Tombstone Territory (TV Series)

Blood Money (1959)

Michael Morgan: Sam Crane

Quotes 

• [to the stagecoach passengers he is robbing] 

  Sam Crane : You inside - get out here! I want everything that folds, ticks or shines!

• [to the journalist interested in Western crime] 

  Sam Crane : You'll like Tombstone - it's a smoky town. Almost every night, there's a killin'.

  Kirby Crane : Sure we can trust him, Sam?

  Sam Crane : Sure! 'Cause he knows dead men don't write books.

• Sam Crane : You know the layout of that Tombstone jail?

  Jay Pell : Well, yeah.

  Sam Crane : And you want to see a real shoot-out? You want a dead sheriff for supper?

  Jay Pell : Sam, you get away with this; you kill that sheriff and spring your brother and I'll make them forget Hardin and Tom Horn. I'll make you as big as Jesse James or Billy the Kid!

  Sam Crane : That was just big enough to fit in a pine box.

• Sam Crane : You don't look beat up. Kirby, how much did you tell him?

  Kirby Crane : I didn't tell him nothin'.

  Sam Crane : Pell here says that the sheriff beat your brains out and you started blabbin'.

  Kirby Crane : He hit me once, but I didn't tell him nothin'!

  Jay Pell : Well, remember I'm a writer. I color up the facts some.

  Sam Crane : Enough to send me straight into that sheriff's guns tryin' to shoot my brother out of the Tombstone jail?

  Jay Pell : Now you're a bit melodramatic.

  Kirby Crane : You and me both, Mister, and you're right in the middle, not off to one side takin' notes!

• Jay Pell : A writer's a man of great curiousity. Might I ask you a question?

  Sam Crane : Ask it.

  [glances at the murdered shotgun guard] 

  Jay Pell : When you spend this for whiskey, does it taste of blood?

  [the outlaw pistol whips the reporter] 

  Sam Crane : Any other questions?

• [to Pell as he cocks his pistol] 

  Sam Crane : You came West lookin' for somethin' to write. Well, you just found it - your death warrant!