Dodge City (1939)

Alan Hale: Algernon 'Rusty' Hart

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• Rusty Hart : Well, well. So this is Dodge City, huh? Sort of smells like Fort Worth, don't it?

  Wade Hatton : Oh, that's not the city you smell. That's you! We better get you to a bathtub before somebody shoots you for a buffalo.

• [they're looking at the buffalo herd] 

  Rusty Hart : Lucky devils: nothin' to do but eat and sleep.

  Tex Baird : That's right, hard head. The only difference between you and them is a pair of horns.

• Wade Hatton : William Shakespeare.

  Rusty Hart : I never heard of him. What part of Texas is he from?

  Wade Hatton : [surprised at Rusty's ignorance]  Stratford-on-Avon.

• Tex Baird : I decided to go back to Texas.

  Rusty Hart : What for?

  Tex Baird : Oh, I don't know. This place is getting too big and calm and peaceful-like.

• Wade Hatton : I got a call to make down here, so you're on your own. Now, just try and keep sober and stay out of trouble. Will you?

  Algernon 'Rusty' Hart : Well, Wade, you know I signed the temperance pledge before we left Texas.

  Wade Hatton : Why sure, Rusty, I know that. And I know you were blind drunk when you signed it.

  Algernon 'Rusty' Hart : Oh, no, you're confusing the issue. I'm a re-formed man.

  Wade Hatton : Well, even a reformed man can get into trouble when the boys get paid off.

  Algernon 'Rusty' Hart : No, no! I ain't gonna touch a drop. I'm just gonna mosey around and - take in the sights.

  Wade Hatton : Well, look out you don't become one of them.

• Algernon 'Rusty' Hart : You crazy galoot!

• Algernon 'Rusty' Hart : Them two youngsters is more trouble than they're worth.

  Wade Hatton : I'll certainly be glad to hand them over to their uncle in Dodge.

  Algernon 'Rusty' Hart : Yeah. She sure is pretty, though.

  Wade Hatton : Yes. I'd still trade the two of them for one good cigar.

• Algernon 'Rusty' Hart : Little fella sure was aces.

• Algernon 'Rusty' Hart : Ha, ha! So the lamb killed the butcher!

• Wade Hatton : You can get plenty of men for that job out here, Colonel. I'm getting married next week. Got tickets for New York.

  Algernon 'Rusty' Hart : Oh, shucks, you can get married anytime. We'll even go on your honeymoon with you to Virginia City.

  Wade Hatton : Oh, thanks.

  Tex Baird : Gettin' married has ruined a lot of good men.