Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
Randolph Scott: Tom Buchanan
Quotes
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Pecos Hill : There ain't no place like West Texas.
Tom Buchanan : Then how come you're in California?
Pecos Hill : Oh, I fiddle-footed. This country is so dang big, a man just itches to move around it. One day I got tired of watching the sun go west and I just followed it on out here. But I ain't itchin' no more. Before long, I'll follow that sun right on back to where I come from.
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Pecos Hill : Well, what are we going to do now?
Tom Buchanan : First tie him up. Then fix us some food, Then... I'm not sure.
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Tom Buchanan : For a West Texan you do killin' awful cheap, Pecos.
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Tom Buchanan : I ramrodded some, a little border spread. Then I got some ideas about honing for my own, so I crossed the line and tried to stake myself to some animals.
Judge Simon Agry : By rustling?
Tom Buchanan : No, sir... fighting!
Judge Simon Agry : So you're a fighter?
Tom Buchanan : Yes, sir.
Judge Simon Agry : What kind of fighting?
Tom Buchanan : Most any kind... providing there's money in it. Joined General Campos in Mexico.
Judge Simon Agry : Then murder is nothing new to you, Buchanan.
Tom Buchanan : Ain't murder when you kill in a revolution.
Judge Simon Agry : Why aren't you still there?
Tom Buchanan : The revolution petered out. Besides, I got myself a stake.
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Lew Agry : You don't like this town?
Tom Buchanan : I don't like some of its people.
Lew Agry : Me included?
Tom Buchanan : You especially.
Lew Agry : Oh, you'd like to kill me, maybe?
Tom Buchanan : I'd like to give you what you and your boys gave me.
Lew Agry : Take the law into your own hands, is that it?
Tom Buchanan : No. Just you.
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Tom Buchanan : Sounds like you put a lot of store in bein' a Texan.
Pecos Hill : A man's gotta be loyal to somethin'.
Tom Buchanan : That's the same way I feel.
Lafe : Pecos, come on back here.
Pecos Hill : [Referring to murdering Buchanan] Buchanan, I want you to know I don't cotton none to this job.
Tom Buchanan : A man oughtn't do a job he don't cotton to, Pecos.
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Judge Simon Agry : We get enough drifters coming across the border with nothing in their pockets. I wouldn't linger in Agry Town if I was you.
Tom Buchanan : I ain't gonna linger no place until I get back where I belong.
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Abe Carbo : Where do you think you're going.
Tom Buchanan : West Texas.
Abe Carbo : Good, I'd advise you not to stay here. Like you say, this is my town now.
Tom Buchanan : Mr. Carbo, you can have it.
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Tom Buchanan : Ain't anybody in this town that ain't an Agry?