Edward Clark: Station Agent

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [the station agent changes the stagecoach's arrival time from 10 a.m. to "late"] 

  Pat Buttram : How late?

  Station Agent : Don't ask me. The telegraph wires have been cut. We haven't had a report on that coach since it left Bisbee.

  Pat Buttram : Well, who cut the wires?

  Station Agent : Don't ask me that neither. You ask Geronimo.

• Pat Buttram : If they can get to San Dimas, I can get to San Dimas.

  Station Agent : They'll be lucky if they can get here to Tombstone.

  Pat Buttram : I know, but there's a United States Marshal ridin' on that coach.

  Station Agent : What good is one marshal?

  Pat Buttram : You don't know who he is - I do. And he's plenty good.