The Red Rider (1934)

Buck Jones: 'Red' Davidson

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Quotes 

• [repeated line] 

  'Red' Davidson : Guess it's because of my red hair.

• [first lines] 

  [looking at his pocket watch] 

  'Red' Davidson : Silver, I guess we better headin' for that meetin'.

• 'Red' Davidson : Have you located Scotty McKee's killer yet?

  'Silent' Slade : Not so's I can prove it.

  'Red' Davidson : You know his name ends with N and he smokes marijuana

  'Silent' Slade : I know the clothes fit Breen all right, but it's another thing to make him wear 'em.

• [Red and Johnny survive an accidental ambush by Marie Maxwell and Joan McKee] 

  Johnny Snow : Jiminy crickets!

  'Red' Davidson : Are you hurt, Johnny?

  Johnny Snow : My pride's hurt plenty.

  'Red' Davidson : If it's only your pride, you'll recover.

• 'Red' Davidson : And when we found him, he'd been shot in the back.

  Robert Maxwell : You mean murdered?

  'Red' Davidson : Never saw a man committing suicide by shooting himself in the back.

• Marie Maxwell : You don't like women, do you?

  'Red' Davidson : Oh, I guess so. Soapy Caswell used to back in Montana, "Women are like liquor - a little bit's good for ya, too much gives you a headache."

  Marie Maxwell : Well, I guess women might say the same thing about men.

  'Red' Davidson : Sure, why not. I don't see what women see in men anyway.

  Marie Maxwell : I wonder.

  'Red' Davidson : You know if a woman was so foolish to fall in love with me, why I'd buy her a sack of nuts, and show 'em a big tree and tell her to enjoy herself.

  Marie Maxwell : You know you don't mean that.

• Johnny Snow : Got an answer to your telegram.

  'Red' Davidson : You read it.

  Johnny Snow : [indignately]  Maybe you think I can't.

• Johnny Snow : [toasting]  Here's to ya, old timer. May your biggest problems be little ones.

  'Red' Davidson : [clinking glasses]  Idiot.

  [both laugh] 

• Sheriff Campbell : Did you help Slade elude the posse?

  'Red' Davidson : He was my friend.

  Sheriff Campbell : But a murderer nevertheless.

  'Red' Davidson : No, a victim of circumstantial evidence. They had a new prosecuting attorney up there that was out to make a record. Won his case and I was to be the executioner.

  Sheriff Campbell : You?

  'Red' Davidson : Yeah, you see I was the sheriff of Sun Dog at the time. That's where Scotty McKee was killed and they convicted Slade - and I turned him loose.

  Sheriff Campbell : Well, by gosh. Wasn't that a funny thing for a sheriff to do?

  'Red' Davidson : I was a funny sheriff, I guess.

• [reading the telegram] 

  Johnny Snow : "Wiring plenty transportation, but you'll have to use your own authority."

  'Red' Davidson : What's that?

  Johnny Snow : Wait. "Soapy said you'd do it. Next time you resign as sheriff of Sundog, don't forget to sign your name. - Harp Harris, Acting Sheriff".

• [last lines] 

  'Red' Davidson : Gee, that still makes me sheriff of Sun Dog. I'm awfully sorry, Marie, I didn't know that or I wouldn't have asked you to marry me.

  Marie Maxwell : It's too late to back out now. I'll sue you.

  Robert Maxwell : I was figuring on giving you half of this ranch as a wedding present and we could run it on a partnership basis

  [the Abel Brothers are guzzling liquor out of the punch bowl and Silent steps forward to 'chastise' them] 

  'Red' Davidson : Hey, hey. After the wedding.

• Sheriff Campbell : You're from Montana, ain't ya?

  'Red' Davidson : Yeah.

  Sheriff Campbell : You know Slade up there.

  'Red' Davidson : Yeah.

  Sheriff Campbell : Did you know he escaped from jail?

  'Red' Davidson : Yeah.

  Sheriff Campbell : Did you help him escape?

  'Red' Davidson : Yeah.

  Sheriff Campbell : Then Breen was right.

  'Red' Davidson : Doesn't seem possible.

• [discussing Breen] 

  'Red' Davidson : Will you lock him up, Sheriff, till I need him? I gotta telegraph Sundog for authority and transportation.

  Sheriff Campbell : If you don't convict him, send him back to me and I will. I'll give you a warrant before you go.

  'Red' Davidson : Don't figure on seeing him again. His plea of self-defense won't hold water.

  Sheriff Campbell : How's that?

  'Red' Davidson : Scotty McKee was shot in the back.

• [Red and Marie find Robert Maxwell bound and gagged in a closet] 

  'Red' Davidson : Bet this is some of Breen's work.

  'Red' Davidson : [entering the room with his pistol drawn]  Keep your hands in the clear! You win that bet, Redhead, but you lose the diamonds.

• Johnny Snow : I'll have a snort of good ol' Redeye. What'll you have, Red?

  'Red' Davidson : Oh, some good ol' aqua pura.

  Bartender : We ain't got no fancy drinks.

  'Red' Davidson : Well, then give us a little clean water, will ya?

• 'Red' Davidson : [In Chapter: 12, Red says to Silent Slade]  Why you left handed monkey wrench!