Loaded Pistols (1948)

Gene Autry: Gene Autry

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Quotes 

• [after tying Gene to a chair, Mary and Larry prepare to flee an approaching posse] 

  Gene Autry : Hey, wait a minute! Get me out of this steer's necktie and I'll help cloud your trail.

  Larry Evans : Why should we trust you?

  Gene Autry : Why, Ed's ghost would haunt me if I let them hang the wrong man.

• Sheriff Cramer : I'll take your six-shooter.

  Gene Autry : Now look here, Cramer...

  Sheriff Cramer : Just to make sure you mind your own business. I don't wear this badge for fun, you know.

• Dave Randall : Quit stalling. Where's Larry Evans?

  Gene Autry : Say, that reminds me, Randall. Weren't you in that dice game when Norton was killed.

  Dave Randall : That's right. So were Harper and Mason.

  Jake Harper : Now, Gene, you don't think one of us daylighted Ed?

• Gene Autry : Just gonna make some java. Care to join me?

  Sheriff Cramer : Not me - your coffee'd throw a horseshoe. Hope I don't see you in jail.

• Gene Autry : Say, by the way, if you didn't plug Norton, how come he was killed with your gun?

  Larry Evans : I ran out of dough and I put in my gun to stay in the game.

  Gene Autry : Like this one?

  Larry Evans : Yeah. I *had* a pair of 'em.

  Gene Autry : You were out to make yourself a reputation, weren't you? You certainly did. It's too bad - that sort of dime-store hero went out with Billy the Kid.

• [Gene lays his handkerchief on the ground] 

  Larry Evans : What are you doin'?

  Gene Autry : Puttin' my ear to the ground. It's an old Indian scout trick. Silk picks up sound... Wagon comin'.

• Gene Autry : Get out of those clothes!

  Larry Evans : What?

  Gene Autry : You heard me. Chuck the duds and get in the creek!

  Larry Evans : In the creek? But it's ice water! You wanna give me pneumonia?

  Gene Autry : Yeah, but you'll catch lead poisoning if they catch you in that gray check shirt, riding a palomino.

• Sheriff Cramer : Gene, I'd like to borrow that pistol from you if you don't mind.

  Gene Autry : Now look here, Sheriff...

  Sheriff Cramer : It might go off accidental-like and hurt somebody.

  Gene Autry : All right. Remember that's two you owe me.

  Sheriff Cramer : I'm keepin' count.

• Sheriff Cramer : Gene, I'll take...

  [points to Gene's gunbelt] 

  Gene Autry : All right... I know.

  Sheriff Cramer : The ladies say they're not comfortable to dance with.

• Larry Evans : I'm givin' you a chance, Autry.

  Gene Autry : Why you cheap imitation of a leather-slapper. I oughta turn you over to Cramer just to teach you a lesson.

  Larry Evans : Draw or I'll plug ya.

  Gene Autry : Give me that cap pistol before I use it to part your hair!

• Gene Autry : Jim, somebody wants this ranch... wants it bad enough to commit murder. Now what could be here that would pay a man enough to risk his neck for it.

  Jim Hedge : Nothin'.

  Gene Autry : Hold on now, Jim...

  Jim Hedge : I don't haveta. I been over this country hundreds of times.

  Mary Evans : No gold?

  Jim Hedge : Ohhh, maybe enough to fill your tooth.

  Larry Evans : No silver?

  Jim Hedge : Welll, might find enough to plate a watch.

  Gene Autry : You sure there's nothing here?

  Jim Hedge : Are you crazy in the head? I've been prospecting these parts ever since the Apaches were takin' potshots at everything that was movin'...

  [chuckles] 

  Jim Hedge : That is, everything but coyotes. It's bad luck to shoot your own relatives.

• Gene Autry : Jim, I want you to take Larry and keep him under cover until you hear from me.

  Larry Evans : Oh, I couldn't ask Mr. Hedges to take a risk like that.

  Jim Hedge : You didn't!

  [points to Gene] 

  Jim Hedge : He did.

• [Sheriff Cramer fires at the murderer who attempts to escape on Gene's horse] 

  Gene Autry : Hold it, Sheriff!

  Sheriff Cramer : But he's got your horse!

  Gene Autry : That's his hard luck.

  [Gene whistles and Champion wheels and returns the killer to the posse] 

• Sheriff Cramer : What the sam hill is going on here?

  Gene Autry : We were playing "post office".

  Sheriff Cramer : But that's a kid's game.

  Gene Autry : Not the way we play it.