Western Union (1941)

Vance Shaw: I like being alone.
Edward Creighton: The best place to be alone sometimes is in a crowd.
Vance Shaw: That's the way I figured it... until I ran into you.

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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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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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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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