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Drum Beat (1954) was a Western - Film directed by Delmer Daves and produced by Alan Ladd and Delmer Daves.

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Nancy Meek: Johnny, I just learned something.
Johnny MacKay: Yes?
Nancy Meek: Why women in the West seem happier than those back East.
Johnny MacKay: Red women or white?
Nancy Meek: Both. It's knowing they're needed. If a woman's needed - if she knows she's wanted... I'm going to stay. I think I can be needed here. I hope I will be.
Minister: You'll never what for anything in heaven, Jack. When you go through those Pearly Gates, you'll find everything there... even without asking for it.
Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack: You say this heaven nice place, huh? You like this place, heaven?
Minister: Yes, it's a beautiful place!
Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack: Then I tell you what, Preacher. You like it so much, you take my place out there.
[indicates the gallows outside his jail cell]
Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack: You go to heaven instead of me. What do you say?
Minister: Well now, I'll be ready when the great day comes.
Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack: You not ready now... me not ready, neither!
[discussing Captain Jack]
President Ulysses S. Grant: What kind of man is he?
Johnny MacKay: Well, some people say he's got a little white blood in him because of his white eye... but I think it's mostly bad blood.
Bill Satterwhite: Peace is going to be awfully hard to get.
Johnny MacKay: That's your business... not mine!
Bill Satterwhite: Bill, I need your help. Don't go running off half wild killin' Modocs. Only one got Lily.
Johnny MacKay: You think she was worth only one of them devils? You dish our your peace, Johnny. I'll dish out my end!
Johnny MacKay: [narrating] And thus ended the killing in the Modoc country, and the peace began amoung our people that lives to this day. A peace that wasn't won by just wanting it, but costs plenty - but left scars. But it showed the country something we had to learn and remember - that among the Indians, as amongst our people, the good in heart outnumber the bad, and they will offer their lives to prove it.
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Drum Beat Fact
General Edward Canby, whose death is depicted in this movie, was in reality the only U.S. army general killed during the American Indian Wars. "General" G. A. Custer, killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876, was not in fact a general at the time of his death. After the Civil War, he held the permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
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