McCloud (TV Series)

Portrait of a Dead Girl (1970)

Dennis Weaver: Sam McCloud

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Quotes 

• Truck driver : [McCloud is walking in the middle of the road with handcuffs on]  Trying to get killed, Mack?

  Sam McCloud : I need a lift!

  Truck driver : With those handcuffs? Good luck!

  Sam McCloud : Look, I'm a peace officer, got a badge in my pocket.

  Truck driver : Sure, and I got the Mets in my glove compartment.

• Chris Coughlin : The, eh, teargas blew, the witness flew and not a shot was fired.

  Sam McCloud : Sounds like something you'd sing around a camp fire.

  Chris Coughlin : By golly, you're right. 'The Ballad of James Otis Waldron'.

• Sam McCloud : Now look, Miss Coughlin, where I come from, we listen to Country & Western radio stations. But in between we get what they call news cast, where we primitives pick up on big city shucks like bestsellers and possible sale of movie rights.

• Sam McCloud : [getting a drink in a limo]  We don't have too many mobile, eh, juice fixtures out our way.

• Receptionist : I see you have the book.

  Sam McCloud : [picks up Chris Coughlin's book]  Oh yeah, yeah, you betcha.

  Receptionist : She mentions my name in it.

  Sam McCloud : Stop by for your autograph.

• Chris Coughlin : You're biological clock is three hours out of wack.

  Sam McCloud : That's the first time I've ever heard it called that.

  Chris Coughlin : I'll come back when you're spring's all wound up.

• Whitman : How are you, Marshal?

  Sam McCloud : About even.

• Sam McCloud : [facing a group of reporters]  Now you fellows are just too good at your jobs. What I'm trying to say is nothing, but you just keep pulling it out of me.

• Sam McCloud : [about Broadhurst]  He's gonna be madder than a scolded owl.

• Sam McCloud : Now you can close it up as tight as you want to, officially, but unofficially, and off the record and if you insist, off base, I'm in this to the bitter bottom dregs.