Hec Ramsey (TV Series)
Hangman's Wages (1972)
Richard Boone: Hec Ramsey
Quotes
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Wes Durham : This a pretty good job?
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : Spirits, bacon and beans... steak twice a week.
Wes Durham : Hangman's wages. You ain't gettin' no younger. What happens when the miseries curl up your fingers?
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : I'll steal fewer drinks.
Wes Durham : What if some young punk calls you out and yer packin' about a pound of slugs in ya?
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : Well, I can always burst into tears.
Wes Durham : And then give him a mealy mouth grin so's he'll buy you a drink.
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : Hey, Wes, maybe they gonna put me out ta stud.
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Wes Durham : Hec... there's five thousand dollards in gold to bust me outta here.
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : You offerin' me a livin' legend for five thousand dollars?
Wes Durham : What are ya askin'?
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : I'm not askin' nothin'.
Wes Durham : Six thousand.
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : No.
Wes Durham : I won't offer it agin.
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : I guess I got this talent for poverty, Wes.
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Chief Oliver Stamp : You made any progress?
Hec Ramsey : I can tell you this: He is one smart fella and that's a fact.
Chief Oliver Stamp : [sarcastically] Oh, that's what I call progress. How do you know that?
Hec Ramsey : Well, for the one thing, he used a shotgun. Can't compare ballistics on buckshot. For another, he used the busiest road in the county. Pretty hard to trail him in the middle of that. And, then the victim - perfect stranger, just the first person that happened to pass by and no motive. And, finally, nobody can spell that bad 'cept a smart man on purpose.
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Wes Durham : Mother always said I'd wind up at the end of a rope.
Hec Ramsey : Well, all due respect to your mother, the Town Council - Doc here abstainin' - has decided that a character of your purple reputation bein' executed by electrocution is gonna strike terror to the black heart of every outlaw from here to Texas.
Wes Durham : [chuckles] You believe that?
Hec Ramsey : [laughs] Hell, no. Should be nice if it did, though.
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Hec Ramsey : You couldn't track a freight train. Now, why are you so hell-bent on me havin' company?
Chief Oliver Stamp : Hangover from my school-teaching days. Always had a soft spot in my heart for the dumbest kid in class.
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Chief Oliver Stamp : You're out of uniform.
Hec Ramsey : Oh, sorry. Well, I don't like to play poker when I'm wearin' my badge.
Chief Oliver Stamp : What are you doing playing poker at this time of day?
Hec Ramsey : Just amplifying my very small income.
Chief Oliver Stamp : Shouldn't you be out patrolling the street?
Hec Ramsey : Well, this many folks in town, the trouble may end up in the street, but it usually starts in the saloon.