L'homme de la loi (1971)

Lee J. Cobb: Vincent Bronson

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• Vincent Bronson, Town Boss : We buried brother Jacob here. I had a brother Aaron beside him. They had enough of guns and killing. The dead don't have much.

• Vincent Bronson, Town Boss : I don't like men sweatin' fear in my house!

  Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan : [taking offense]  You pay me, Mr. Bronson, and I eat your dirt, but that don't make what you say right!

• Vincent Bronson, Town Boss : Vern, did you feel the world turn beneath your feet?

• Vincent Bronson, Town Boss : It took guns to get the land, guns to keep it, guns to make things grow. The guns that pride called out... and each time we buried the cost.

• Vincent Bronson, Town Boss : What do you want to do - ride into Sabbath and gun him down? Those days have passed. Times have changed. There are other ways. You buy him, and if he doesn't sell, you buy the man above him. Those killing days were for younger men.

• Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan : Some men just go to things in a straight line, Mr. Bronson. They don't bend and they don't trade.

  Vincent Bronson, Town Boss : Are you telling me Maddox is like that?

  Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan : He's got the mark.

  Harvey Stenbaugh : That's too bad. Then he's going to buy himself a lot of pain.

• Vincent Bronson, Town Boss : Fine people, the Commanches. Don't ever listen to anyone who talks down an Indian.

• Vincent Bronson, Town Boss : The great Cotton Ryan... you were good with a gun once, oh, you were beautiful. But Fort Bliss was a long time ago, wasn't it, Ryan?