Hard Ground (2003 TV Movie)

Bruce Dern: Sheriff Hutch Hutchinson

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Quotes 

• Joshua : So you're figurin' on recruitin' one hard-case killer to track and kill another one?

  Hutch : Well, you're good, but there's a lot of hard ground south of here and not a thimble full of water... more than a thousand places to hide. We're gonna need all the help we can get.

• John McKay : Just you and me?

  Hutch : I got me a tracker - I need a killer.

• Joshua : What the hell is she doin' here? I told her to go home!

  John McKay : So did we.

  Hutch : She's a little hard of hearin'.

  John McKay : Stubborn, too - kinda like you, I hear.

• [discussing McKay] 

  Joshua : He's a hard man, isn't he?

  Hutch : Boy, I spent twenty years with him and there wasn't a day went by that I didn't wonder about him... and there also wasn't a day went by that I didn't wish I were a little more like him... in some ways.

• John McKay : Mr. Hutchinson, you realize, of course, that what you're asking is for you and I and the boy and the girl to do exactly what got me into Yuma prison?

  Hutch : I know.

• John McKay : Well, they're still pullin' that paymaster's wagon. Must be headin' for Tortuga.

  Hutch : Franco.

  Joshua : Who's that?

  Hutch : Not who, what.

  John McKay : A place where gold and guns make the law, boy.

• Hutch : The only thing to do with a den of rattlesnakes is to stomp it shut or blow it closed.

  John McKay : Kind of like Yuma prison, although not as bad.

• John McKay : What the hell is he doing here?

  Hutch : Savin' your sorry ass!

• Hutch : What the hell is she doin' here?

  John McKay : Savin' our sorry asses!

• Hutch : That's a full pardon that's been signed by the governor and notorized and now it's on fire!

  John McKay : You know, Hutch, I told you I wouldn't go back to Yuma prison. Either way, I don't fit in... I don't fit in this century - and it won't be long before you don't fit in, either. I kinda like Mexico. I swore before I died I was going to see the ocean.

  [scoops up a handful of coins] 

  John McKay : I'm going to keep this for services rendered.

  Hutch : And rendered rather well, I might add.

• [last lines] 

  John McKay : Miss Elizabeth Kennedy...

  Elizabeth : Yes, sir?

  John McKay : Take good care of my boy.

  Hutch : He ain't a boy, he's a full-grown man!