The Spikes Gang (1974)

Gary Grimes: Will

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• Will Young : We sure didn't mean nothing like this to come of it. We didn't desire to commit murder. It just kinda ran away from us.

  Harry Spikes : Well, we all started out as somethin' else, way back.

• [Tod has been severely wounded during a bank robbery] 

  Harry Spikes : I don't know when I liked a boy so much. He was never noisy... never rude. A born gentleman by nature. Well, let's hope the ground that covers his grave will always be green.

  Will Young : He's not dead yet!

  Harry Spikes : He's a goner. Say goodbye and let's go.

• [the Spikes Gang was forced to shoot an old outlaw] 

  Will Young : He was nearly as old as my grandfather! He had a safety pin holding up his pants!

  Harry Spikes : Son, where there ain't foolishness in life, there's misery. But, we got to hold ourselves together, somehow, or we would always be crying.

• Woman : What do you want?

  Will Young : Oh, we was wondering if we could do some chores in exchange for a dollar. Swill your pigs, clean out your barn... whatever you say.

  Woman : You can scat! I don't hire saddle tramps!

  Les Richter : Ain't you heard, lady? Money is like manure: it's only good when you spread it around.

• Sissy - Tod's little sister : [to Will, who is delivering a letter from Tod]  My daddy says you're trash.

  Will Young : Well, that's up to him.

• [Spikes gets ready to leave Tod, who has been severely wounded] 

  Harry Spikes : I'd stay by his side if I thought it would do him any good and me no harm. But that ain't the way it lies.

  Will Young : Don't you care nothing for him? You just said you did!

  Harry Spikes : I've left men dead behind me. I've left men dying behind me. And I've left 'em calling my name. What you do is shut your ears and close your eyes and run like hell. If you boys were older and been in it longer, you'd know that's the only way to live.

• Will Young : Mr. Spikes is never broke. He's never hungry, either.

  Tod Hayhew : What made you think of him all of a sudden?

  Will Young : Looking at that bank. You know what he would do if he was in our shoes? He'd walk in that bank, pull out his gun and say, "It's all baloney, so slice me some!".