Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series)

The Tender Gun (1960)

Jeanette Nolan: Sheriff Maude J. Smuggly

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• Sheriff Maude J. Smuggly : Well, sir, you ain't much. But I guess you're all I got. You're hired.

• Paladin : Why this valley?

  Sheriff Maude J. Smuggly : Oil. I don't know what they want with it. It poisons the water and kills the fish hereabouts.

  Paladin : Now, Sheriff, a man in the East has found a way to make a steam engine run on oil. And they can make a kind of soap out of it. Why don't you sell?

  Sheriff Maude J. Smuggly : I don't like the way they asked me.

• Paladin : Well, I still don't understand why the town didn't hire a man sheriff.

  Sheriff Maude J. Smuggly : Well, they did. But he had an attack of either under guts or over-bribed and left.

• Sheriff Maude J. Smuggly : Mister, you're just a twitch away from having your head blown off. And I got a nervous tic. You better give me a hatful of words and all at the same time. Now talk.

  Paladin : Talk? I tried to talk through that window over there and almost got a mouth full of buckshot.

  Sheriff Maude J. Smuggly : I didn't have the edge on you then. Who are you? And what do you want?