One Foot in Hell (1960)

Don Murray: Dan Keats

Quotes 

• Dan : My folks worked their lives tryin' to make somethin' out of a lot of worn-out dirt that nobody else would spit on.

• 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 : If you got enough whiskey, you don't need to dream about things not worth dreamin'.

• 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 : 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?

• Stu Christian : Looks like a real rough trip for you, don't it, gray belly? No whiskey, no women.

  Dan : I bet when you were a kid you were tops in your town - you know, with a crayon - drawing dirty things on nice, clean walls.

  Harry Ivers : Felicitations, gentlemen. An outstanding piece of repartee.

• Dan : Do you have to come bargin' in here like that?

  Julia Reynolds : What do you want, me to whistle six bars of "Dixie"?

  Dan : I'm sorry. I guess that all waitin' and no whiskey makes Dan a dull boy.

• 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.

• [last lines] 

  Julia Reynolds : Tell me about Virginia again, Dan. What will it be like?

  Dan : That's goin' to take time, Julie, a lot of time. Not even Doc Seltzer can walk that slow.