Storm Warning (1950)

Hugh Sanders: Charlie Barr

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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.

• Charlie Barr : Don't force me to show you how we handle people! We're the law here! We're the judges and the jury!

  Marsha Mitchell : I'm no hero. I'm scared! That's what you wanted, and that's the way it is. Yeah, I'm afraid of what you might do to me. But if I ever get out of here, I'm gonna tell, and there's nothing you can do that'll stop me!

• Charlie Barr : I'll give you a tip, young fellow. Never go off half-cocked. Who's to say the Klan's involved? You got a witness? Don't drag people into anything unless you got solid legal evidence. Everything that happens in these small towns, right away they blame it on the Klan.

• Charlie Barr : You have to think of all the good the Klan does. You have to think of what it would be like down here without us. Without us, a girl like you wouldn't be safe on the street at night. You have to think of that.

• Charlie Barr : l'm not running. I worked hard for what I got. You think l'm gonna throw it all away, like garbage? I don't have to, because Rainey won't get his indictment. Nobody's gonna talk. Nobody.

• Charlie Barr : The boys are just having a little harmless fun, Miss Mitchell.

  Marsha Mitchell : Is this what you call harmless?

  Charlie Barr : You got us wrong. We're not as bad as people say.

  Marsha Mitchell : No, you're worse. Give me the key, Lucy.

  Charlie Barr : Like I said, the Klan does a lot of good around here.

  Marsha Mitchell : l've seen what the Klan does.

• Charlie Barr : This woman is to be punished. She has defied the power and majesty of the Klan. She must be taught a lesson, unless she relents. For the last time, will you obey the Klan?

• Charlie Barr : Get it straight. You say it was the Klan, and I promise you he'll hang. Give them something to go on and they'll be howling for blood. And if it comes to that, he's their meat.