One Foot in Hell (1960)

Alan Ladd: Mitch Barrett

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• [discussing the man Mitch, unknown to the rancher, murdered] 

  Rancher : Sorry, Mitch. I know how you felt about Ole.

  Mitch : No, I don't think so. No one will ever know that.

• Mitch : You know, I read something a long time ago: Follow the rainbow... but don't wait for the gold to be in it.

  Dan : Look for the silver in between. Yeah, I know - I went to school once, too. Say, what are you? Are you some kind of do-gooder or something? You want to save my soul, Mister?

  Mitch : No, I want a few men with anger and guts enough to follow that rainbow and grab a pot full of gold - not petty silver in-between.

• Dan : You know somethin'? The way you plan things, sorta slow and careful - you must want that money real bad.

  Mitch : Not as much as I once wanted a dollar and eighty-seven cents.

• [Mitch points his pistol at Sheriff Olson] 

  Sheriff Olson : Mitch, don't. You're crazy! You don't-you don't know what you're doing!

  Mitch : Ellie screamed. Why don't you scream?

• Mitch : Well, everything's set on his end. Now we tie up the other end.

  Dan : Where's that?

  Mitch : The border - Royce City.

  Dan : That hellhole? There's nothing there but lice!

  Mitch : That's what we're looking for, isn't it - human lice?

  Dan : Present company not excepted?

• Mitch : My name's Mitch Barrett. I'd like to talk to you.

  Stu Christian : Don't recall askin' to listen.

  Mitch : You'll listen and be glad you did for twenty thousand in gold.

  Stu Christian : Mister, when you talk, you talk big!

• Julia Reynolds : We're in love. That's what he went into town to tell you. When he finds out you're not there, he'll come back, Mitch.

  Mitch : He'll find out other things, too. Stu and Ivers are dead.

  Julia Reynolds : Dead! How? With you leading the posse, Mitch, how?

  Mitch : With me leading the posse.

• Dan : How are you going to live now? How are you going to live without anybody to hate?

  Mitch : I got a hundred thousand dollars. I don't need anybody.