The Tall Man (TV Series)
The Legend of Billy (1961)
Berry Kroeger: Dean Almond
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Quotes
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Dean Almond : I'm a journalist - feature correspondent for the New York Weekly. I'm making a special trip up this way from El Paso.
Billy the Kid : Well, there ain't nothin' that happens in Lincoln worth writin' about.
Dean Almond : I'm doing a series - 'Great Bad Men of the West'. Grand opportunity to make a name for myself... good as Ned Buntline, Mark Twain or any of that lot.
Billy the Kid : Well, there ain't no great bad men in these parts, Mister.
Dean Almond : Did you ever hear of a young hothead calls himself, "Billy the Kid"?
Billy the Kid : Yeah, yeah. I almost forgot about him.
Dean Almond : They say he was jailed for the first time at the tender age of fourteen - imagine that - for killing a mining engineer named Frank Douglas... but he got out of that by pretending to the jailer's daughter that he was in love with her. Imagine a fourteen year old boy!
Billy the Kid : Don't you believe it.
Dean Almond : What?
Billy the Kid : No, that wasn't his first killing.
Dean Almond : Really?
Billy the Kid : No, no, not by a long shot - not unless you don't count the Mexicans and Indians.
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[Emerson is inquiring about the murderous exploits of Billy the Kid]
Dean Almond : Maybe you could fill me in on the details. Do you know him well?
Billy the Kid : Me?
Dean Almond : Yes, I mean...
Billy the Kid : Well you might say I know him about as well as any.
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[introducing a saloon girl and the town drunk to Billy Bonney]
Dean Almond : This is Miss Carlotta, whose unchristian name I never troubled to ask. This is Billy the Kid, a household word as it were, to 200,000 readers of the New York Weekly. And of course you know Jerrod Cobb, celebrated gunfighter late of the Pinkerton organization. You wouldn't say he looked the part of a swashbuckling triggerhand would you, but I assure you, Billy, appearances can by mighty deceiving.