Four Fast Guns (1960)

Edgar Buchanan: Dipper

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• [first lines] 

  Dipper : [narrating]  This man came along the trail one Sunday morning in '73, taking it slow and easy, keeping his eyes open and his gun hand ready. He came from nowhere, I guess. Anyhow, he never said from where and we never asked. He was going to stop off in Purgatory, to make his stand like he lived - alone. This is Number One. He called himself Sabin.

• [after drinking a dipper full of whiskey] 

  Dipper : This foul stuff sure tastes good.

• Dipper : [narrating]  Saban first - this is Number Two... Quijano. He had one of those letters from Hoag in Purgatory.

• Dipper : We had a town meeting after church today I proposed you for marshal, Marshal.

  Tom Sabin : You what?

  Dipper : Now don't get sore. They voted not to.

  Tom Sabin : You do a fool trick like that again and I'll run you out of town! Now get out of here! Get!

  Dipper : Fine thing a fella gettin' thrown out of his own jail.

• Dipper : Marshal Becker's dead!

  Tom Sabin : Well, I guess that takes care of getting any legal action against Hoag. We'll have to handle this ourselves.

  Dipper : What do you mean "we"? I ain't no deputy.

  [Sabin hands Dipper a deputy badge] 

  Tom Sabin : Oil for the door hinges.

• Dipper : Number Three: Johnny Naco. That's Johnny Naco's game; pretendin' to be lazy and careless and slow.

• Dipper : [marratomg]  Number Four: Farmer Brown they called him. He used to gamble down on Larimer Street in Denver. Never carried a gun; never needed one, till one day a young punk shot him in the face. He became a killer - a fast one.

• Dipper : Just a minute - I got somethin' for you.

  [Dipper hands Tom a piece of paper] 

  Tom Sabin : Why don't you learn to spell "resignation"?

  Dipper : Well, I can spell quit!

• [last lines] 

  Dipper : [narrating]  This was in '73, the land of the man with a gun - some fast, others a little faster... one the fastest of them all.