You risk your skin catchin' killers and the juries turn 'em loose so they can come back… — Martin Howe

You risk your skin catchin' killers and the juries turn 'em loose so they can come back and shoot at ya again. If you're honest, you're poor your whole life, and in the end you wind up dyin' all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothin'. For a tin star.

High Noon · 1952
★ 3.5
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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.