Jack Slade, Jr. Quotes in The Return of Jack Slade (1955)

Joseph Ryan: The country still needs men who know how to handle a gun, Jack.

Jack Slade, Jr.: Gunfighters?

Joseph Ryan: We call them detectives.

[the Wild Bunch makes their getaway after holding up a train]

Johnny Turner: That's the Wild Bunch! That's the Wild Bunch!

Jack Slade, Jr.: Yeah.

Johnny Turner: That's livin'! I call that livin'!

Jack Slade, Jr.: It's a good way of dyin', too.

[to prevent Johnny from following him into the Wild Bunch's hideout, Jack knocks him out at the train depot]

Jack Slade, Jr.: Sorry, compadre.

Station master: Say, I thought he was your friend.

Jack Slade, Jr.: He is. Take care of him.

Station master: What am I going to do with him?

Jack Slade, Jr.: Just keep the flies off him!

[after helping the Wild Bunch rob a gold-carrying wagon, Abilene robs a minister riding as a passenger]

Abilene: Give!

Jack Slade, Jr.: Abilene! Not him.

Abilene: Alright, man of God - keep your pennies.

Jack Slade, Jr.: Look, why are you in the Hole in the Wall?

Texas Rose: Because I can eat whenever I get hungry - and I get hungry often. Sound reasonable?