3:10 to Yuma (1957)

Dan Evans: Why did you do it, Ben?
Ben Wade: I don't like owing anybody any favors. You saved my life back at the hotel. That's all right, I've broken out of Yuma before.
Dan Evans: Well, my jobs finished when I get you there.

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[after discovering where their leader has been hidden, one of Wade's gang members rides off to gather the outlaws to rescue their leader]
Ben Wade: Now don't go blamin' yourself, because it isn't your fault, you know. He'd have seen the same thing in Benson or Huachuca. No matter where you take me, somebody would be ridin' for help right now. You see, when one of us gets caught, we figure out all the places where they might take us and then we send one man ahead to each of those places... and wait... and watch.

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Bisbee Marshal: Alex, have you been drinking this morning or not?
Alex Potter, town drunk: Marshal, you know I never touch a drop until the stroke of noon.

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This film, along with the equally allegorical High Noon, was a deciding factor in making Howard Hawks turn out Rio Bravo, a return to simpler, less revisionist Westerns.
Average Shot Length = ~6.4 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~6.6 seconds.
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