Coroner Creek (1948)

Edgar Buchanan: Sheriff O'Hea

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Quotes 

• Sheriff O'Hea : Hi, everybody! I'm serving notice on all you evildoers to make yourself scarce because the majesty of the law has just arrived.

• Younger Miles : When I pay a man, I expect him to be loyal enough to keep his mouth shut.

  Chris Denning : And if you don't pay him?

  Younger Miles : He still gets paid, some other way.

  Chris Denning : [Speaking to a man in the bar, loud enough for everyone to hear]  Hey, you there. You know Mrs. Miles? I took her home last night. She was drunk. Dead drunk.

  [the others in the saloon begin to clear away] 

  Sheriff O'Hea : [Walking in the door]  Hi, everybody. I'm serving notice on all you evildoers to make yourself scarce, because the majesty of the law has just arrived. Well, just in time!

• Younger Miles : [Miles catches his wife drinking again]  I warned you, Abbie!

  Abbie Miles : I'm in my own home!

  [Miles slaps her and walks out just as Abbie's father walks in] 

  Sheriff O'Hea : Has that ever happened before, Abbie?

  [She shakes her head and cries] 

  Sheriff O'Hea : When you were a little girl, I couldn't bring myself to lay a hand on you, even to spank you, no matter how wild you got. I never thought I'd live to see the day my girl got slapped and I did nothing about it.

• Sheriff O'Hea : How's that lovely daughter of mine, Miles?

  Younger Miles : Abbie's fine, Sheriff. We were just talking about her.