Waco (/ˈweɪkoʊ/) is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. It is situated along the Brazos River and on the I-35 corridor, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2010 population of 124,805, an increase of almost 10 percent since the 2000 census. The Waco Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of just McLennan County, which had a 2010 population of 234,906.
Prior to the founding of Waco in 1849, a Wichita Native American group known as the "Waco" (Spanish: Hueco or Huaco) lived on the land of present-day downtown Waco. In 1824 Thomas M. Duke explored the area and reported to Stephen F. Austin describing the village: "This town is situated on the West Bank of the River. They have a spring almost as cold as ice itself. All we want is some Brandy and Sugar to have Ice Toddy. They have about 400 acres (1.6 km2) planted in corn, beans, pumpkins, and melons and that tended in good order. I think they cannot raise more than One Hundred Warriors." After Austin aborted the first attempt to destroy their village in 1825, he made a treaty with them. The Waco eventually moved out of the region, settling north near present-day Fort Worth. In 1872 they joined other Wichita tribes on a reservation in Oklahoma. In 1902 the Waco received allotments of land and became official US citizens.
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After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied soldiers, but soon they are running out of water. They find water at the ancient well, but the well is a goal of an entire German battalion. Despite the impossible odds, Sergeant Gunn decides to defend the well.
Keywords: remake, tank, world-war-two, world-war-two-in-africa
Von Falken: Where is your officer?::Gunn: Well, our Captain is British, sir. You know how the British are. After a little action, they like to wash up before teatime.
Von Falken: Surrender your arms and you can go free, with as much food and water as you can carry.::Gunn: Well... I don't think so. We like it here.
Leroux: I like your cigarettes.
Gunn: Water for guns. One pint, for one rifle. One quart, for one mortar. Water for guns. That's the deal.
Leroux: I hate them all.::Bates: Well, it's only right. A bloody shame to go about shooting your friends.
Von Falken: Where is the Sergeant?::Leroux: Oh, désole. I'm all they could spare. The others are having tea.
Leroux: When have the Nazi's ever shown mercy? What we have, we keep! Try to take it if you want!::Von Falken: You keep? You keep what? Your country? We took that easily enough. Accept my terms... or I will send you to hell.::Leroux: [grins, then pulls his knife] Join me.
Williams: You might get to Berlin on that tank of yours, yet.
Gunn: Two armies, both dying of thirst, fighting over an empty well. That don't sum it up...
Gunn: Don't you die on me, Waco!
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After his mother is killed in a wagoncoach robbery a young man pursues the gang responsible. Matt Dillon goes after him hoping to stop him before the gang can kill him. Dillon is joined by Davis Healy, a businessman, who is hiding a few secrets of his own.
Keywords: based-on-cult-tv-series, based-on-tv-series, colt-.45, cowboy, cowboy-boots, cowboy-hat, cowboy-shirt, cowboys-and-outlaws, cult-film, cult-tv
[first lines]::[Sam hands Matt a cup of coffee]::Sam the Cook: Thanks, Sam.::Sam the Cook: Did you decide what kind of cake you want?::Matt Dillon: Just keep it simple. I don't want Beth and Josh to think they're on the wrong spread.::Sam the Cook: You say that every birthday!
Sam the Cook: You know, it's not really a party without candles on your cake.::Matt Dillon: What did we do last year?::Sam the Cook: It slips my mind. How many candles was it?::Matt Dillon: Oh, I'd say it was over 21.::Sam the Cook: You say that every year!
[although Matt warned him to stay out of trouble, Davis starts a bar room brawl]::Matt Dillon: All you salesman that rowdy?::Davis Healy: Hey, nobody starts in barbed wire! I've been a few things.::Matt Dillon: Any of 'em effect your hearing?::Davis Healy: You warned me. Sorry.::Matt Dillon: Sorry gets it once.
[Matt captures a murderous outlaw and brings him to the Tucson sheriff for trial]::Sheriff Deke Clamber: Anybody but you, Matt, would have left him to the buzzards.::Davis Healy: That might be cruelty to animals.
July '72. Vietnam. Lt. Steve Shepard missing in action. Presumed dead...15 years later he's still there.
He may be a phantom of the past, but he's not dead yet.
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A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
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Marshal Flagg, an aging lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an aging relic by the new leader, a youngster named Waco. Waco orders Mackaye to shoot Flagg, and when Mackaye refuses Waco abandons both of them. Flagg then takes Mackaye back to town only to find out that he has been "retired", and when he sees how clueless and incompetent the new marshal and the city fathers are, he persuades Mackaye that it is up to the two of them to stop Waco and his gang from ravaging the town.
Keywords: antonyms-in-title, outlaw
Flagg: You gave me your word not to try anything, and the minute I turned my back you almost took my head off.::McKay: I didn't give you my word - I gave you my promise.::Flagg: It's the same thing!::McKay: No it ain't - one's my promise, and the other's my word!
McKay: Bushwhackin'! Backshootin'! That's all the young ones know these days. They got no dignity! They got no pride! It just ain't no fun anymore.
Mayor Wilker: Who the hell is John McKay?::Waco: [later] Who the hell is James Flagg?
McKay: You got a privy out back?::Flagg: The name of this town is Progress - there's one inside.::McKay: *In*side?::Flagg: Yeah, just under the staircase.::McKay: [McKay jiggles the handcuffs; Flagg unlocks them and follows as McKay walks to the staircase] You gonna hold my hand?::McKay: [McKay walks into the bathroom and looks around. He pulls the chain on the toilet, which flushes] I'll be damned.
Mayor Wilker: [talking about the plan to stop the train] Why don't you take McKay here with you?::Flagg: He's one of 'em!::Mary: No he isn't... not any more... are you, Mr. McKay?::McKay: No, ma'am... not after they shot Grundy...
McKay: There's only one plan and it's as plain as the nose on your face. You can't stop the train from comin' to town 'cause they got the telegraph covered. What you gotta do is stop the train from *stoppin* in town.
McKay: Waco!::[holds his right hand over his gun, challenging Waco]::Waco: You got style, McKay; I'll give you that much.::McKay: [Waco shoots first and wounds McKay. McKay pivots, fires, and kills Waco] I thought I could beat 'im.::Flagg: You beat him.
Trapped by Drugs, Hounded by the Underworld
Charlie Smith: My whole life has been a movie, but I keep getting the reels mixed up.
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Convicted killer Jim Holden is rescued from the sheriff by his gang, led by Mason and Riley. He is out to get the Hathaway Stage superintendent George Bannister, who was responsible for his conviction and learns the Bannister, his niece (Kay) and Hal Hathaway, son of the stage line owner, are on a cross-country stage. Johnny, a rancher, and Waco, local stage representative head for the stage to warn the passengers, including entertainer Paradise Flo and coffin salesman Pennypacker. Hal takes the stage into Holdin. Johnny and Waco rescue Hal and Bannister before the gang succeeds in hanging the pair. By a ruse, Johnny, Waco and Hal split up and capture the entire gang.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, b-movie, b-western, casket, cattleman, deputy, entertainer, false-accusation, frame-up, fugitive
OUTPOSTS OF THE LAW...where daring Marshals fought the west's worst killers!
BANDIT-BUSTIN' BUCKAROOS! Johnny and Ray blast a gang of trigger men!
BATTLING TWO-GUN TERROTISTS! Hot lead lashes the bad lands to blazing fury as Johnny defies the power of bandit gangs!
OUTPOSTS OF THE LAW...where steel-nerved plainsmen made their daring stand against the brigands of the west!
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Shortly after being admitted to the Union, California was under military rule while awaiting for a government to be set up. Factions with influence with the military began taking money, land and property away from its rightful owners. Kirby Tornell, of Spanish-American heritage, loses his rancho to this criminal group and decides to strike back; he organizes a guerrilla band that robs the robbers and returns the property to its rightful owners. General Winfield, the U. S. Military governor, has been hoodwinked by the land-grabbers and thinks Tornell to be an outlaw and sends his troops out to capture Tornell.
Keywords: 1840s, 1850s, american, arrest, aunt-niece-relationship, bartender, brother-sister-relationship, california, cantina, captured-outlaw
Days of Early California! (original ad)
Copyright Kinkead 2000
It's a messed up situation
The Feds are knocking at my door
We had an little altercation,
now there's dead bodies on the floor
I never thought it would end this way,
but before they take us down,
I'll burn this place right to the ground.
Well it's another ugly morning
I got my orders on the phone
It's just I job I have to do and
you know I'd rather be at home
I never thought it would end this way,
Before they go underground
We'll burn this place right to the ground.
I never claimed to be a wise man
But I do know right from wrong
I can't believe this confrontation
could go on for so long
I think I lost a little part of my soul that day
and I put my head down
Won't somebody somewhere come up here and take me to Waco
Cause I've got the blues
These big city sidewalks just don't suit my shoes
Won't somebody somewhere come up here and take me to Waco
I'm tired of being alone
I just ain't that tough, I think I've had enough
I just want to go home
The music and the bright lights and the women and the wine
Took all my money burned a hole in my mind
Now the party is over and the good times are through
The last bell is ringing
The fat lady's singing
And the moon just turned blue
I'd jump on a Greyhound, but I ain't got no money at all
I'd hop me a freight train but I'm afraid I might fall
I'd flag down a semi, put my thumb in the air
Just give me a ride to the East Texas line
Won't somebody somewhere come up here and take me to Waco
Cause I've got the blues
These big city sidewalks just don't suit my shoes
Won't somebody somewhere come up here and take me to Waco
I'm tired of being alone
I just ain't that tough, I think I've had enough
I just want to go home
The music and the bright lights and the women and the wine
Took all my money burned a hole in my mind
Now the party is over and the good times are through
The last bell is ringing
The fat lady's singing
And the moon just turned blue
I'd jump on a Greyhound, but I ain't got no money at all
I'd hop me a freight train but I'm afraid I might fall
I'd flag down a semi, put my thumb in the air
Just give me a ride to the East Texas line
I can walk home from there