One Foot in Hell (1960)
Actors:
Michael Jeffers (actor),
Jimmy Horan (actor),
Stanley Adams (actor),
Emile Avery (actor),
Fred Aldrich (actor),
Herman Hack (actor),
Paul Bradley (actor),
Chet Brandenburg (actor),
Ralph Bucko (actor),
Harry Carter (actor),
William Challee (actor),
George Cisar (actor),
Edmund Cobb (actor),
Robert Adler (actor),
I. Stanford Jolley (actor),
Plot: Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medicine she needs. The remorseful townspeople hire Mitch to be a deputy sheriff, thereby enabling him to plot an elaborate bank robbery with the help of an artist, a pickpocket, a gunslinger and a bar-girl. In conjunction with the robbery, Mitch plans to avenge himself upon every man who hindered his purchase of a single bottle of medicine costing one dollar and eighty seven cents so many years ago.
Keywords: arizona, artist, bank-robbery, cattle, crooked-sheriff, double-cross, grave, marriage-of-convenience, molotov-cocktail, number-in-title
Genres:
Western,
Taglines: One foot in hell one hand on a gun one day a town would never forget One foot in hell is one whale of a motion picture! One foot in hell is one of the most exciting... one of the most powerful human epics in the story of the West! The story of the day hell came to town wearing a badge!...
Quotes:
Dr. Seltzer: All the way from Atlanta, she said. They were burned out in the war. The two of them - shoulda been three - wanted to start a new life. They came all the way west... here... to us, my hospitable friends. That's a long way to come just to lay down and die.
Mitch: You know, I read something a long time ago: Follow the rainbow... but don't wait for the gold to be in it.::Dan: Look for the silver in between. Yeah, I know - I went to school once, too. Say, what are you? Are you some kind of do-gooder or something? You want to save my soul, Mister?::Mitch: No, I want a few men with anger and guts enough to follow that rainbow and grab a pot full of gold - not petty silver in-between.
Dan: My folks worked their lives tryin' to make somethin' out of a lot of worn-out dirt that nobody else would spit on.
Dan: If you got enough whiskey, you don't need to dream about things not worth dreamin'.
Dan: You know somethin'? The way you plan things, sorta slow and careful - you must want that money real bad.::Mitch: Not as much as I once wanted a dollar and eighty-seven cents.
[Mitch points his pistol at Sheriff Olson]::Sheriff Olson: Mitch, don't. You're crazy! You don't-you don't know what you're doing!::Mitch: Ellie screamed. Why don't you scream?
[discussing the man Mitch, unknown to the rancher, murdered]::Rancher: Sorry, Mitch. I know how you felt about Ole.::Mitch: No, I don't think so. No one will ever know that.
Mitch: Well, everything's set on his end. Now we tie up the other end.::Dan: Where's that?::Mitch: The border - Royce City.::Dan: That hellhole? There's nothing there but lice!::Mitch: That's what we're looking for, isn't it - human lice?::Dan: Present company not excepted?
[Stu has just won $300 by killing another man in a shootout]::Master of Ceremonies: Let me know when you're ready to go and you can pick up the prize money.::Stu Christian: That's alright. I never stay for the funerals anyway.
Mitch: My name's Mitch Barrett. I'd like to talk to you.::Stu Christian: Don't recall askin' to listen.::Mitch: You'll listen and be glad you did for twenty thousand in gold.::Stu Christian: Mister, when you talk, you talk big!