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Bret Maverick : Why pick on me?
Dandy Jim Buckley : Well, there was no one else here I could trust. So, I was on my way to St. Louis to get my... my cousin, whom I don't trust very much either, when I ran into you. And your greatest weakness, my friend, is that you're completely trustworthy.
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Bret Maverick : You know, I ought to break your neck.
Dandy Jim Buckley : Oh, the urge will pass.
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Dandy Jim Buckley : I'll take that gold, friend Maverick. Try anything and you'll stop a bullet.
Bret Maverick : Buckley, you're a crook and a cheat and a double-crosser, but you're not a killer. You could no more squeeze that trigger than quit marking decks.
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Bret Maverick : Aw, cheer up, friend Buckley. We still have $2000 apiece and a clear conscience.
Dandy Jim Buckley : A clear conscience? We just lost $36,000! I've pulled some pretty mean tricks in my day, but I've never stooped to such foul, nauseating...
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[first lines]
Bret Maverick : [narrating] in 1875, gold was discovered in the Black Hills of Dakota... and a great stampede of gold-hungry men was started... thousands coming up the wide Missouri by steamboat. Dance-hall girls and entertainers... men who'd spent their last dime on a new suit and a steamboat ticket. Men with strong backs... and men with a flair for making money with three walnut shells.
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[last lines]
Bret Maverick : [to Dandy Jim who is in a jail cell] We'll leave your share with the Marshal.
Dandy Jim Buckley : No, no. You can't do this to me, I was only trying to help.
Bret Maverick : Your share minus a thousand for Noah.
Dandy Jim Buckley : Maverick, I'm your friend. Didn't I pull you from the river? Didn't I let you in on the gold? Didn't I get you tossed into jail so you could...? Good heavens. What am I saying?
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Madame Pompey : Hey! I didn't know you were a drinker.
Bret Maverick : Well, I'm not, doesn't keep me from buyin' for my friends
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Bret Maverick : There was only one thing wrong. The meadow had sprouted a full-size town.
Dandy Jim Buckley : Well, don't look at me like that, how was I to know?
Bret Maverick : That's what I'm wondering.
