# Very obscure movie (or TV?) quote

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 10, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-obscure-movie-or-tv-quote/80762 "2001-09-10T22:48:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-obscure-movie-or-tv-quote/80762/1 "2001-09-10T22:48:02Z")

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Ok, as most John Wayne fans know, the movies _Rio Bravo_ and _El Dorado_ are rather similiar in some respects.

But my question here is not about that, per se, but rather about a reference to them. I have a recollection of a movie or TV show many years ago in which a male character says something to the effect of, “No, Dean Martin played the drunken sheriff in Rio Bravo; Robert Mitchum played the drunken sheriff in El Dorado.”

So how’s that for obscure? Does anyone else remember that line at all? Anyone remember it enough to tell me what it’s from or who said it?

(And to save a tangent, I do know that Dean Martin actually played a drunken deputy in Rio Bravo, but I’m pretty sure the quote I’m looking for referred to both as sheriff. But I could be wrong about that.)

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-obscure-movie-or-tv-quote/80762/2 "2001-09-10T23:02:08Z")

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It’s from _Get Shorty_.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-obscure-movie-or-tv-quote/80762/3 "2001-09-10T23:06:59Z")

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**HIT MAN:**  
This time it ain’t no John Wayne or Dean Martin shooting bad guys in El Dorado,  
**CHILI:**  
That was _Rio Bravo._ Robert Mitchum played the drunk in _El Durado._ Dean Martin played the drunk in _Rio Bravo._

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-obscure-movie-or-tv-quote/80762/4 "2001-09-10T23:08:26Z")

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Sorry, Chili can’t spell. The dumb galoot.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-obscure-movie-or-tv-quote/80762/5 "2001-09-10T23:10:12Z")

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… from the book by Elmore Leonard …

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**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-obscure-movie-or-tv-quote/80762/6 "2001-09-10T23:22:01Z")

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Thanks, that was quick. Guess it wasn’t all that obscure. But being from Get Shorty does explain why I remembered the line but not the context…