Stagecoach West (TV Series)

A Place of Still Waters (1961)

Edward Binns: Reverend Hallett

Quotes 

• Davey Kane : But you're a preacher...

  Jim Hallett : And you're wondering how a preacher can have a man like Pierce Martin for a friend, is that it? Sit down, David. David, do you remember that wolf cub that Luke found up on the trail and brought home?

  Davey Kane : Oh, you mean Buff.

  Jim Hallett : You raised Buff, didn't you and loved him? You didn't think of him as being a wolf. He was your dog. Then he started killing sheep and they had to shoot him. Did you stop loving him?

  Davey Kane : No.

  Jim Hallett : That's the way I feel about Pierce Martin.

• Jim Hallett : The man who is in the most trouble needs the most help.

• [Hallett leads the posse to Martin's favorite place] 

  Jim Hallett : Why did you have to come back here, Pierce.

  Pierce Martin : Why I don't know.

  Jim Hallett : They found that other man you shot. Why did you have to kill him?

  Pierce Martin : I don't know that, either.

• [last lines] 

  Jim Hallett : I understand you've been doing some *talking* around town.

  Simon Kane : A word here and there - nothing more.

  Jim Hallett : Well, whatever it is, I want to thank you. You helped me get my church back again.

  Simon Kane : It's an even trade.

  Jim Hallett : An even trade?

  Simon Kane : Well, a man who's been through what you have and come out ahead, drawing on a far greater strength than his own, I never saw this in a man before I saw it in you. Let's say you've given me and a lot of the other people in this town a new look at God and let it go at that.