Three Desperate Men

Opening crawl:
The American frontier, late in the last century, was a hotbed of violence. It took daring, and desperate courage, for a frontiersman to survive - whether he lived by breaking the law, or by enforcing it. This is the 'true' story of three of these desperate men - 'true' not because it happened exactly as portrayed, but because human nature is what it is...

[first lines]

[the posse has cornered the men they've been pursuing]

Pete Coleman:
Put that away! We don't want to shoot 'em.

Dick Cable:
Bill, look! The marshals!

Bill Devlin:
Yep.

Dick Cable:
They'll never take me alive!

Bill Devlin:
[pouring a cup of coffee] Don't you want to drink the rest of it?

Dick Cable:
Are you loco?

Bill Devlin:
I can't start the day without my coffee.

Ed Larkin:
What is this?

Tom Denton:
It's from District Marshal Coleman. It's his statement that Matt was wearing a marshal's badge and working with him on the day of the train robbery.

Ed Larkin:
Well this is pretty good evidence. I know Pete Coleman. Too bad you boys weren't at the trial.

Tom Denton:
At the trial? We just heard about it last week! Your justice is a lot faster than your railroad.

Guard:
[Matt is about to be hung]

Guard:
Do you want a blindfold, Matt?

Matt Denton:
No. If I'm going to perform, I want to see my audience.

Farmer:
Say, did you fellows come from town?

Tom Denton:
Yeah.

Farmer:
Did you see the hangin?

Fred Denton:
Naw, we couldn't wait.

Farmer:
I couldn't make it myself. Hated to miss it.

Matt Denton:
Yeah... So did I.

Laura Brock:
Wires to every town along the line. They'll never get home alive.

[thumbing through telegrams listing the Denton's alleged crimes]

Pete Coleman:
Horse thieves, murderers, bank robbers, rustlers...

Laura Brock:
Pete, there'd have to be a hundred of them to do all those things!

Tom Denton:
You know how we got into this. We were forced to turn outlaw. All I wanted was a chance to give Laura a decent life somewhere else.

Mrs. Denton:
You mean to say you turned outlaw for Laura? Then you have no excuse for ever robbing or killing again. Laura is dead.

Tom Denton:
Fred, after today they'll forget all about the Youngers and the James boys; it'll be us! None of them ever took two places at once.

Fred Denton:
That's no reason.

Tom Denton:
It's reason enough for me now!

[a lovely woman smiles at Bill just before as the outlaws start the robbery]

Bill Devlin:
I hope she don't have money in the bank.