1.I don’t understand you. No matter what you say. If Kane was my man, I’d never leave him like this. I’d get a gun. I’d fight. 2.Why don’t you? 1.He is not my man. He’s yours.
Don’t try to be a hero! You don’t have to be a hero, not for me!
I knew you had guts but I never figured you for brains. It takes a pretty smart man to know when to back away.
I mean it! If you won’t go with me now, I’ll be on that train when it leaves here.
Kane will be a dead man in half an hour and nobody’s gonna do anything about it. And when he dies, this town dies too. I can feel it. I am all alone in the world. I have to make a living. So I’m going someplace else. That’s all.
People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don’t care. They just don’t care.
The commandments say ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ but we hire men to go out and do it for us. The right and the wrong seem pretty clear here. But if you’re asking me to tell my people to go out and kill and maybe get themselves killed, I’m sorry. I don’t know what to say. I’m sorry.
This is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens here is really important.
Well, whaddya want? Do you want me to get killed? Do you want to be a widow, is that what you want?
You’re a good-looking boy: you’ve big, broad shoulders. But he’s a man. And it takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man.
And in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dusty street. For
what? For a tin star? It’s all for nothing, Will. It’s all for
nothing.
High noon.
I’ve got to. That’s the whole thing.
Quit pushing me, Harv. I’m tired of being pushed.
Seems like all everybody and his brother wants is to get me out of town.
Soon as you walk through that door! Come on…I’ll hold my fire.
The judge has left town, Harvey’s quit, and I’m having’ trouble getting deputies.
The public doesn’t give a damn about integrity. A town that won’t defend itself deserves no help.
To be opened in the event of my death.
You’re asking me to wait an hour to find out if I’m going to be a wife or a widow.
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