Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

Walter Matthau: Sheriff Morey Johnson

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• Sheriff Morey Johnson : [sees light flashing on police radio]  Red light's flashing, Harry. You got any time for the machine?

  Harry : Machine? Right.

  [into radio] 

  Harry : Roger, Highway Patrol. CS-1 out.

  Sheriff Morey Johnson : What was that signal, Harry?

  Harry : Signal? Oh, just the State Highway Patrol. Just a routine check.

  Sheriff Morey Johnson : Locate McNeil wherever he is and send him out for chewing gum.

  Harry : McNeil? Right!

  Sheriff Morey Johnson : When I tell you to watch that machine of yours, you say, "Machine? Right." When I give you a message for McNeil, you say, "McNeil? Right." There's something about the way you make a question of it and then say "right" that gets on my nerves.

  Harry : Nerves?

  Sheriff Morey Johnson : [sighs]  Right.

• Sheriff Morey Johnson : You'd think we're chasing a ghost... an invisible horse and an invisible cowboy. Harry, throw me that canteen. I haven't got enough spit left to wet a stick of gum.