"[about no one volunteering to be a deputy] It figures. It's all happened too sudden. People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care."
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Crime filmsDrama films1950s American filmsFilms based on short fictionFilms directed by Fred Zinnemann
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