Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)

Anne Jackson: Belle Nops

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• Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : This here is the chest from the stagecoach robbery and Dingus Magee estimates there may be as much as a million dolars in gold and silver pieces inside.

  Belle Nops : Well, the money ain't rightly ours, is it?

  Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : Finders keepers. That's the Code of the West, ain't it?

  Belle Nops : Gimme that crowbar!

• Belle Nops : Where in the hell have you been?

  Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : At the jail taking care of my outlaw.

  Belle Nops : I didn't make you Sheriff to take care of your outlaw, but to protect my girls here.

  [indicates her bordello] 

  Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : Is somebody threatening them?

  Belle Nops : The Army is threatening them!

  Charles Stuart : The Army is threatening to move out.

  Belle Nops : And ruin every industry in Yerke's Hole... especially mine!

  Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : Why would the Army move?

  Rev. Green : To go where the Indians are! That's what they come out west for - to fight Indians.

  Belle Nops : What we need is a good massacre.

  Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : There ain't nothing but tamed Indians around here, Belle.

  Belle Nops : Well, stir 'em up!

  Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : How?

  Belle Nops : Break a treaty! Speak with forked tongue! How the hell should I know? I never started an uprising before!

• Belle Nops : [hands Hoke a badge]  Here. You're the new sheriff.

  Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : Maybe I oughta be sworn in or something.

  Belle Nops : Raise your right hand. Swear.

  Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : To hell with Dingus Magee!

• Belle Nops : These army drills are hard on the girls.

  China Poppy : Soldiers hard on, too.

  Belle Nops : You can say *that* again.

• Belle Nops : Just what is this I hear about the Army pullin' out?

  Brig. Gen. George : Off to the wars, Belle. An Indian named Sitting Bull has gone off on the warpath up here in the Montana territory.

  [pointing at a map] 

  Brig. Gen. George : If I can get to this river before General Custer does, I could be a very famous man someday.

  Belle Nops : [squinting, reading the map]  Little Big Horny?

  Brig. Gen. George : Horn.

• Belle Nops : General, send your men after him.

  Brig. Gen. George : My men are all with whores in combat, Belle.

• Belle Nops : [after her bordello catches fire]  My cathouse!... My cathouse!... My cathouse is burning!

• Belle Nops : Who took it?

  Dingus Billy Magee : Hoke took it.