Cimarron Strip (TV Series)

The Search (1967)

Joseph Cotten: Nathan Tio

Quotes 

• Nathan Tio : You really think I'm worth shooting?

  Clo Vardeman : I wouldn't waste the lead on you. You're already cracked at the seams and you're hollow inside.

  Nathan Tio : Vivid images, probably quite accurate. Little wonder you inspire such respect - or is it simply fear? Fear of blind, unreasoning, brute force. Just a thought, Vardeman.

• Nathan Tio : He's not the first man to be killed in the West, nor will he be the last. And that, my dear Miss Coopersmith, is a truth as bald as the mountains and as bare as the desert.

  Dulcey Coopersmith : How can a man like you talk about the truth?

  Nathan Tio : This is a land of truth. You have come out here as serene and starched and fresh from Sunday school and set up a tea room in the middle of a bonfire, and Crown has coddled you into believing it could be done. Well, welcome to the West, Miss Coopersmith. You have been dreaming in the lion's den and now the lion is dead and this is the day of the jackal.