The Black Cat - Accusations and Insults Between Brothers
Montague Hartley: [talking to Gil]
This is on a par with your other stupid accusations!
Richard Hartley:
Yes, two more brains and he'd be a half-wit.
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The Black Cat - Confrontation Between Hubert and Richard
Hubert Smith:
Oh, then you're the guy that slugged me.
Richard Hartley:
Yeah, and I'll do it again any time you train down to my weight.
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The Blue Dahlia - Memory of a Past Encounter
Johnny Morrison:
Last night when I made myself walk out on you, remember? I said every guy had seen you before. Somewhere.
Joyce Harwood:
I remember.
Johnny Morrison:
But the trick was to find you.
Joyce Harwood:
I remember that, too. Do you think I'd ever forget it?
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The Blue Dahlia - A Conversation About Law Enforcement Attention
Eddie Harwood:
Half the cops in L.A. are looking for you.
Johnny Morrison:
Only half?
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The Blue Dahlia - Room Inquiry in San Francisco
Corelli:
You still want that room?
Johnny Morrison: [sarcastically]
If you're sure nobody's dead in it?
Corelli:
Right back this way. You live in San Francisco?
Johnny Morrison:
Yeah, when I'm there.
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The Blue Dahlia - Motel Recommendations and Flea Concerns
Man Recommending a Motel: [walking into the cheap motel]
Clean sheets every day they tell me.
Johnny Morrison:
How often do they change the fleas?
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The Blue Dahlia - The Challenge of Saying Goodbye
Joyce Harwood:
Well, don't you even say Good night'?
Johnny Morrison:
It's "good-bye", and it's tough to say good-bye.
Joyce Harwood:
Why is it? You've never seen me before tonight.
Johnny Morrison:
Every guy's seen you before somewhere. The trick is to find you.
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The Blue Dahlia - Facing the Consequences of Choices
Johnny Morrison:
I'm sorry, but nothing seems funny to me tonight. It all blows up in your face sometimes.
Joyce Harwood:
What does?
Johnny Morrison:
Whatever you're doing, whereever you're going.
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The Blue Dahlia - Strangers and Choices in Unexpected Situations
Joyce Harwood: [offering Johnny a lift as it rains heavily]
Get in.
Joyce Harwood:
Well, you could get wetter if you lie down in the gutter.
Johnny Morrison:
You oughta have more sense than to take chances with strangers like this.
Joyce Harwood:
Funny, but practically all the people I know were strangers when I met them. I'm going to Malibu. Is that any use to you?
Johnny Morrison:
What's in Malibu?
Joyce Harwood:
Houses, people. I have some friends there.
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The Blue Dahlia - Mistaken Identity in The Blue Dahlia
Johnny Morrison: [discovering his wife in close proximity to Eddie Harwood]
You've got the wrong lipstick on, Mister.
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The Blue Dahlia - Questioning Manners and Perception
Johnny Morrison: [to the partygoers]
Seems I've lost my manners or would anyone here know the difference?
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Shane - Confrontation and Realization in the Face of Danger
Joey: [after the gun battle]
Shane! I knew you could, Shane. I knew it. I knew it just as well as anything. Was that him? Was that Wilson?
Shane:
That was him. That was Wilson alright. He was fast - fast on the draw. Joey, what are you doing here?
Joey:
I'm sorry, Shane.
Shane:
You don't have to be. You'd better run back.
Joey:
Can I ride home behind you?
Shane:
Afraid not, Joey.
Joey:
Please, why not?
Shane:
I gotta be goin on.
Joey:
Why, Shane?
Shane:
A man has to be what he is, Joey. You can't break the mold. I tried it and it didn't work for me.
Joey:
We want you, Shane.
Shane:
Joey, there's no living with, with a killing. There's no going back from it. Right or wrong, it's a brand, a brand that sticks. There's no going back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her, tell her everything's alright, and there aren't any more guns in the valley.
Joey:
Shane, it's bloody. You're hurt.
Shane:
I'm alright, Joey. You go home to your mother and your father. And grow up to be strong and straight. And Joey, take care of them, both of them.
Joey: [Tears well up in Joey's eyes]
Yes, Shane. He'd never have been able to shoot you - if you'd have seen him.
Shane:
Bye, little Joe.
Joey: [calling after him]
He never even would have cleared the holster, would he, Shane? Pa's got things for you to do, and Mother wants you. I know she does. Shane. Shane! Come back! Bye, Shane.
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Shane - Confrontation Between Shane and Ryker
Shane:
I came to get your offer, Ryker.
Ryker:
I'm not dealing with you. Where's Starrett?
Shane:
You're dealing with me, Ryker.
Ryker:
I got no quarrel with you, Shane. You walk out now and no hard feelings.
Shane:
What's your offer, Ryker?
Ryker:
To you, not a thing.
Shane:
That's too bad.
Ryker:
Too bad?
Shane:
Yeah, you've lived too long. Your kind of days are over.
Ryker:
My days! What about yours, gunfighter?
Shane:
The difference is I know it.
Ryker:
All right. So we'll all turn in our six-guns to the bartender. We'll all start hoeing spuds. Is that it?
Shane: [to Wilson]
Not quite yet. We haven't heard from your friend here.
Wilson:
I wouldn't push too far if I were you. Our fight ain't with you.
Shane:
It ain't with me, Wilson?
Wilson:
No it ain't, Shane.
Ryker: [to Will Atkey]
I wouldn't pull on Wilson, Shane. Will, you're a witness to this.
Shane:
So you're Jack Wilson.
Wilson:
What's that mean to you, Shane?
Shane:
I've heard about you.
Wilson:
And what've you heard, Shane?
Shane:
I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee liar.
Wilson:
Prove it.
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Shane - A Decision Driven by Love and Loyalty
Marion:
You were through with gun-fighting?
Shane:
I changed my mind.
Marion: [softly]
Are you doing this just for me?
Shane:
For you, Marion - for Joe - and little Joe.
Marion:
Then we'll never see you again?
Shane:
Never's a long time, ma'am. Tell him, tell him I was sorry.
Marion:
No need to tell him that.
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Shane - Defending Home and Family in Adversity
Joe:
Torrey was a pretty brave man, and I figure we'd be doin wrong if we wasn't the same...We can have a regular settlement here, we can have a town and churches and a school...We've just got to, that's all...We can't give up this valley and we ain't gonna do it. This is farmin country, a place where people can come and bring up their families. Who is Rufe Ryker or anyone else to run us away from our own homes? He only wants to grow his beef and what we want to grow up is families, to grow em good and grow em, grow em up strong, the way they was meant to be grown. God didn't make all this country just for one man like Ryker.
Lewis:
He's got it though and that's what counts.
Shane:
You know what he wants you to stay for? Something that means more to you than anything else - your families. Your wives and kids. Like you, Lewis, your girls; Shipstead with his boys. They've got a right to stay here and grow up and be happy. That's up to you people to have nerve enough to not give it up.
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Shane - Unexpected Visitors at the Starrett Homestead
Morgan: [greeting Starrett's wagon]
Alright. Alright. I'll open the gate for ya.
Joe:
Who goes there?
Morgan:
Brother Rufe's come to pay you a little visit.
Ryker:
Howdy, Starrett. Evening, Ma'am. I had something I wanted to talk over with you Starrett.
Joe:
Whatever business you and I got we can say it right here.
Ryker:
I'll just lay it on the barrel-head then. How'd you like to work for me?
Joe:
I work for myself. I've done enough working for others.
Ryker:
Wait till I tell ya. I'll pay ya top wages, more than you can make on this patch of ground.
Joe:
Nope. I'm not interested.
Ryker:
I haven't said it all. You can run your cattle with mine. What's more I'll buy your homestead. Set a price you think is reasonable, you'll find me reasonable. Is that fair?
Joe:
You've made things pretty hard for us, Ryker, and us in the right all the time.
Ryker:
Right? You in the right! Look, Starrett. When I come to this country, you weren't much older than your boy there. We had rough times, me and other men that are mostly dead now. I got a bad shoulder yet from a Cheyenne arrowhead. We made this country. Found it and we made it. We worked with blood and empty bellies. The cattle we brought in were hazed off by Indians and rustlers. They don't bother you much anymore because we handled em. We made a safe range out of this. Some of us died doin it but we made it. And then people move in who've never had to rawhide it through the old days. They fence off my range, and fence me off from water. Some of em like you plow ditches, take out irrigation water. And so the creek runs dry sometimes and I've got to move my stock because of it. And you say we have no right to the range. The men that did the work and ran the risks have no rights? I take you for a fair man, Starrett.
Joe:
I'm not belittlin what you and the others did. At the same time, you didn't find this country. There was trappers here and Indian traders long before you showed up and they tamed this country more than you did.
Ryker:
They weren't ranchers.
Joe:
You talk about rights. You think you've got the right to say that nobody else has got any. Well, that ain't the way the government looks at it.
Ryker:
I didn't come to argue. I made you a fair proposition.
Joe:
What about the others?
Ryker:
Shane already knows he can work for me anytime.
Joe:
The other homesteaders.
Ryker:
Look, be reasonable! After all, there's only so many hands in a deck of cards.
Joe:
Then I've got to say no.
Ryker: [to Joey]
You don't give a man much choice do you, Starrett? How do you feel about it, son? Wouldn't you like to go partners with me? I don't want trouble with your father. We don't want anyone to get hurt, do we?
Joe:
Joey ain't quite of age, Ryker.
Ryker:
What d'you say, son?.
Marion:
Come up here, Joey.
Ryker: [he leaves]
I don't want you to be sorry, Starrett. I'll see ya. .
Joe: [to Shane, watching the retreating Wilson]
What do you make of him?
Shane:
He's no cowpuncher.
Joe::
No. He don't look the part sure enough.
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Shane - The Nature of Tools and Responsibility
Marion:
Guns aren't going to be my boy's life.
Joey:
Why do you always have to spoil everything?
Shane:
A gun is a tool, Marion. No better and no worse than any other tool - an axe, a shovel, or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.
Marion:
We'd all be much better off if there wasn't a single gun left in this valley - including yours.
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Shane - The Choice of Carrying a Sidearm
Joey:
Why don't you ever wear your six-shooter, Shane?
Shane:
Well, I guess I don't see as many bad men as you do.
Shane:
One, for instance, likes to have a shoulder holster. Another one puts it in his - the belt of his pants. And there are some who like two guns. But one's all you need if you can use it.
Joey:
Which is the best way?
Shane:
What I'm telling you is a good a way as any and better than most.
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Shane - Superstitions Affecting Decision-Making Among Friends
Chris: [to Pete]
Well now, looky here what we got. That’s one of the new ones. We call him Sody-pop.
Pete:
Deal me out.
Chris:
Why, what's the matter, Pete?
Pete:
Just say I'm superstitious.
Chris: [to Shane]
I guess you don’t hear very well, sodbuster. I told you that if you wanted to stay healthy you’d keep out of here. Look pig farmer, you’d better get back inside with the women and kids where it’s safe.... D’you hear me? Get goin’.
Shane:
Don’t push it, Calloway.
Chris:
Did you think you were goin’ to come in here and drink with the men?
Chris:
You ain’t going to drink that in here.
Shane:
You guessed it.
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Shane - The Shift from Open Range to Homesteading
Joe:
These old-timers, they just can't see it yet, but runnin cattle on an open range just can't go on forever. It takes too much space for too little results. Those herds aren't any good. They're all horns and bone. Now, cattle that is bred for meat and fenced in and fed right - that's the thing. You gotta pick your spot, get your land, your own land. Now a homesteader, he can't run but a few beef. But he can sure grow grain and cut hay. And then what with his garden and the hogs and milk, well, he'll make out all right. We make out, don't we, Marion?
Marion: [pause]
Of course.
Joe:
I wouldn't ask you where you're bound.
Shane:
One place or another. Some place I've never been.
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Shane - Conflict Over a Beef Contract
Ryker:
Howdy Starrett.
Morgan:
specting trouble?
Ryker:
I don't want no trouble, Starrett. I came to inform ya. I got that beef contract for the reservation.
Joe:
Did it take this many of you to tell me that?
Ryker:
I mean business.
Joe:
Then you tend to your own.
Ryker:
That's just what I'm doing! I'm telling ya now, I'm gonna need all my range.
Joe:
Now that you've warned me, would you mind gettin off my place?
Ryker:
Your place! You're gonna have to get out before the snow flies.
Joe:
And supposin I don't?
Ryker:
You and the other squatters...
Joe:
Homesteaders, you mean, don't you?
Ryker:
I could blast you out of here right now, you and the others.
Joe:
Now you listen to me, the time for gun-blastin a man off of his own place is past. Why, they're building a penitentiary right now...
Marion: [interrupting]
Joe, that's enough.
Morgan: [to Shane]
Who are you, stranger?
Shane:
I'm a friend of Starrett's.
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Shane - The Value of Observation and Awareness
Shane:
You were watchin me down the trail for quite a spell, weren't you?
Joey:
Yes I was.
Shane:
You know, I... hoe de hohoho I like a man who watches things go on around. It means he'll make his mark someday.
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