Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)

Gene Autry: Gene Autry

Quotes 

• Gene Autry : I suppose you feel all right now that you've won another range war and become more crippled up than ever.

• Gene Autry : What's the fellow wanted for, Sheriff?

  Sheriff Manton : Murder! If you see him, shoot first and shoot straight.

• Dr. Parker : You mean you're the son of the local cattle baron and we'd have played this town without telling me?

  Gene Autry : Why should I?

  Dr. Parker : What a fine partner you're turning out to be. Think of the ballyhoo: "Son of cattle king returns to share his triumphs with friends of his childhood." Why, we'll sell another twenty gallons at least.

• Smiley : You better keep this

  [Harry's pistol] 

  Smiley : in case he wakes up.

  Gene Autry : I don't need it. He's a friend of mine.

  Smiley : In that case, I'll keep it. We may meet some more friends of yours.

• [Gene is treating Harry's gunshot wounds] 

  Gene Autry : Is that dope you sell really good for anything, Doc?

  Dr. Parker : What? Doctor Parker's painless panacea is compounded from the healing roots and herbs brewed from the formula of a Kickapoo Indian chief whose daughter...

  Gene Autry : I've heard that forty times a day for six months, but is it really good for anything?

  Dr. Parker : Well, it won't hurt him any, but maybe we'd better get the iodine.

• Gene Autry : I don't blame you for running away after the way you didn't answer my letters. All is forgiven. You look just the same, except for the frown. How come you stopped writing anyway?

  Janet Brooks : Well, you see, I didn't think it was just right to go on after I...

  [Janet indicates her wedding ring] 

• Gene Autry : Hadn't you better introduce me to your friend?

  Jerry Brooks : Do you mean you don't know me? Why, I'm Jerry, Janet's little sister!

  Gene Autry : The little freckle-faced kid that never could keep her stockings up?

  Jerry Brooks : Uh-huh.

  Gene Autry : I can't believe it! I don't know whether to kiss you or spank you.

  Jerry Brooks : Don't you think I'm a little old to spank?

  Gene Autry : I suppose you are. And it's probably a little too public to, ah, well anyway, it's too public.