Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Anne Francis: Liz Wirth

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• Liz Wirth : [going to be shot by Smith]  I did everything you said!

  Reno Smith : You two started out in a car and that's the way you're gonna end up - over a cliff, burning! You can blame Macreedy for that, he said I had too many witnesses.

  Liz Wirth : But why me? Why start with me?

  Reno Smith : I gotta start with somebody.

• [after Liz provided directions to Komoko's farm to Macreedy, who gave her $10] 

  Reno Smith : You shouldn't have done that.

  Liz Wirth : I thought it would be better if he went out there and got done with it. What can he find out? I wouldn't do anything to hurt you, Reno, you know that.

  Reno Smith : This is liable to be the hardest ten dollars you ever earned in your life.

• Liz Wirth : Things change.

  John J. Macreedy : Sure do. And Smith is the kid who changes 'em, isn't he?... What's wrong with this town of yours, Miss Wirth?

  Liz Wirth : I don't want to get involved.

  John J. Macreedy : Involved in what?

  Liz Wirth : Whatever you're up to. Whatever happens, I've got to go on living in this town. These people are my neighbors, my friends.

  John J. Macreedy : ALL of 'em?

  Liz Wirth : This is my town, Mr. Macreedy, like it or not.

  John J. Macreedy : Well, if you don't like it, why do you stick around?

  Liz Wirth : My brother Pete, he'd never leave.

  John J. Macreedy : Didn't it ever occur to you that you might leave without him? You look like a pretty independent young lady. Your brother seems to me...

  Liz Wirth : Weak. Yeah, I know. That's why I couldn't leave him.

  John J. Macreedy : What did your brother do?

  Liz Wirth : What do you care? What do you care about Black Rock?

  John J. Macreedy : I don't care anything about Black Rock. Only it just seems to me that there aren't many towns like this in America. But one town like it is enough and because I think something kind of bad happened here, Miss Wirth, something I can't quite seem to find the handle to.

  Liz Wirth : You don't know what you're talking about.

  John J. Macreedy : Well, I know this much: the rule of law has left here and the gorillas have taken over.

• Liz Wirth : What did you do to get Pete to change his mind? Beat him up?

  John J. Macreedy : No. No muscle.

  Liz Wirth : And not with brains, either; he's a pushover for a muscle man.