Riders of the Rio Grande (1943)

Edward Van Sloan: Pop Owens

Quotes 

• Pop Owens : When we rode you out of town, Skelly, it was on a one-way ticket and that still holds.

  Sam Skelly : Mr. Owens, it just happened that I have business to attend to here.

  Pop Owens : I doubt that. We don't do business with gamblers and gunmen. We leave that to Canyon City.

  Sam Skelly : Well, at least Canyon City has life it in. They bury their dead instead of letting them roam the streets.

• [Owens mistakes the Three Mesquiteers for the villainous Cherokee Boys] 

  Stony Brooke : Let's get this straight. You want somebody killed and you're willing to pay a $1000 for the job?

  Pop Owens : That's it, and I hired you killers to ensure against any bungling. The man must be killed expertly and painlessly and not later than tomorrow.

  Tucson Smith : Who's the man?

  Lullaby Joslin : Yeah, we gotta warn him.

  Pop Owens : Warn him?

  Tucson Smith : Uh, sure! We always give 'em a sportin' chance. We like to do things the hard way.

  Pop Owens : This time I don't want the man warned.

  Stony Brooke : Who is he?

  Pop Owens : The man I want killed is... me.

• [last lines] 

  Pop Owens : Thank you, boys, for this Owens family reunion. You know, I don't think I made such a bad mistake in hiring you after all!