Maverick (TV Series)

The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick (1958)

Ray Teal: Sheriff Chick Tucker

Quotes 

• [the sheriff is checking the strength of the rope that will hang Maverick] 

  Sheriff Chick Tucker : Hey, Maverick, how much do you weigh?

  Bret Maverick : Ninety-eight pounds.

• Sheriff Chick Tucker : Looks like you've got important company coming. The mayor and the whole honking town counsel's heading this way.

  Bret Maverick : See anything that looks like a pardon?

  Sheriff Chick Tucker : [chuckles]  You've got a good sense of humor.

  Bret Maverick : Yeah. Be the death of me yet.

• Sheriff Chick Tucker : Uh, this brother of yours, you know, the one that you said could prove that you wasn't here in Hallelujah that night. Now, he could certainly use the five thousand, couldn't he? Why don't you think about him?

  Bret Maverick : Well, I have been thinking about him, Sheriff, I've been thinking about how we tossed a coin to see who'd go east and who'd go west, thinking about how he'd be here instead of me if that coin had come up tails. With luck like that, he doesn't need my money, Sheriff.

• [first lines] 

  Sheriff Chick Tucker : Any strangers ride into town tonight?