Walking Tall (1973)

Noah Beery Jr.: Grandpa

Quotes 

• Grandpa Carl Pusser : [to Sherrif Thurman]  You better be rememberin' one thing before election time: the people of this county *give* you that badge, and they can damn well take it *away* from ya!

  Thurman : Not like you to threaten a man, Carl.

  Dr. Lamar Stivers : He doesn't speak only for *himself*, Al.

• Buford : [Discussing the possibility of running for sheriff]  Dad, what do you think are my chances?

  Grandpa Carl Pusser : Fair... I will tell you this, if you run against these people and lose... You'll be worse off then you were before, because you'll never get anybody to stand behind you again.

• Grandpa Carl Pusser : [to Buford as the trial is set to get underway]  They just fished Lutie McVeigh and your car out of the river.

• Grandpa Carl Pusser : [Talking about Buford to Sheriff Thurman]  Yeah, Thurman... Who left him in that ravine to die!... And where's his station wagon?

  Grandpa Carl Pusser : I'm looking into that, Mr. Pusser.

• Buford : [Buford has hired Obra to work at the lumber mill]  Pa?... Pa, you got something against Obra?

  Grandpa Carl Pusser : I knowed him since he was a pickaninny... Hired his old daddy many times.

  Buford : That doesn't tell me anything.

  Grandpa Carl Pusser : Well, he got educated, you see?... Then he came down with a raging case of that new social disease, Black Power.

  Buford : Is that all?

  Buford : Now look, hold on just a minute... I beleive in equality just as much as anybody... But I don't want it forced on me, see?

  Buford : Gonna be a lot of fun working with the two of you.

  [Buford chuckles and walks off]