Coroner Creek (1948)

George Macready: Younger Miles

Quotes 

• 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!

• Ernie Combs : Why'd you let him get away with it?

  Younger Miles : He wanted me to draw. I wonder why.

• Younger Miles : We can't afford to hunt him down ourselves. It ain't legal.

  Frank Yordy : Say, that wouldn't stop you, Mr. Miles.

  Younger Miles : Yordy, someday somebody's going to poke your tongue down your throat.

• Tip Henry : He said he'd come back every night and shoot up the place until I moved or got killed. And he said to tell you that he wouldn't need any Indians to help him do the job.

  Younger Miles : What did you say about Indians?

  Tip Henry : I don't savvy the Indian part. Did you know Danning from someplace else?

  Younger Miles : [Miles picks up a pair of spurs from the table and slashes Henry across the face]  That'll teach you not to walk out on me, you yellow back!

• 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.

• Younger Miles : If you expect me to sit around and watch you tear down everything I've built up, you're crazier than I think. I've worked hard to get where I am... and done everything a man can do. I've lied, cheated and stolen. I've even killed to build this set-up I've got now. And I'm not going to let any man destroy it. Least of all you.

• Younger Miles : I'm Younger Miles. Ernie says you can't make up your mind about working for me.

  Chris Denning : That's what I told him.

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

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