Storm Warning (1950)

Ronald Reagan: Burt Rainey

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• Burt Rainey : Just wearing that hood doesn't change your voice, Walker. Am I supposed to be afraid of you because your face is covered up? It'll take more than these sheets you're wearing to hide the fact that you're mean, frightened little people, or you wouldn't be here, desecrating the cross.

  Charlie Barr : In the name of the imperial Klan...

  Burt Rainey : Don't give me that Halloween routine.

• Burt Rainey : Hear that yellin' out there? That's the Klan! They just found out that law and order can't touch them. You did that when you let them off! They're runnin' wild! They're gonna rip up the old laws and make new ones! They're gonna do every rotten thing they can think of doing!

• Burt Rainey : Complicated, isn't it? Here we are trying to find a bunch of murderers. When we find them, who will they be? Probably friends of ours, fellows we went to school with.

• Burt Rainey : You a member of the Klan, Walters?

  Walt Walters : I used to be.

  Burt Rainey : You're kidding.

  Walt Walters : Fact.

  Burt Rainey : Why'd you join?

  Walt Walters : I thought it was something to do good. You know, help people. Get them out of trouble, keep them out. I wanted to help people.

  Burt Rainey : What do you know about that. Why'd you quit?

  Walt Walters : I found out it was a lot of bunk. Just a racket. Bunch of hoodlums dressed up in sheets.

• Burt Rainey : You think you're doing right. Well, I think you're doing exactly what the Klan wants you to.

• Sheriff Art Jaeger : It was the Klan. What about it?

  Burt Rainey : Well, a man got killed. Something's got to be done about it.

  Sheriff Art Jaeger : All right, tell me what. l'll do what you say. That's what l'm here for. You wanna start naming names, Mr. Rainey? l'll pull them in, if you name 'em.

  Burt Rainey : That's not good enough, Art.

  Sheriff Art Jaeger : Well, that's all there is. I take orders. You give me an order, l'll do it. You know anybody in Rock Point who will go to the inquest for you and testify against the Klan? Tell me, and l'll bring 'em in. If you don't, and you don't, stop kicking my men around for not doing what you can't do yourself.

  Burt Rainey : I know. But every time someone from New York, Washington, or points north, starts poking his nose in our affairs, we holler foul. Well, if we don't want the meddling, one of these days we're gonna have to start cleaning up our own messes. You and me. All of us.

• Sheriff Art Jaeger : How far did you get eight months ago with that lynching?

  Burt Rainey : About as far as l'll get with this one.

• Ambulance Driver : What'd this guy wanna come down here for in the first place? What they don't seem to understand is we folks get along all right. So long as nobody starts interfering with us in Washington. Points north.

  Burt Rainey : Adams didn't come from Washington. He worked for a paper in Birmingham, and that's not north.

• Burt Rainey : Nobody saw anything. Nobody heard anything. It's a shame Adam's body keeps getting in the way.

  Walt Walters : I don't know who's the guiltier, the one who commits the crime or the one who just stands by and refuses to do anything about it.

  Burt Rainey : Sometimes, I sit around for hours trying to figure that one out.