High Noon (1952)
Gary Cooper: Marshal Will Kane
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Quotes
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[when his Deputy Sheriff, his last hope of help, deserts him]
Marshal Will Kane : Go on home to your kids, Herb.
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Marshal Will Kane : I've got to, that's the whole thing.
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Marshal Will Kane : Don't shove me Harv. I'm tired of being shoved.
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Marshal Will Kane : Stay at the hotel until it's over.
Amy Fowler Kane : No, I won't be here when it's over. You're asking me to wait an hour to find out if I'm going to be a wife or a widow. I say it's too long to wait! I won't do it!
Marshal Will Kane : Amy!
Amy Fowler Kane : I mean it! If you won't go with me now, I'll be on that train when it leaves here.
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[Johnny peers from the back room into Marshal Kane's office. He sees the marshal slumped over at his desk. Muffled sobs can be heard coming from Kane. The marshal hears Johnny come in and looks up at him]
Marshal Will Kane : What do you want?
Johnny : I found them, all but Mr. Henderson.
Marshal Will Kane : I found him, thanks.
Johnny : You're welcome. Marshal, let me fight with you. I ain't afraid.
Marshal Will Kane : No.
Johnny : Please, let me, Marshal!
Marshal Will Kane : You're a kid! You're a baby!
Johnny : I'm sixteen! I can handle a gun, too!
Marshal Will Kane : You're fourteen. What do you wanna lie for?
Johnny : I'm big for my age! Please, Marshal!
Marshal Will Kane : Well, you're big for your age, but no, go on, get out of here.
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Helen Ramírez : [in Spanish] One year without seeing you.
Marshal Will Kane : [in Spanish] Yes, I know.
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Marshal Will Kane : [initially leaving town] This is crazy, I don't even have any guns.
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Marshal Will Kane : Johnny, why aren't you in church?
Johnny : Why aren't you?
[Will raises his hand as if to slap the boy for being disrespectful]
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Marshal Will Kane : Hey, Charlie. You can go home now.
Charlie : [gangly and unkempt, lumbers out of the jail cell, hungover] Thanks, Marshal! Sure appreciate it, certainly do. You don't happen to know if the saloon's open?
Marshal Will Kane : [shoves Charlie's jacket and bowler hat into his arms] I said, go home, Charlie.
Charlie : Yes, sir.
[Charlie darts out the jail door]
