The Return of Frank James (1940)

John Carradine: Bob Ford

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• Bob Ford : Have a drink, Major.

  Maj. Rufus Cobb : I don't drink with rats.

  Liberty bartender : Watch out, Major!

  Maj. Rufus Cobb : No danger. The Fords only shoot at backs.

• Bob Ford : [the Major confronts the Fords at the saloon after their pardon]  Have a drink, Major.

  Maj. Rufus Cobb : I don't drink with rats!

  Liberty bartender : Watch it, Major!

  Maj. Rufus Cobb : No danger, the Fords only shoot at backs!

  Charlie Ford : You tryin' to make trouble?

  Maj. Rufus Cobb : No, but if I had my way...

  Bob Ford : You had your way! You and your stinkin' paper did everything you could to hang us, didn't ya? Well we're free now, and we got the reward money, and there isn't a thing you can do about it!

  George Runyan : Come come, gentlemen, let bygones be bygones. The James case is a closed issue.

  Maj. Rufus Cobb : [angrily]  Not by a gosh-danged sight it ain't! And it won't be closed until Jessie's blood is paid for, every dad-blasted drop of it! And your hands ain't any too clean either, Runyan!

  George Runyan : Mine? What have I done? As an officer of the railroad, naturally I...

  Bob Ford : Oh, don't pay any attention to the old buzzard! Talk, talk, that's all he can do!

  Maj. Rufus Cobb : Yes, 'bout all I can do! But those James boys are mighty peculiar, *mighty* peculiar! Jessie's gone, that's true, maybe Frank's gone, but then again, maybe he ain't. The boys always had a mighty peculiar way of turnin' up when you least expected them. *Mighty* peculiar!