Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

Walter Burke: Fred Johnson

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• [Jason is inquiring about the job of sheriff] 

  Jason McCullough : Well, gentlemen, I think it's only fair to tell you that I'd only be interested in this job on a temporary basis.

  Henry Jackson : Oh?

  Jason McCullough : Well, you see, actually I was on my way to Australia when I heard about your gold strike and I decided to, uh, travel through here and see if I couldn't pick myself up a little stake.

  Thomas Devery : What do you want to go to Australia for?

  Jason McCullough : Well, it's the last of the frontier country. Thought I might like to do a little pioneering.

  Fred Johnson : I thought this was frontier country and we was pioneers.

  Henry Jackson : So did I.

• Jason McCullough : Gentlemen, do we have a jail here?

  Mayor Olly Perkins : Do we have a jail? A brand new one with two cells that the whole community pitched in and built last month!

  Fred Johnson : Just like a barn raising.

  Henry Jackson : Even the dancehall girls showed up. They made sandwiches and carried on like crazy.

  Mayor Olly Perkins : It was designed to be practically escape proof.

  Jason McCullough : Well, good, because I think I'm going to have to throw a couple of people in it.

  Mayor Olly Perkins : There's only one thing. This new jail is sure got everything.

  Fred Johnson : Even a new stove with a coffee pot already on it.

  Mayor Olly Perkins : The only thing it hasn't got is iron bars for the cells.

• Fred Johnson : I heard that the sheriff was gonna leave town.

  Henry Jackson : I did too, And at the time I heard it, I remember saying to myself, "That sheriff has his head set squarely on his shoulders."

  Prudy : Well, now he's NOT gonna leave town.

  Mayor Ollie Perkins : And I'd like to get my hands on whoever it was that caused him to change his mind.

  Henry Jackson : Me too. Man with that good an idea oughta be encouraged to hold on to it.

  Prudy : What is the matter with all of you? Don't you remember how long we waited to find a man who'd stand up to the Danbys? Don't you remember what this town was like before - murderings, lynchings, miners shooting up the town day and night?

  Fred Johnson : And aside from the few things that you just mentioned, it wasn't a bad place at all!

• Henry Jackson : I'd like to remind everyone we're here to consign the remains of Millard Frymore.

  Fred Johnson : It's gold, Henry.

  Henry Jackson : Gold?

  Fred Johnson : Down there in the grave.

  Henry Jackson : Well, let's get this coffin out of the way and have a look.

• Henry Jackson : Now just because we've lost three sheriffs don't mean we're going to lose four.

  Fred Johnson : Our luck is bound to change.

  Mayor Olly Perkins : What about his luck?