Tom Doniphon: [Valance has tripped Rance in the diner, causing him to spill a tray of food] That's *my* steak, Valance.
Liberty Valance: [laughing] You heard him, Dude. Pick it up.
Ransom Stoddard: No!
Tom Doniphon: Pilgrim, hold it. I said you, Valance; *you* pick it up.
Liberty Valance: Three against one, Doniphon.
Tom Doniphon: My boy, Pompey; kitchen door.
[Valance looks and sees Pompey at the door holding a rifle]
Floyd: I'll get it, Liberty!
[Doniphon kicks Floyd in the face as he bends down to retrieve the tray]
7 comments:
Isn't "Pilgrim" from "True Grit"? Or am I getting that mixed up with "corn dodger"?
It's a recurring line that the Duke used in a lot of movies.
Wayne and Stewart were both well into their 50s in this movie. The only one who was age appropriate was Lee Marvin and even he was pushing it.
Well there weren't any stars who could handle those roles. And guess what, there aren't any now.
Who are they gonna use, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise?
They don't make 'em like the Duke and Jimmy Stewart anymore.
Oh they make like that still Trooper; just none of 'em go to Hollyweird.
I love the lessons in this movie; especially the way the shooting of Valance comes about.
Tom could have taken Valanace out at any time, and both of them knew it; consequently Valance kept his head when Tom were Tom was concerned.
It was the pending shooting of Stoddard that caused, not to step out and face down Valance man to man as the code required, but to shoot him from ambush, so Stoddard could look good to the girl, teh girl Tom loved.
He broke the Code to keep the girl happy, something that wouldn't have happened had Tom stepped into thr street.
And then he admits to the Pilgrim that he shot the man form ambush.
I have always finished that movie wondering; did he really shoot Valance, or did he make up the story to keep Stoddard in the race for represenative?
Not that Tom wasn't capable of teh shot, but was he capable of teh ambush?
Isn't it somewhat ambiguous at the end whether or not Tom has shot Valance for Ransom, or Tom has claimed to shoot Valance because Ransom would fret over it?
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