Border Law (1931)
Buck Jones: Jim Houston
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Quotes
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[Thunder accidentally flips a flapjack into the campfire]
Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : Tastes better if you catch 'em.
Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : Son, I've made seven million of these flapjacks and that ain't happened to but nine of 'em.
Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : What of it?
Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : Bad luck, that's what. Whenever I miss a flapjack it means trouble - and plenty of it!
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Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : Well, what are we waitin' for?
Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : Aw, keep your shirt on. Be suicide to start a shootin' match now. Besides, we want 'em all. We're takin' 'em back with us.
Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : Yeah, but how?
Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : I don't know. I've got to think.
Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : With what?
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'Pegleg' Barnes : See that there limb?
[holds up his peg leg]
'Pegleg' Barnes : That comes from the tree where Sitting Bull used to sit.
Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : No!
'Pegleg' Barnes : Come by my barber shop and I'll give you everything from a haircut to a bath.
Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : Thanks, pardner. I'll take the haircut, but you can give him
[Thunder]
Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : the bath.
Thunder Rogers, Texas Ranger : Aw, I ain't dirty.
Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : I suppose that's sunburn, huh?
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[Jim has been wounded in a gunfight]
Tonita : Are you shot, Jimmy?
Jim Houston, Texas Ranger : Only half shot, honey.