My Darling Clementine (1946)

Walter Brennan: Old Man Clanton

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• Old Man Clanton : When ya pull a gun, kill a man.

• [as Wyatt is leaving the hotel after taking the marshal's job, he meets Clanton and his sons] 

  Wyatt Earp : I'm the fella with the trail herd, remember?

  Old Man Clanton : Oh, sure, I remember you.

  Wyatt Earp : You was right. I didn't get very far with 'em. They was rustled this evening.

  Old Man Clanton : That so? Well, that's too bad.

  [Wyatt starts out the door] 

  Old Man Clanton : I guess you'll be headin' for California, huh?

  Wyatt Earp : No, I figured on stickin' around awhile. Got myself a job.

  Old Man Clanton : Cowpunching?

  Wyatt Earp : Marshalin'.

  Old Man Clanton : Marshalln'? In Tombstone?

  [laughs] 

  Old Man Clanton : Well... good luck to ya, Mister...?

  Wyatt Earp : Earp. Wyatt Earp.

• Wyatt Earp : Sure is rough-looking country. Ain't no cow country. Mighty different where I come from. What do they call this place?

  Old Man Clanton : Just over the rise there. Big town... called Tombstone.

• [after the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt refuses to shoot Old Man Clanton] 

  Old Man Clanton : My boys... Ike! Sam! Phin! Billy!

  Wyatt Earp : They're dead. I ain't gonna kill you. I hope you live a hundred years... so you'll feel just a little what my pa's gonna feel. Now get out of town - start wandering!

• Old Man Clanton : Wide-awake, wide-open town, Tombstone. You can get anything you want there.