Bells of San Angelo (1947)

Roy Rogers: Roy Rogers

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• [first lines] 

  Padre : It's always good when you come here and we join our voices together in song. I'm only sorry that trouble brings you here.

  Roy Rogers : I'm sorry too, Padre, but I think with the help of my friends over the border here, we'll be able to get this thing straightened out.

• [Roy is unhappy that his boss has ordered to cooperate with Lee Madison while she researches her next western novel] 

  Bob : Did you read "Murder on the Border"?

  Cookie Bullfincher : Golly, I did. It's about...

  Roy Rogers : I know what it's about - black-hearted villains and roarin' six-guns. I'd like to see him face those six guns he writes about.

• [Roy pretends to be an outlaw so he can scare Lee Madison into returning to the East] 

  Roy Rogers : Well, where's Madison?

  Lee Madison : H-he didn't show up. What do you want him for?

  Roy Rogers : I want his money. He's rich and I'm poor!

  Lee Madison : You mean you rob from the rich and give to the poor?

  Roy Rogers : Yeah, that's right. Besides, I don't like him.

  Lee Madison : Why?

  Roy Rogers : Did you ever read any of those awful western stories he writes?

  Lee Madison : Awful?

  Roy Rogers : Yeah, awful. They give us outlaws a bad name!

• Roy Rogers : Here's the silver we found on the murdered boy. It's almost pure. Lee was right - it's a plant. Here's the real ore from the Monarch

  [mine] 

  Roy Rogers : . There isn't enough silver in a ton of it to pay their light bill.

• [seeking the location of an old Mexican silver mine, Roy, Cookie, Lee and the Padre find a clue on one of the bells of San Angelo church] 

  Padre : [reading the inscription]  "As the sun rises, the shadow of my arms and the pillar of my strength shall mark that which God made and whence came the bells of San Angelo."

  Lee Madison : That's beautiful!

  Cookie Bullfincher : But what does it mean?

  Roy Rogers : "... The shadow of my arms and the pillar of my strength..." Arms, pillar - that must mean a cross! Cookie, do you know where there's a cross around here?

  Cookie Bullfincher : Sure! On top of the church.

  Roy Rogers : No, I mean up in the hills near the border where the mine could be.

  Padre : None now, but there was a shrine many years ago to which the people came to pray to Santa Guadalupe at Easter.

  Cookie Bullfincher : Sure, Padre, I remember. On your side of the border near some rimrock!

• [Roy accidentally bumps into Lee Madison, and realizes that she was the girl in the coach he had held-up earlier that day] 

  Roy Rogers : Why, hello there, I met you...

  [catches himself] 

  Roy Rogers : I mean, I'm sorry.