"Some bully shot!"
Okay, yes, it was the second greatest line in movie history*, but it's one of the GREATEST exchanges in movie history. Unfortunately, that vid I posted below ended before the culmination of the scene. Which was way cool.
Here is some more of it. If you ever get a chance to see this movie in its entirety, take it.
UPDATE: I'd forgotten this exchange:
"Dammit. That Texan, when you need him he's dead."
"I ain't dead yet, you bushwhacker! Hang on."
[...]
"That Texan. Saved my neck twice. Once after he was dead."
You need to see this movie.
AND MORE:
"We can't leave him like this."
"I'm the one leaving him like this, but if we don't get you to a doctor you'll be deader than he is."
"Little Blackie can't carry us both."
"He'll have to, he's all I could catch."
MORE UPDATE: HAHAHA! Couldn't pass this one up:
"Poor child, she does not know how ill she really is."
"Well, lawyer J. Nobel Daggett, ar you a betting man?"
"On occasion."
"All of this and General Price that Baby Sis makes it back to Yell (sp?) County."
"Oh no. No sir."
Do listen to the whole clip. And to this:
"Well, come and see a fat, old man sometime!"
*Yes, this excludes the Great and Powerful Casablanca. There is too much too cool about that one. But perhaps I will embed some of its coolness sometime.
Iz out!
2 months ago
3 comments:
That movie has a very high good-lines-to-minutes ratio. A couple of real good ones are in the courtroom scene.
Slimy defense lawyer: "I believe you testified that you backed away from old man Wharton?"
Rooster Cogburn: "Yes, sir."
SDL: "Which direction were you going?"
Rooster: "Backward. I always go backward when I'm backin' away."
and
SDL: "How many men have you shot since you became a marshal, Mr. Cogburn?"
Rooster: "I never shot nobody I didn't have to."
SDL: "That was not the question. How many?"
Rooster: "Uh... shot or killed?"
SDL: "Oh, let's restrict it to 'killed' so we may have a manageable figure."
It is Yell County, of which Dardanelle is one of the county seats.
(Back before, you know, ROADS, I guess, the counties in Arkansas that are divided by the Arkansas River had two county seats. They still do, for what reasons I cannot imagine.)
A great show! The Duke was outstanding in that one!
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