Ride a Crooked Trail
1958 · 88 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 822 VOTES · DIR. Jesse Hibbs
Overview
After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy
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00:02:54 - Your name is? - George Blunt out of Fort Smith.
00:05:50 I've seen him shot 6 times and he never dies, less than he's drunk.
00:08:30 You are right, it's prejudiced.
00:10:55 Two good men, both of them dead.
00:14:14 - You've got an empty. - You've got to let.
00:18:46 - Can I bring my gun? - Of course, what else?
00:22:03 If she said when I going to to stay, I guess you just have to get yourself a new marshal.
00:24:56 Somehow you got a hole at that badge and somehow they think you are marshal.
00:28:28 And the cooking.
00:30:58 Mrs. Curtis would like to have your wife meet some of her friends.
00:34:32 Jimmy needs a home, don't you agree Mrs. Noonan?
00:38:52 With him he brung a broken star.
00:43:03 You know how the bank works?
00:46:41 A lot of money.
00:50:24 - Can I take him too? - Sure, why not?
00:55:55 Well, I haven't till last night, then I went through the files and I found his picture.
01:00:31 He needed a flat name, so, called himself Joe Maybe.
01:03:45 What's the rabies?
01:06:57 - Could we top those folks riding point? - Sure, why not?
01:10:32 Then why you want us to go away?
01:13:28 There's a gate in the backyard. It lead to the River Palace.
01:17:09 You know the too sides of this trickiness town and your wife doesn't belong to this one,
01:21:10 Far away from a bank?
01:27:28 You be in my chamber at nine o'clock, that's the law.
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