Western Union (1941)

Edward Creighton: Well then, I guess I better see the law about this.
Jack Slade: You'll have to go back to Omaha if you do. It don't run beyond there.
Edward Creighton: I'll make some of my own!

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Doc Murdoch: Feels like you got a slug there, pardner. A .44?
Charlie: Injun arrowhead. It don't bother me none.
Doc Murdoch: You know, some members of the medical profession like to cut them things out. But I say, let 'em stay if it's that comfortable.

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[on the whereabouts of a recently deceased railroad worker]
Charlie: He's being slapped with a spade right now.

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Studio publicity noted that Fox contract star Henry Fonda had served as technical adviser on the film, due to his experience as a young man working as a lineman. Fonda's "technical advisory" capacity was most certainly a publicity fiction, and in any event Fonda was not credited on the film itself.
Originally, Laird Cregar was cast in this film in an undetermined role (possibly that of Doc Murdoch), but was unable to do the film due to an unfinished other project. He was replaced by George 'Gabby' Hayes, but Hayes then became ill and was himself replaced.
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