Cimarron Strip (TV Series)
Journey to a Hanging (1967)
John Saxon: Screamer
Quotes
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[the sound of Marshal Crown's pistol cocking behind him ends Screamer's drunken binge]
The Screamer : Howdy, Marshal. Do you want to play?
Marshal Jim Crown : The game's over, Screamer.
The Screamer : Then you may as well shoot me and put me out of my misery.
Marshal Jim Crown : I'm going to do worse than that. I'm going to improve your character.
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The Screamer : I can night track! I got eyes like a cat. I can track day or night, across slate or granite, moon or inside your hat. You better count me in!
Marshal Jim Crown : You?
The Screamer : Who else you got?
MacGregor : Me!
The Screamer : You couldn't track a cockroach through a puddle of beer.
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Marshal Jim Crown : [to Rocky, who is lying on his back in a jail cell, smoking a cigar] Well, I've got ya. And I'm gonna put your name on a pine box when the judge gets through with ya. Unless you tell me who bossed that bank job.
Rocky : You'll get nothing from me.
The Screamer : You'll get something from me, though, Crown.
Marshal Jim Crown : [to Screamer] If you're lucky, maybe Rocky will read you a bedtime story.
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The Screamer : Now, Marshal, you ain't told me the charge, eh? What's the charge?
Marshal Jim Crown : Stampedin' chickens on the Sabbath.
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The Screamer : You ever face me man to man, you're gonna be black, blue and bloody red all over.
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The Screamer : Screamer, you ain't never gonna amount to anythin' in this world...
[shoots Coffin from behind, saving Crown]
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Marshal Jim Crown : [Inspects Rocky's body, then makes his way over to Screamer, who is sitting nervously in his cell] I bet you were asleep all the time.
The Screamer : Yeah, it's what I was. I know I gone 'n dreamed, too.
Marshal Jim Crown : Didn't see a thing?
The Screamer : P-prettiest girls all dancin' round.
Marshal Jim Crown : Recognised nobody?
The Screamer : Yeah, one. Little filly used to twirl back in the harvest eve. Hair as wild as a mustang's tail.
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Marshal Jim Crown : What do you need all that money for, anyway? You been gettin' along all right?
The Screamer : [dazed from his leg injury] Uh, none o' yer business.
Marshal Jim Crown : I guess maybe you're right.
[Screamer feels like he should tell Crown]
The Screamer : I... I need that m... I want... I want... that mon...
Marshal Jim Crown : A ranch?
The Screamer : Huh? Nooo, not barbed wire...
Marshal Jim Crown : A saddle shop?
The Screamer : No-o-o... I wanna become respectable. I wanna buy a nice... little saloon... with big mirrors on the wall an' nice pictures. An'... shiny brass cuspidors and curtains.
[He wistfully laughs a little to himself]
The Screamer : I wanna stand by the door and... g'z out scores to my buddies when they come in, and... wear a striped silk shirt and... pearl gray derby... have a... gold watch, and... diamond stick pin in cufflinks... big red ruby ring for my... little finger...
[Screamer faints]
Marshal Jim Crown : And patent leather slippers.
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The Screamer : [to himself] You blockhead! You had $10,000 served up to you like a birthday cake and you shoot like a blind bedbug!
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[Crown tends to an injured MacGregor by a boulder near Coffin's hideout. Screamer rushes in]
The Screamer : Hey, what are we hangin' round for? Let's get after 'im!
Marshal Jim Crown : I told you to wait for my signal.
The Screamer : I couldn't help myself. I had a clear shot at him.
[Screamer notices Crown's expression, realizes his mistake and turns away, nervously]
Marshal Jim Crown : At who?
The Screamer : Well, how would I know? One of those owl-hooters.
[pause]
The Screamer : He spotted me. It was either me or him.