"[about being marshal] It's a great life. You risk your skin catchin' killers and the juries turn 'em loose so they can come back and shoot at ya again. If you're honest, you're poor your whole life, and in the end you wind up dyin' all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothin'. For a tin star."
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Crime filmsDrama films1950s American filmsFilms based on short fictionFilms directed by Fred Zinnemann
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