
- Flora Whinney: I don't know. He was bent over.
- Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley: An Ethiopian hunchback with a suitcase. Now we're getting somewhere.