Hour of the Gun (1967)

Jason Robards: Doc Holliday

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Quotes 

• Dr. Charles Goodfellow : I can't understand why I never win.

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : You don't play very well. Besides that, you never cheat.

• Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Well, you got the first gun for your posse.

  Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : Did you hear the part about "no funds available"?

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : I hear the Chamber of Commerce has put up $20,000 reward money.

  Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : For arrest and conviction, not dead or alive. Not your style, Doc.

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : For that kind of money, I can be as law abiding as, ah, you are.

• Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : You gonna be all right?

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Except for a slight dying spell.

• Denver doctor : You know, you don't have to get well to please me. I'm used to people dying on me.

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : So am I.

• [the judge has just thrown out the murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral] 

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Well, shooting you from the front side didn't work. Next time he'll try it from the back.

• [the mortally wounded Morgan Earp whispers in Wyatt's ear] 

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : What did he say?

  Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : When we were kids, we used to argue about whether when you were dying, your whole life flashed in front of you or not. He said, "It ain't so, Wyatt."

• Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Those aren't warrants you have there... those are hunting licenses!

• 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.

• [the murder charges against Clanton's gang have been thrown out] 

  Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : I don't want to hear a word out of you.

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : I'm just educating myself. I've never been on the right side of the law before. I want to see how much good it does you when you are.

• [Wyatt re-introduces Doc to the Tucson sheriff] 

  Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : You know Doc Holliday. Sherm McMasters.

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : You were the arresting officer when I shot Long Nose Ernie here in '74.

  Tucson Sheriff Sherman McMasters : That's right.

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Good to see you.

• Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : I don't care about the rules anymore. I'm not that much of a hypocrite.

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : The whole thing is hypocrisy. The rules they tack on today that unless you're wearing that badge or a soldier's uniform, you can't kill. But they're the only rules there are. They are more important to you than you think. Play it that way, Wyatt, or you'll destroy yourself.

• Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : You got some kind of plan?

  Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : I have.

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Want to tell me about it?

  Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : We take whoever gets in our way.

  Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : You call that a plan?

  Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : You got a better one?