Denver & Rio Grande (1952)

Edmond O'Brien: Jim Vesser

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Quotes 

• Jim Vesser : Who put you up to this?

  CC&SJ Man : Nobody put us up to anything.

  Jim Vesser : Well, you're fired!

  CC&SJ Man : Who are you to fire me? You didn't hire me!

  Gil Harkness : No but I did... and you're fired.

• Jim Vesser : We've been surveying this route for three weeks!

  McCabe : And so have we.

  Bob Nelson : Don't get hot-headed Jim. Looks like it's for the courts to decide.

  Jim Vesser : There's nothing in my orders that says I have to wait for any courts to make up their minds. We're going through.

  Bob Nelson : Not along our stakes.

  Jim Vesser : We'll throw them in the river.

  McCabe : You throw one stake in the river and I'll throw you in right after it.

• Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott : I saw him shoot those two men. Isn't that enough without torturing this one?

  Jim Vesser : And I suppose they weren't trying to do anything except kill me.

• Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott : That flatcar's coming.

  Jim Vesser : Don't worry, that wall will hold it.

  Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott : It's loaded with dynamite.

  Jim Vesser : Everybody run!