Black Bart (1948)

Dan Duryea: Charles E. Boles, Black Bart

Quotes 

• Clark : I've got an idea that's bigger than anything you've ever heard. It'll take time... and it'll take brains.

  Charles E. Boles : I got plenty of time.

• Lance Hardeen : There was something familiar about that kick in the pants I took.

  Charles E. Boles : You must be awfully sensitive to be able to tell one from another.

• Charles E. Boles : I'd like to know why you blew up that tree. You might have killed somebody.

  Jersey Brady : I figured it out. No tree, no hanging.

• Charles E. Boles : Lola, I've been working on something for two years. Something that will make me the biggest man in this part of the country. I'm within an inch of doing it now. You wouldn't want me to quit at this point.

  Lola Montez : The biggest man in the cemetery is still pretty small.

• Jersey Brady : Are we splitting up?

  Charles E. Boles : That's the general idea.

  Lance Hardeen : Why?

  Charles E. Boles : You're bad news, Lance. You're not interested enough in growing old.

  Lance Hardeen : You have to take chances in this line of work.

  Charles E. Boles : Not as many as I've been taking with you.

• Lance Hardeen : What about that $3000 we have buried at Sage Fork.

  Charles E. Boles : We split it.

  Lance Hardeen : How?

  Charles E. Boles : We can't all go together. The first one there takes his share and leaves the rest.

  Lance Hardeen : You must trust me a lot, Charlie.

  Charles E. Boles : I do. Besides, I 've got a faster horse.

• Posse member : This is your last chance to say anything.

  Lance Hardeen : You're hanging two innocent men!

  Posse member : Innocent? You were caught leaving town with the mayor's wife, riding stolen horses and carrying money from two bank holdups!

  Charles E. Boles : You call that evidence?

• Lola Montez : Wouldn't it be a little crowded on the honeymoon? You and me and the hanging party?

  Charles E. Boles : I'll leave them at home.

  Lola Montez : Mr. and Mrs. Black Bart. Somehow it doesn't sound too permanent.

  Charles E. Boles : You have to admit, it doesn't sound dull.

• Lola Montez : How did you know I was on that stage?

  Charles E. Boles : Very simple. There's posters of you from here to the Mexican border.

  Lola Montez : Is that why you chose to rob that particular stage? Because I was on it?

  Charles E. Boles : Well, the $10,000 they were carrying didn't keep me away, either.

• Charles E. Boles : I'll be generous about your faults if you'll be generous about mine.

  Lola Montez : Robbin' stagecoaches hardly comes under the heading of a minor vice.

• Clark : Are you in trouble?

  Charles E. Boles : In Nevada and everywhere east of there I am. Here, I'm all right.

• Charles E. Boles : What are you two doing in town?

  Jersey Brady : Getting out of Texas, mostly.