Yancy Derringer (TV Series)

The Belle from Boston (1958)

Kevin Hagen: John Colton

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Yancy and Pahoo gaze out the window at the gallows that will hang Mike Carter] 

  John Colton : Good morning, Yancy... Pahoo.

  Yancy Derringer : Are you going to go through with that?

  John Colton : I am.

  Yancy Derringer : I think you better read your morning mail first.

  [indicates a sign tacked to Cotton's office door that reads, "Last Warning: Don't!"] 

• John Colton : Are you implying Mike Carter doesn't deserve to swing from a gibbet?

  Yancy Derringer : No.

  John Colton : Mike Carter is one of the most vicious criminals New Orleans has ever spawned! He's committed ever crime in the book, including the murder of women and children. You're right, hanging's too good for him! He deserves to be boiled alive in oil!

• Yancy Derringer : You picked a fine time for your sister to arrive.

  John Colton : I didn't know she was coming. The first word I had was when she telegraphed from St. Louis.

  Yancy Derringer : It's quite simple. You give her an armed guard; don't let her on the street.

  John Colton : You don't know Agatha.

  Yancy Derringer : Agatha?

  John Colton : That's her name.

  John Colton : Yes, I remember - you told me. She looks like you.

  John Colton : She has red hair, blue eyes...

  Yancy Derringer : And a beard.

• John Colton : I am not going to knuckle under to the threats of hoodlums! Yancy, this office represents law. It cannot respect the sap, the dagger, the gun.

  Yancy Derringer : Even if it costs you ever relative you possess.

• John Colton : Does my sister have everything she needs?

  Madame Francine : Needs, sir, or wants?

  John Colton : [sighs]  Wants.

  Madame Francine : Oh, your sister has everything she wants except a copy of the Boston Evening Transcript.

• [last lines] 

  John Colton : Thank heavens she's safely away.

  Madame Francine : I thought she would never go.