McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

Hugh Millais: Butler

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• Butler : That man? That man never killed anybody.

• John McCabe : You don't work for Harrison Shaughnessy?

  Butler : Sometimes. But only when they can't make a deal.

  John McCabe : Well, look, that's just what I'm trying to tell you. This here deal can be made.

  Butler : Not with me.

• Butler : I don't make deals.

  John McCabe : What are you doing here, if you don't make deals?

  Butler : I came up here to hunt bear.

• Butler : You don't even know where the wealth of this town is. Chinkyville, that's where it is. Right down there in Chinatown. - I'll be with you in a minute. - Up in Canada, right now, they're blasting tunnel under $10 a foot, all done with the pigtails. They've got some new explosives up there. Fantastic stuff! They give it to Johnny Chinaman, send him in, down comes 45-50 tons of rock, and one dead Chinaman. You, sir. Do you know what the fine is for killing a Chinaman? $50 maximum. The inspector's working for the company. Four times out of five it's an accident. You could do this here with your own zinc. All you've got to do is give the bugger a box of this stuff, put him down the hole, up to the rock face, and there's your zinc. Sixty-five cents a ton.