Yancy Derringer1958

John Colton:
Since becoming administrator of this city, I've come across a very astonishing fact. From the highest to the lowest places - particularly the lowest - your name is being spoken with the greatest respect.

Yancy Derringer:
Well, I've been around the track.

John Colton:
I want you to work for me.

Yancy Derringer:
I'm a rebel, Mr. Colton.

John Colton:
Ex-rebel. The war is over, Mr. Derringer, and these are hard times. New Orleans has become a treasure chest. The fortune hunters of the world are here. I want a man who loves this city, loves the South, who'll work without pay, without portfolio, without protection, as my personal agent.

Yancy Derringer:
Sounds like absolutely nothing.

John Colton:
I want an angel, a black angel, who'll be on the inside before something happens, a man who'll do anything for law and order, anything and get away with it, because if that man were ever caught, Mr. Derringer, I might be compelled to hang him.

Yancy Derringer:
Charming proposition.