Ride the High Country (1962)

Joel McCrea: Steve Judd

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• Steve Judd : All I want is to enter my house justified.

• Gil Westrum : Don't worry about? about anything. I'll take care of it, just like you would have.

  Steve Judd : Hell, I know that. I always did... You just forgot it for a while, that's all.

• Elsa Knudsen : My father says there's only right and wrong - good and evil. Nothing in between. It isn't that simple, is it?

  Steve Judd : No, it isn't. It should be, but it isn't.

• Steve Judd : I want to know if you rednecked peckerwoods are too chicken-gutted to finish this thing in the open.

• Steve Judd : I don't want them to see this. I'll go it alone.

• Gil Westrum : Cut me loose, Steve!

  Steve Judd : Why?

  Gil Westrum : [Gil holds out his bound outstretched wrists]  Because I don't sleep so good anymore.

• Steve Judd : [Sees Heck carelessly discarding a paper wrapper on the ground]  Pick that up! These mountains don't need your trash.

• Steve Judd : [to Gil as they bed down in the barn]  If my sleeping bothers you, don't bother to let me know it.

• Gil Westrum : [with sarcasm]  Dandy pair of boots you got there.

  Steve Judd : Juan Fernandez made those boots for me in San Antone - special order. I had a hell of a time getting him to put that hole in there. Fine craftsman, Juan, but he never did understand the principle of ventilation.

  Gil Westrum : I remember Juan - always felt the boot should cover the foot.

• Elsa Knudsen : What's gonna happen to him?

  Steve Judd : The boy? I'll testify for him. They shouldn't be too hard.

  Elsa Knudsen : Will you testify for Mr. Westrum?

  Steve Judd : No, I wont.

  Elsa Knudsen : Why?

  Steve Judd : Because he was my friend.

• Steve Judd : [after knocking out Heck with one punch]  When I questioned you about that boy, I should've gone a bit deeper into the subject of character. I hope that's a mistake I won't live to regret.

  Steve Judd : [wryly]  Good fight! I enjoyed it!

• Steve Judd : [Quoting from the Bible]  "The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit. Him that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein."

• Steve Judd : I'm gonna put you behind bars, Gil.

  Gil Westrum : You'll pay hell gettin' it done.

• Steve Judd : [Meeting Joshua Knudsen when they arrive at his farmstead]  We're on our way to Coarse Gold. Wondered if you could furnish accommodations for the night?

  Joshua Knudsen : Well, I've got no room in the house. But I've no objection if you want to spend the night in the barn.

  Steve Judd : Thank you, sir. If you could spare us a few eggs, we'd be glad to pay for them.

  Joshua Knudsen : Well, you can have one, because the Lord's bounty is not for sale... The rest are a dollar each.

  Heck Longtree : [Outraged at the price]  A dollar each! Now how in the world do those short-legged chickens lay eggs so high?

  Joshua Knudsen : [Dourly]  Levity in the young is likened to a dry gourd, with the seeds rattling around.

• Steve Judd : That boy you trained personally shows a substantial lack of judgment.

  Gil Westrum : Kinda' showin' *your* age, aren't ya? Interfering with a young man's love life...

  Steve Judd : Well, I'm not payin' him ten dollars a day to go moonin' after some girl whose old man is about to hind-end him with a load of buckshot.

• Steve Judd : I was drunk - sicker than a dog.