George Bancroft credited as playing...
Marshal Curley Wilcox
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Come busting in here - you'd think we were being attacked! You can find another wife.
- Chris: Sure I can find another wife. But she take my rifle and my horse. Oh, I'll never sell her. I love her so much. I beat her with a whip and she never get tired.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Your wife?
- Chris: No, my horse. I can find another wife easy, yes, but not a horse like that!
- [last lines]
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization.
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Yeah.
- [laughs]
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Doc, I'll buy you a drink.
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Just one.
- [the stagecoach occupants vote on whether to continue without a cavalry escort]
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: You, Doc?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: I'm not only a philosopher, sir, I'm a fatalist. Somewhere, sometime, there may be the right bullet or the wrong bottle waiting for Josiah Boone. Why worry when or where?
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Yes or no?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: Having that philosophy, sir, I've always courted danger. During the late war - when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln... and General Phil Sheridan - well, sir, I fought mid shot and shell and cannon roar...
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Do you wanna go back or not?
- Dr. Josiah Boone: No! I want another drink.
- Buck: Well, Marshal, I'm lookin' for my shotgun guard. Is he here?
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Out with a posse, Buck. Trying to catch the Ringo Kid.
- Buck: Ringo? I thought Ringo was in the pen?
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: He was.
- Buck: Busted out? Well, good for him!
- [Lt. Blanchard has just informed the stagecoach occupants that the cavalry will not escort them to Lordsburg]
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: This stage is going to Lordsburg. If you think it ain't safe to ride along with us, I figure we can get there without you soldier boys.
- Buck: If I was you, I'd let them shoot it out.
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Let who?
- Buck: Luke Plummer and the Kid. There would be a lot more peace in this territory if that Luke Plummer had so many holes in him he couldn't hold his liquor.
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Now folks, if we push on we can be in Apache Wells by sundown. Soldiers there will give us an escort as far as the ferry. Then it's only a hoot and a holler into Lordsburg. We got four men who can handle firearms - five with you, Ringo. Doc can shoot if sober.
- [the stagecoach occupants are voting whether or not to continue without a cavalry escort]
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: How 'bout you, Mr. Hancock?
- Samuel Peacock: Peacock. I'd like to go on, brother. I want to reach the bosom of my dear family in Kansas City, Kansas as quickly as possible; but, I may never reach that bosom if we go on... so, under the circumstances - you understand, brother - I think it best we go back with the bosoms... I mean the soldiers.
- Buck: If I was you I'd let 'em shoot it out.
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: Let who?
- Buck: Luke Plummer and the Kid. There'd be a lot more peace in this territory if that Luke Plummer was so full of lead he couldn't hold his liquor.
- Marshal Curly Wilcox: I ain't sayin' I don't share your sentiments, Buck. But you're a born fool!
- Buck: Oh, I know that.