Hour of the Gun (1967)
Bill Fletcher: Jimmy Bryan
Quotes
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County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan : You're under arrest.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : For what?
County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan : Murder
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : Not today, tomorrow or ever. You have no jurisdiction in the city of Tombstone. Even if you did you couldn't make it stick.
Frank Stilwell : We got enough men behind us to make it stick.
[Doc cocks his shotgun]
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Stilwell, if you so much as turn your head towards those men, you'll be laying in the horse manure with your friends.
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Horace Sullivan : Just a moment, Your Honor. I should like to reexamine the defendant.
Horace Sullivan : [as Earp sits in the witness chair] Wyatt, did malice move you against the Clanton group?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : No.
Horace Sullivan : Would you tell the court what did?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : The Clanton group was armed and made threats of death and violence against us. It was our duty as sworn peace officers to disarm and arrest them. I would disarm and arrest General Ulysses S. Grant if he appeared on the streets of Tombstone under those circumstances.
County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan : Wyatt, I told you before you went down to the corral that I had met with the Clanton group and they agreed to leave town peaceably.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : Bryan, you take bribes. You're a thief, a liar, and a disgrace to your office. I wouldn't take your word if you swore to it on your mother's grave.
County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan : You'll live to regret that.
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County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan : [demonstrating what he saw in the shooting] Tom McLowery opening his coat up to his shoulders that he was unarmed! and that's when the Earps and Holliday opened fire.