Goin' South (1978)
Richard Bradford: Sheriff Kyle
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Quotes
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Sheriff Andrew Kyle : Julia, are you drunk?
Julia Tate : Sheriff Kyle, you know I don't drink.
Henry Moon : 'Course she don't drink!
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Julia Tate : I'll take him.
Sheriff Andrew Kyle : Julia, what are you sayin'? He's an outlaw.
Julia Tate : I assumed that's why you're hanging him.
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Sheriff Andrew Kyle : We got this ordinance here, it was passed after the Civil War, on account that a lot of our boys didn't come home - and the women was beginnin' to chew up the grass.
Henry Moon : I feel sorry for the grass.
Sheriff Andrew Kyle : I feel sorry for the women. Anyhow, this ordinance states that any man, short of a murderer, can be saved from the gallows by any property-holdin' female, providin' she decides to marry 'im. And they done that in Roman times too, as I recollect.
Henry Moon : Sweet Jesus H. Christ Almighty!
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Sheriff Andrew Kyle : Now, Mr Moon: No drinkin', no gamblin', no wife-beatin', no alley-cattin', what not nor what have you. You've got to mind her. If you try runnin', there'll be $500 on your head.
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Sheriff Andrew Kyle : What the hell d'you pick him up for, Towfield?
Deputy Towfield : He was dressed up like a Mexican.
Sheriff Andrew Kyle : You can't arrest a man for that.
Deputy Hector : I told him!
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Henry Moon : Burn the breeze, Kyle, or I'm gonna blow everybody in sight into feathers.
Sheriff Andrew Kyle : We don't desert our women out here, Mr Moon.
Julia Tate : It's all right, Sheriff. You go on ahead. He's just trying to impress me.
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Sheriff Andrew Kyle : Well, you two ought to try and get along, then. We all have to.