Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Ernest Borgnine: Coley Trimble

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• Coley Trimble : You're a yellow-bellied Jap lover! Am I right or wrong?

  John J. Macreedy : You're not only wrong. You're wrong at the top of your voice.

  Coley Trimble : [gets ready to scrap]  You don't like my voice?

• Coley Trimble : I think Macreedy's a nothin', a nobody. So there's nothin' to worry about. What can he find out?... That Komoko... Suppose he finds out.

  Reno Smith : A nobody like Macreedy can raise a pretty big stink. The point is, who'd miss a nobody like Macreedy if he just, uh, say, disappeared? Who, Coley?

  Pete Wirth : Why don't we wait?... I mean, maybe he won't find anything. Maybe he'll just go away.

  Reno Smith : Not Macreedy. I know those maimed guys. Their minds get twisted. They put on hair-shirts and act like martyrs. All of 'em are do-gooders, freaks, troublemakers.

  Pete Wirth : Let's wait and see. There's no danger yet.

  Reno Smith : No danger, he says. This guy's like a carrier of small pox. Since he's arrived, this town has a fever, an infection, and it's spreading.

• John J. Macreedy : Your friend's a very... argumentative fellow.

  Reno Smith : Sort of unpredictable, too. Got a temper like a rattlesnake.

  Coley Trimble : That's me all over. I'm half horse, half alligator - you mess with me and I'll kick a lung outta' ya! What d'ya think of that?

  John J. Macreedy : No comment.

  Coley Trimble : You know, talkin' to you is like pullin' teeth. You wear me out.

• Coley Trimble : You ought to be careful, man - all that one-arm driving.

  John J. Macreedy : I'd be glad to pay the damages.

  Coley Trimble : It's a threat to life and limb!