Quotes of Movie: Apache Drums [1951]
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If I live to bury Joe Madden, I'll say only four words over his grave: This was a man. I got a knack at healing. I know something about it. Sam Leeds: Look, you're a great horse doctor, Joe, and... Joe Madden: There isn't much difference between a horse and a human. At least I know how to get started. You wouldn't even know that. Do you realize that men have been given as much as twenty years in federal prison for giving liquor to an Indian? Lt. Glidden: You see they don't drink to get drunk. Their drinking is like praying. And then they kill. | |
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Sam Leeds: No bullets, no protection... not even anything worth taking a last look at. Reverend Griffin: It is God's earth, man. You wouldn't reject it in the hour of your death. I guess the winning hand always comes up after the game has been played. That's the way it always is. The kid can ride! Joe Madden: How do you know? Mr. Keon: I ought to know, I'm his Pa. Joe Madden: There might be a big war party out there. Bert Keon: Let me ride my own horse, and there's not an Indian pony that will even smell his dust. I like your notion, Reverend, that Apaches are just evils the Lord created to try honest men. I'm saved! I'm not an honest man. Some men are makers. They got to sweat for what they want. I'm a taker. I got to be one. Sally: You could be good and honest. Sam Leeds: I saw my father work his heart out on a lathe in Bridgeport. He died young and he died broke. He was an honest man. I never want to be one. Look, Reverend, you give a dog a bad name and everybody throws a stone at him. Sure, I gamble. I drink, too. I killed a man who was trying to kill me. This is a rough country and you got to take care of yourself. It's a kind of pity that I only like bad men and want to make them good. You feel it's my fault that you're out here, huh? Rev. Griffin: I put no blame on you now. Sam Leeds: Well, if it'd make you feel any better, you were right. Rev. Griffin: About what? Sam Leeds: I never really cared about the town needin' water, I just wanted to show what a smart fellow I was - I wanted Sally to see that, and make a fool out of Joe. Now I only wish I could tell her I was wrong - about a lot of things. Rev. Griffin: She will know. Sam Leeds and I have fought together - we saw death ride up to us. I feel I know this man - there's good in him - the kind of good that will help the town you love so much, Joe Madden. Sally, I've been thinking about Sam - - Sam and me. He's done fine tonight. In a bad spot like this, he's the best help a man could have. Sally: Sometimes it's easier to be brave than honest, Joe. Woman, thy name is Babylon and Abomination! Betty Careless: Don't call me names! Just make me an offer on the building - - and remember - - I won't take a loss! | |
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