Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

Harry Morgan: Olly Perkins

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• Mayor Ollie Perkins : I wanted you to meet my daughter, Sheriff. She's a good cook, a mighty fine looking girl. Takes after her dear, departed mother.

  Jason McCullough : Mother died, huh?

  Mayor Ollie Perkins : Nope, she just departed.

• Jason McCullough : [Fingering dented badge]  That must have saved the life of whoever was wearin' it.

  Mayor Olly Perkins : Well, it sure would have, if it hadn't been for all them other bullets flyin' in from everywhere.

• Mayor : Our last sheriff was a good organizer. Yellow clear through, but a good organizer.

• 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.

• Mayor Olly Perkins : You interested in the job of sheriff?

  Jason McCullough : Oh, maybe. How much does it pay?

  Townsman : Well, none of our sheriffs ever lived long enough to find out.

• 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!

• Mayor Olly Perkins : You ain't wanted for anything anywhere are you Mr. McCullough. Not that it matters, because we understand how them little things can happen.

• Mayor Olly Perkins : That must have been some show you put on at the saloon this afternoon. It kind of sobered up the whole town.

  Jason McCullough : Well, that's good.

  Mayor Olly Perkins : Maybe... maybe not. It has been a lot of fun around here up to now. I mean, everything all kind of wide-open and relaxed. Nobody looking down their noses at anybody who happened to shoot someone else. Nobody poking their noses into nobody else's business without them getting their big noses blasted off in the process. Ah, I guess now that we got law and order, chuches will start moving in.

  Jason McCullough : Yeah, that's usually the next thing that happens.

  Mayor Olly Perkins : And then the women will start forming committees and having bazaars. And then they'll chase Madame Orr's girls out of town, or make them get married, or something even worse. But, what the hell, like you said, the law's the law, and we got to face up to it sometime.

  Jason McCullough : When did I say that?

• Mayor Ollie Perkins : I guess you know what you're doing, Sheriff.

  Jason McCullough : I don't know what I could have said to give you that idea, Mayor.

• Mayor Ollie Perkins : She's a rich little old gal in her own name, Sheriff. Sole owner of the Millard Frymore Memorial Mining Company.

  Jason McCullough : You meanin' whoever marries her gets the mine.

  Mayor Ollie Perkins : Shaft and all!

• Prudy : I said it before and I'll say it again: The men in this town are nothin' but a bunch of lowdown, miserable, cowardly curs!

  Mayor Ollie Perkins : As your father, I may have to take that kind of talk from you; but as the mayor of this town I sure as hell don't. Throw her out, boys... and don't be too gentle with her!

• Mayor Olly Perkins : [talking about Prudy]  She's had some terrible shocks this year. She got wealthy almost overnight - I think maybe it unhinged her a little bit. Then she was always kind of big for her age and "pooberty" hit her hard - that'll do it you know.

  Jason McCullough : I didn't know that.

  Mayor Olly Perkins : Well, it will!

  [after more conversation with the mayor, Jason is leaving the house and looks up the stairs to where Prudy ran off] 

  Jason McCullough : "Pooberty"

• 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?

• Jason McCullough : You meaning, whoever marries her gets the mine?

  Mayor Ollie Perkins : Shaft and all.