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 Joel McCrea Quotation"I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor." Movie Title: Colorado Territory (1949) as Wes McQueen: Wes McQueen : It reminds me of a little heist we planned in west Kansas about five or six years ago. One fella was smooth and slippery. The other was green and gabby. The third was just plain mean, from the top of his head to his boot heel. The next thing we know, there was a boxcar of soldiers coupled to that train. Too bad we never knew which one sent word to the soldiers. It would have been better for the other two if we had. Their monuments are right outside Boxville, Kansas. The prettiest little Bone Orchard you've ever seen. Little stone angels watching them. Movie Title: Fort Massacre (1958) as Sgt. Vinson: [Vinson's cavalry patrol hurriedly buries a dead trooper] Sgt. Vinson : Collins, that deep enough. Roll him in and cover him up. Let's move! Pvt. Collins : You mean without reading the Good Book? Sgt. Vinson : If he needs our help to make it upstairs, he's in worse shape than he looks. Sgt. Vinson : I need a six-foot hole dug. Any volunteers? Pvt. McGurney : Don't look at me, Sergeant. I'm too overcome with grief. Pvt. Pendelton : Well, I certainly can't do that! Pvt. Collins : All right, I'll be the goat. Half the tobacco? Pvt. McGurney : Collins, three feet will be plenty. He was only half a man. Movie Title: Stranger on Horseback (1955) as Thorne: [After water's thrown in his face.] Thorne : Thanks, it's a hot day. Baddie: I don't like what you said. Thorne : I said it was a hot day. Baddie: Well, I don't like the way you said it. Movie Title: The Virginian (1946) as Virginian: Steve Andrews : A fine way to treat a lady! Virginian : How was I to know she was a lady? She was with you, wasn't she? Virginian : When you call me that, smile. Trampas : With a gun against my belly, I always smile. Movie Title: Foreign Correspondent (1940) as Johnny Jones (Huntley Haverstock) / Johnny Jones / John Jones: Captain of Mohican : Mr. Haverstock, I want a talk with you. Johnny Jones (Huntley Haverstock) : Yes sir? Captain of Mohican : I just found out you're a newspaperman. Johnny Jones : I guess that's right. Captain of Mohican : Oh, it is, eh? Why didn't you tell me that when I questioned you? You lied to me, sir! Johnny Jones : My dear captain, when you've been shot down in a British plane by a German destroyer, 300 miles off the coast of England (latitude 45), and have been hanging on to a half-submerged wing for hours, waiting to drown, with half a dozen other stricken human beings, you're liable to forget you're a newspaperman for a moment or two! Johnny Jones : I'm in love with a girl, and I'm going to help hang her father. Johnny Jones : I'm in love with you, and I want to marry you. Carol Fisher : I'm in love with you, and I want to marry you. Johnny Jones : Hmm... that cuts down our love scene quite a bit, doesn't it? Johnny Jones : I came 4,000 miles to get a story. I get shot at like a duck in a shooting gallery, I get pushed off buildings, I *get* the story, and then I've got to shut up! [Radio broadcast from London] Johnny Jones : Hello, America. I've been watching a part of the world being blown to pieces. A part of the world as nice as Vermont, and Ohio [siren sounds] Johnny Jones : , and Virginia, and California, and Illinois lies ripped up and bleeding like a steer in a slaughterhouse, and I've seen things that make the history of the savages read like Pollyanna legends. I've seen women - [bombs begin exploding] English Announcer : It's a raid; we shall have to postpone the broadcast. Johnny Jones : Oh, postpone, nothing! Let's go on as long as we can. English Announcer : Madam, we have a shelter downstairs. Johnny Jones : How about it, Carol? Carol Fisher : They're listening in America, Johnny. Johnny Jones : Okay, we'll tell 'em, then. I can't read the rest of the speech I had, because the lights have gone out, so I'll just have to talk off the cuff. All that noise you hear isn't static - it's death, coming to London. Yes, they're coming here now. You can hear the bombs falling on the streets and the homes. Don't tune me out, hang on a while - this is a big story, and you're part of it. It's too late to do anything here now except stand in the dark and let them come... as if the lights were all out everywhere, except in America. Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, ring them with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them. Hello, America, hang on to your lights: they're the only lights left in the world! John Jones : If you knew how much I love you, you'd faint. Movie Title: Sullivan's Travels (1941) as John L. Sullivan: John L. Sullivan : I want this picture to be a ... document. I want to hold a mirror up to life. I want this to be a picture of dignity ... a true canvas of the suffering of humanity. LeBrand : But with a little sex in it. John L. Sullivan : [reluctantly] But with a little sex in it. The Girl : I liked you better as a bum. John L. Sullivan : I can't help what kind of people you like. John L. Sullivan : There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that's all some people have? Burrows : Good morning, sir. Burrows : I don't like it at all, sir. Fancy dress, I take it? John L. Sullivan : What's the matter with it? Burrows : I have never been sympathetic to the caricaturing of the poor and nedy, sir. John L. Sullivan : Who's caricaturing? John L. Sullivan : I'm going out on the road to find out what it's like to be poor and needy and then I'm going to make a picture about it. Burrows : If you'll permit me to say so, sir, the subject is not an interesting one. The poor know all about poverty and only the morbid rich would find the topic glamorous. John L. Sullivan : But I'm doing it for the poor. Don't you understand? Burrows : I doubt if they would appreciate it, sir. They rather resent the invasion of their privacy, I believe quite properly, sir. Also, such excursions can be extremely dangerous, sir. I worked for a gentleman once who likewise, with two friends, accoutered themselves as you have, sir, and then went out for a lark. They have not been heard from since. [discussing a prior 'serious' film] LeBrand : It died in Pittsburgh. Hadrian : Like a dog! John L. Sullivan : Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh.... Hadrian : They know what they like. John L. Sullivan : If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh! Movie Title: The Most Dangerous Game (1932) as Bob Rainsford: Doc: I was thinking of the inconsistency of civilization. The beast of the jungle, killing just for his existence, is called savage. The man, killing just for sport, is called civilized. It's a bit inconsistent, isn't it? Bob Rainsford : Now just a minute. What makes you think it isn't just as much sport for the animal as it is for the man. Now take that fellow, for instance. There never was a time when he couldn't have gotten away, but he didn't want to. He got interested in hunting me. He didn't hate me for stalking him anymore than I hated him for trying to charge me. As a matter of fact, we admired each other. Doc: Perhaps, but would you change places with the tiger? Bob Rainsford : Well, not *now*. Movie Title: Union Pacific (1939) as Jeff Butler: Jeff Butler : I don't believe I'll need bodyguards. General Casement : You'll need 'em, alright. Fiesta : You think we no good, eh? Jeff Butler : No, it's not that... Leach Overmile : We've had a lot of experience, Captain. We bodyguarded the last two troubleshooters right up to the very minute they was killed. Movie Title: Chance at Heaven (1933) as Blacky Gorman: Blacky Gorman : Funny how a good kick in the pants will make a guy's head work. Movie Title: Buffalo Bill (1944) as William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : What killed my son? Doctor : Diptheria. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : What's that? Doctor : A germ. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Where does it come from? Doctor : Water systems... and sewage. It's a crowd disease. A disease of civilization. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Mr. President. Ladies and Gentlemen. I was afraid I was going to make a fool of myself in front of you tonight. But that would have been all right, because a man can make a fool of himself when he's off his own stamping grounds. But when a man makes a fool of himself on his own stamping grounds, there's no excuse for him. I don't hold with General Sherman that a good Indian is a dead Indian. From what I've seen, the Indian is a free-born American who'll fight for his folks, for his land and for his living... just like any other American. Ned Buntline : You know the Indian, Cody, don't you? William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Nobody knows the Indian. I've had to fight them since I was fourteen. Pony Express, stage driver, scouting. Indians never do what you'd expect. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : When you do an Indian a favor, he never forgets it. But if you do him bad, he never forgets that either. Louisa Frederici Cody : What is she doing here all alone? William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : She's just old. When Indians get too old to travel, why they're left behind with a little food and fuel. Louisa Frederici Cody : To die? William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Yeah. Louisa Frederici Cody : That's terrible! Can't we do something for her? William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : It's the way of the people. There's nothing we can do. Louisa Frederici Cody : Here am I, going to bring a new life into the world, and leaving an old woman to die. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : That's nature's way, Louisa. When anything becomes too old to be useful, it's just pushed aside. Louisa Frederici Cody : But it shouldn't be! That's why we have civilization! Yellow Hand : Now there is no debt and no friendship between us. If we meet in battle, as a brave of the Cheyenne, I will take the scalp of Pahashka and hang it on his lodge pole. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : It may be easier to hang it than to take it, Yellow Hand. Sgt. Chips : I've been waiting for you. Somebody has written you a letter. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Who, me? Sgt. Chips : That's right, my boy. Who in the world would be writing to you? William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : I don't know, but if you give me the letter, I'll find out. Sgt. Chips : You'll get yours in your proper turn. The mail is delivered according to rank. And there's plenty ranker than you! Movie Title: The Palm Beach Story (1942) as Tom Jeffers: Tom Jeffers : So this fellow gave you the look? Gerry Jeffers : At his age it was more of a blink. Tom Jeffers : Seven hundred dollars and sex didn't even enter into it, I suppose? Gerry Jeffers : Sex always has something to do with it, dear. Tom Jeffers : Funny having to sleep with a sitting-room between us. Gerry Jeffers : And the doors locked. Tom Jeffers : You don't have to worry about that. Tom Jeffers : Where'd you get that dress? Gerry Jeffers : Why, that's what I've been telling you about! Tom Jeffers : What's that on your wrist? Gerry Jeffers : It's just what you think it is, dear. [He looks at the bracelet on her wrist] Tom Jeffers : What kind of stones are those? Gerry Jeffers : Just what they look like. Tom Jeffers : Do you know what it feels like to be strangled by bare hands?! Movie Title: These Three (1936) as Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin: Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin : When three people come to you with their lives spread out on a table for you to cut to pieces, then the only honest thing for you to do is to give them a chance to come out whole. Movie Title: Ride the High Country (1962) as Steve Judd / Judd: Steve Judd : All I want is to enter my house justified. Elsa : My father says there's only right and wrong - good and evil. Nothing in between. It isn't that simple, is it? Judd : No, it isn't. It should be, but it isn't. |
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