Maverick (TV Series)

The Quick and the Dead (1957)

Sam Buffington: Ponca Brown

Quotes 

• Ponca : Hey, ain't I seen you someplace?

  Bret Maverick : It's possible, I've been there.

  Ponca : Sure, Ponca City, that's where it was. You was the customer that didn't drink.

  Bret Maverick : And you're the bartender who did.

• Ponca : Hey, you're a gambling man. There's an opening for a dealer at the Red Front Casino.

  Bret Maverick : What happened to the old dealer?

  [Ponca points at a passing hearse] 

  Ponca : He found a new opening.

  Bret Maverick : Too bad.

  Ponca : Uh-uh. Too slow.

• Gus : You hush up, Ponca. You've had enough.

  Ponca : [chuckles]  Enough? I ain't never had enough.

  Gus : When you start talking about taking on Doc Holliday, that's the legal limit in this bar.

• Bret Maverick : I take it we're talkin' about the same Doc Holliday?

  Ponca Brown : You know him?

  Bret Maverick : Well, I played cards with him once in Wichita... didn't figure he'd back down from anybody, doesn't care that much about livin'.

• Ponca Brown : [as Bret watches Cora walk away]  Hey, don't look like that.

  Bret Maverick : Like what?

  Bret Maverick : Like you're lookin'. That's the way the other dealer started lookin', the one that left town in the box.