I’m your huckleberry.

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Some of the greatest lines in movie history. Watch first clip:

Tombstone (1993 director Kurt Russell)

Curly Bill (Powers Boothe)>>> [takes a bill with Wyatt’s signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table]
Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you.
Ike Clanton (Stephan Lang)>>> Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don’t go around here. Savvy?
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>> I’m retired.
Curly Bill >>> Good. That’s real good.
Ike Clanton >>> Yeah, that’s good, Mr. Law Dog, ’cause law don’t go around here.
Wyatt Earp >>> I heard you the first time. [flips a card]
Wyatt Earp >>> Winner to the King, five hundred dollars.
Curly Bill >>> Shut up, Ike.
Johnny Ringo (Michael Biehn)>>> [Ringo steps up to Doc] And you must be Doc Holliday.
Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer)>>> That’s the rumor.
Johnny Ringo >>> You retired too?
Doc Holliday >>> Not me. I’m in my prime.
Johnny Ringo >>> Yeah, you look it.
Doc Holliday >>> And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?
Kate (Joanna Pacula)>>> You don’t even know him.
Doc Holliday >>> Yes, but there’s just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don’t know, reminds me of… me. No. I’m sure of it, I hate him.
Wyatt Earp >>> [to Ringo] He’s drunk.
Doc Holliday >>> In vino veritas. [“In wine is truth” meaning >>> “When I’m drinking, I speak my mind”]
Johnny Ringo >>> Age quod agis. [“Do what you do” meaning >>> “Do what you do best”]
Doc Holliday >>> Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.
[“The Jew Apella may believe it, not I” meaning >>> “I don’t believe drinking is what I do best.”]
Johnny Ringo >>> [pats his gun] Eventus stultorum magister.
[“Events are the teachers of fools” meaning >>> “Fools have to learn by experience”]
Doc Holliday >>> [gives a Cheshire cat smile] In pace requiescat.
[“Rest in peace” meaning >>> “It’s your funeral!”]
Tombstone Marshal Fred White (Harry Carey Jr)>>> Come on boys. We don’t want any trouble in here. Not in any language.
Doc Holliday >>> Evidently Mr. Ringo’s an educated man. Now I really hate him.
Doc Holliday >>> Why Kate, you’re not wearing a bustle. How lewd.

Watch second clip:

Johnny Ringo >>> [waiting by an oak tree for Wyatt Earp for a showdown, he believes the person approaching is Wyatt] Well,I didn’t think ya had it in you.
Doc Holliday >>> I’m your huckleberry. [Ringo is startled that it’s Holliday and not Wyatt]
Doc Holliday >>> Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.
Johnny Ringo >>> Fight’s not with you, Holliday.
Doc Holliday >>> I’ll beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?
Johnny Ringo >>> I was just foolin’ about.
Doc Holliday >>> I wasn’t. And this time… [opens his coat to reveal a U.S. Deputy Marshal Badge]
Doc Holliday >>> … it’s legal.
Johnny Ringo >>> All right, lunger. Let’s do it.
Doc Holliday >>> [they both start moving in circles slowly into position for a showdown, staring at each other without blinking] Say when.
Doc Holliday >>> [they both draw but Holliday is a tad quicker and shoots Ringo in the head and Ringo struggles to stay standing and finally falls] Poor soul. You were just too high-strung.
[Holliday places the badge on Ringo’s corpse]
 

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Tombstone 1993

Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>Just want to let you know, you're sittin' in my chair.
Johnny Tyler (Billy Bob Thornton)>>>Is that a fact?
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>Yeah, it's a fact.
Johnny Tyler (Billy Bob Thornton)>>>For a man that don't go heeled, you run your mouth kinda reckless, don't ya?
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>No need to go heeled to get the bulge on a tub like you.
Johnny Tyler (Billy Bob Thornton)>>>Is that a fact? - Mm-hmm.
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>That's a fact.
Johnny Tyler (Billy Bob Thornton)>>>Well, I'm real scared.

Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>Damn right, you're scared. I can see that in your eyes.
Johnny Tyler (Billy Bob Thornton)>>>All right now! [slapped]
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) >>>Go ahead. Go ahead, skin it! Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens.
Johnny Tyler (Billy Bob Thornton)>>>Listen, mister,...

Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>l-I'm gettin' awful tired of your...
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>I'm gettin' tired of your gas. Now jerk that pistol and go to work.
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>I said throw down, boy. You gonna do somethin', or just stand there and bleed? No? I didn't think so.
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>Here, Milt, a keepsake. Hang it over the bar. [tossed gun]
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>All right, youngster, out you go. Don't come back! Ever!
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>>Well, what do you say, Milt? Twenty-five percent of the house take sound about right?
 
David777 said:
Some of the greatest lines in movie history. Watch first clip:

Tombstone (1993 director Kurt Russell)

Curly Bill (Powers Boothe)>>> [takes a bill with Wyatt’s signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table]
Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you.
Ike Clanton (Stephan Lang)>>> Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don’t go around here. Savvy?
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell)>>> I’m retired.
Curly Bill >>> Good. That’s real good.
Ike Clanton >>> Yeah, that’s good, Mr. Law Dog, ’cause law don’t go around here.
Wyatt Earp >>> I heard you the first time. [flips a card]
Wyatt Earp >>> Winner to the King, five hundred dollars.
Curly Bill >>> Shut up, Ike.
Johnny Ringo (Michael Biehn)>>> [Ringo steps up to Doc] And you must be Doc Holliday.
Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer)>>> That’s the rumor.
Johnny Ringo >>> You retired too?
Doc Holliday >>> Not me. I’m in my prime.
Johnny Ringo >>> Yeah, you look it.
Doc Holliday >>> And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?
Kate (Joanna Pacula)>>> You don’t even know him.
Doc Holliday >>> Yes, but there’s just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don’t know, reminds me of… me. No. I’m sure of it, I hate him.
Wyatt Earp >>> [to Ringo] He’s drunk.
Doc Holliday >>> In vino veritas. [“In wine is truth” meaning >>> “When I’m drinking, I speak my mind”]
Johnny Ringo >>> Age quod agis. [“Do what you do” meaning >>> “Do what you do best”]
Doc Holliday >>> Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.
[“The Jew Apella may believe it, not I” meaning >>> “I don’t believe drinking is what I do best.”]
Johnny Ringo >>> [pats his gun] Eventus stultorum magister.
[“Events are the teachers of fools” meaning >>> “Fools have to learn by experience”]
Doc Holliday >>> [gives a Cheshire cat smile] In pace requiescat.
[“Rest in peace” meaning >>> “It’s your funeral!”]
Tombstone Marshal Fred White (Harry Carey Jr)>>> Come on boys. We don’t want any trouble in here. Not in any language.
Doc Holliday >>> Evidently Mr. Ringo’s an educated man. Now I really hate him.
Doc Holliday >>> Why Kate, you’re not wearing a bustle. How lewd.

Watch second clip:

Johnny Ringo >>> [waiting by an oak tree for Wyatt Earp for a showdown, he believes the person approaching is Wyatt] Well,I didn’t think ya had it in you.
Doc Holliday >>> I’m your huckleberry. [Ringo is startled that it’s Holliday and not Wyatt]
Doc Holliday >>> Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.
Johnny Ringo >>> Fight’s not with you, Holliday.
Doc Holliday >>> I’ll beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?
Johnny Ringo >>> I was just foolin’ about.
Doc Holliday >>> I wasn’t. And this time… [opens his coat to reveal a U.S. Deputy Marshal Badge]
Doc Holliday >>> … it’s legal.
Johnny Ringo >>> All right, lunger. Let’s do it.
Doc Holliday >>> [they both start moving in circles slowly into position for a showdown, staring at each other without blinking] Say when.
Doc Holliday >>> [they both draw but Holliday is a tad quicker and shoots Ringo in the head and Ringo struggles to stay standing and finally falls] Poor soul. You were just too high-strung.
[Holliday places the badge on Ringo’s corpse]
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I LOVE that movie and that clip. And, I have to say, that Val Kilmer's performance as Doc Holiday, in general, was just incredible.
 

I don't know if folks remember NY Yankee Phil Rizzuto broadcasting games. He often used the word "huckleberry." Mr. Rizzuto lived in Hillside, NJ, the next town over from me. He used to go to the same health food store that I went to. I saw him in there once, talking with the owner. They were talking about the production of cheap and unhealthy food. And I did get to hear Mr. Rizzuto calling the people at those companies "huckleberries."
 
Tombstone is the only western I like. If Val Kilmer wasn't in it, I probably wouldn't like it either. He makes the movie, IMO.

Well, actually I kind of like True Grit, too.
 
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Decades ago I took a most interesting college class in Non-Verbal Communication that includes much subtle brief micro facial expressions that register in almost sub-conscious ways. In the top link, I love the screen capture facial expression of Polish American actress Joanna Pacula, after Doc Holliday in a highly arrogant calm manner asks her if he ought hate Ringo who was glaring across the Faro table.

Doc Holliday >>> And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?
Kate (Joanna Pacula)>>> You don’t even know him.

Doc Holliday >>> Yes, but there’s just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don’t know, reminds me of… me. No. I’m sure of it, I hate him.

His response ends with a mocking smirk that provokes a stronger response in Ringo. They then exchange Latin and Ringo puts his hand on his gun as concerned Kate shifts to the other side of Doc.
 

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