Cimarron Strip (TV Series)

The Battleground (1967)

Randy Boone: Francis

Quotes 

• Marshal Jim Crown : Where are they? Forty cowboys are going to chop those settlers into kindling if I don't have the men to stop them. Where are the sheriffs?

  Francis Wilde : Resigned - all five. No deputies available.

• [Francis encourages Jim to market himself as a lawman] 

  Marshal Jim Crown : Doc Crown...

  Francis Wilde : The Legend of Cimarron!

  Marshal Jim Crown : Town Tamer of the West!

  Francis Wilde : Like Masterson...

  Marshal Jim Crown : Cartwright, Ben Thompson...

  Francis Wilde : Stoudenmire, Hickok...

  Marshal Jim Crown : Cartwright was a trigger-happy gun sharp, Ben Thompson was a drunken animal who'd kill on a dare, Stoudenmire liked to club Mexicans to death. They'd make the laws and they'd break 'em. They'd cheat, steal, lie - they trusted no one and no one trusted them. That's the stuff that makes legends. You want a legend? You're going to be part of it. I want deputies!

• Francis Wilde : Well, you, me and him. Us three. Could be worse.

  Marshal Jim Crown : It's gonna be.

• [Jim is not amused by Francis' newspaper article describing the exploits of Marshal 'Doc' Crown] 

  Francis Wilde : Well, that was the deal.

  Marshal Jim Crown : What deal?

  Francis Wilde : You said: I get a legend, you get a deputy.