Texas Masquerade (1944)

William Boyd: Hopalong Cassidy

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• John Martindale : I was tryin' to dig this well when they came.

  Hopalong Cassidy : [grabbing a handful of soil and smelling it]  You have any trouble diggin' this stuff?

  John Martindale : Always! Black gumbo keeps oozin' into the hole.

  Hopalong Cassidy : This is why Trimble wants your ranch and all the other land in the valley.

  California Carlson : You mean that smelly stuff?

  Jimmy Rogers : What's it good for?

  Hopalong Cassidy : [laughs]  There's a young fellah in the East can tell yuh. He's on his way to bein' the richest man in the world on account of it. His name is Rockefeller... John D!

• Hopalong Cassidy : Hold onto this land. Never sell Texas short. You know, what's under the ground might some day be more important to America than what's above it.

• Hopalong Cassidy : [being held under gunpoint by a vengeful Nolan]  Well, why don't you get it over with?

  Sam Nolan : I'm waitin' for you to beg me not to kill yuh.

  Hopalong Cassidy : Don't make it would do much good now.

  Sam Nolan : I'm not so sure about that. When a man's dead, nuthin' hurts no more. There must be somethin' that hurts worse than just killin'.