Stagecoach (1939)

George Bancroft: Marshal Curley Wilcox

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Quotes 

• Marshal Curly Wilcox : Come busting in here - you'd think we were being attacked! You can find another wife.

  Chris : Sure I can find another wife. But she take my rifle and my horse. Oh, I'll never sell her. I love her so much. I beat her with a whip and she never get tired.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Your wife?

  Chris : No, my horse. I can find another wife easy, yes, but not a horse like that!

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization.

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Yeah.

  [laughs] 

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Doc, I'll buy you a drink.

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Just one.

• [the stagecoach occupants vote on whether to continue without a cavalry escort] 

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : You, Doc?

  Dr. Josiah Boone : I'm not only a philosopher, sir, I'm a fatalist. Somewhere, sometime, there may be the right bullet or the wrong bottle waiting for Josiah Boone. Why worry when or where?

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Yes or no?

  Dr. Josiah Boone : Having that philosophy, sir, I've always courted danger. During the late war - when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln... and General Phil Sheridan - well, sir, I fought mid shot and shell and cannon roar...

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Do you wanna go back or not?

  Dr. Josiah Boone : No! I want another drink.

• Buck : Well, Marshal, I'm lookin' for my shotgun guard. Is he here?

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Out with a posse, Buck. Trying to catch the Ringo Kid.

  Buck : Ringo? I thought Ringo was in the pen?

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : He was.

  Buck : Busted out? Well, good for him!

• [Lt. Blanchard has just informed the stagecoach occupants that the cavalry will not escort them to Lordsburg] 

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : This stage is going to Lordsburg. If you think it ain't safe to ride along with us, I figure we can get there without you soldier boys.

• Marshal Curly Wilcox : Now folks, if we push on we can be in Apache Wells by sundown. Soldiers there will give us an escort as far as the ferry. Then it's only a hoot and a holler into Lordsburg. We got four men who can handle firearms - five with you, Ringo. Doc can shoot if sober.

• Buck : If I was you, I'd let them shoot it out.

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Let who?

  Buck : Luke Plummer and the Kid. There would be a lot more peace in this territory if that Luke Plummer had so many holes in him he couldn't hold his liquor.

• [the stagecoach occupants are voting whether or not to continue without a cavalry escort] 

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : How 'bout you, Mr. Hancock?

  Samuel Peacock : Peacock. I'd like to go on, brother. I want to reach the bosom of my dear family in Kansas City, Kansas as quickly as possible; but, I may never reach that bosom if we go on... so, under the circumstances - you understand, brother - I think it best we go back with the bosoms... I mean the soldiers.

• Buck : If I was you I'd let 'em shoot it out.

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : Let who?

  Buck : Luke Plummer and the Kid. There'd be a lot more peace in this territory if that Luke Plummer was so full of lead he couldn't hold his liquor.

  Marshal Curly Wilcox : I ain't sayin' I don't share your sentiments, Buck. But you're a born fool!

  Buck : Oh, I know that.