Black Bart (1948)

Jeffrey Lynn: Lance Hardeen

Quotes 

• Jersey Brady : Something has been bothering me lately.

  Lance Hardeen : What's that?

  Jersey Brady : We've been run out of Kansas, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico and Arizona. What do we do when we run out of places.

  Lance Hardeen : Move further west.

  Jersey Brady : There's an ocean out there someplace.

  Lance Hardeen : We could start back in Kansas again. They must have a new sheriff by this 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.

• Lance Hardeen : One thing about being a crook. You can spot another crook at fifty paces.

• Jersey Brady : There ain't no permanence in this business. You just begin to like somebody and he turns up dead.

  Lance Hardeen : You can lose a lot of people you don't like that way, too.

• 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?

• Lance Hardeen : You don't seem to be nervous traveling alone.

  Lola Montez : Should I be?

  Lance Hardeen : This is dangerous country for a woman traveling alone.

  Lola Montez : I've never been in one that wasn't.