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The Man from Laramie (1955) More at IMDbPro »

Chris Boldt: Well, you strike me as a man that's looking for something and willing to pay for it.
Will Lockhart: Well, that depends upon what the information is and who's selling it.
Chris Boldt: Well, I ain't got no references. But anybody can tell you that Chris Boldt is a man not to be trusted. That means nobody's secrets are sacred with me.
Will Lockhart: Uh, huh. And just who were you figuring on selling out?
Chris Boldt: You just name 'em!
Will Lockhart: It wouldn't be *me*, would it?

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Will Lockhart: You're just a hard, scheming old woman, aren't you?
Kate Canady: Ugly, too.

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Sheriff Tom Quigby: It's your neck, Lockhart. If you want a Christian funeral, you'd better leave some money with the undertaker.

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Dave Waggoman: They're grazing on Barb land, aren't they?
Vic Hansbro: So they're eating a mouthful of grass! We got plenty growing around here.
Dave Waggoman: Alec always says: a steer swallows a mouthful of Barb grass, it becomes a Barb steer.

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Will Lockhart: Where'd an Indian get a rifle like that?
Frank Darrah: He don't say. I don't ask.

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[first lines]
Will Lockhart: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa. We'll camp here for the night.
Charley O'Leary: We can go a coupla more miles 'fore sundown.
Will Lockhart: We'll camp here!
Charley O'Leary: You're the boss.

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Barbara Waggoman: Did you have any trouble getting here?
Will Lockhart: No, we came from Laramie.
Barbara Waggoman: Oh, is that your home?
Will Lockhart: No, ma'am. No, I can't rightly say anyplace is my home.
Barbara Waggoman: Oh, but everybody should have a place to remember and feel they belong to.
Will Lockhart: Well, I-I always feel like I belong... where I am.

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Vic Hansbro: I'm sorry about this. I figured you'd kinda have your bellyful of these parts and would be anxious to get out of here.
Will Lockhart: Yeah, well, I figure this place owes me somethin' and I'm gonna make it pay.
Vic Hansbro: Let me straighten you out, mister. We got enough trouble around here with the Apaches and young Dave. Now don't you go startin' any!

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Charley O'Leary: I liked workin' for you Mr. Lockhart; I sorta hate to leave ya.
Will Lockhart: Well, maybe this won't be the kind of work you like.
Charley O'Leary: If it's got anything to do with who's sellin' repeating rifles to the Apaches, I'd like to help you.

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Will Lockhart: What are you stickin' your neck out for, Charley?
Charley O'Leary: I'm a lonely man, Mr. Lockhart; so are you. I don't suppose we spoke ten words comin' down here, but I feel that I know ya, and I like what I know.

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Will Lockhart: This is the most unfriendly country I've ever been in. Why is everybody so touchy?
Barbara Waggoman: It's a one man country and Alec Waggoman's the man.

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Alec Waggoman: I'm Alec Waggoman of the Barb. What's the reason for this?
Will Lockhart: Ask your son!
Alec Waggoman: I'm asking you.
Will Lockhart: All right, go out to the salt lagoons, and you'll see twelve dead mules and three burnt wagons. They belong to me!
Alec Waggoman: Nobody asked you to come here.
Will Lockhart: Well, I'm here, Mr. Waggoman, and I'm gonna stay here and this town better get used to the idea!

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Will Lockhart: [having a wound dressed] Have you done this before?
Kate Canady: I've patched up bullet holes in places I wouldn't like to mention.

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