Quotes from Intruder in the Dust (1949)
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Miss Eunice Habersham:
[Cooly to Crawford Gowrie as he stands menacingly in the entrance to the jail with a can of gasoline] Please stay out of my light so I can thread my needle.
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Elizabeth Patterson
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Intruder in the Dust
(1949)
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Sheriff Hampton:
[Beginning to cook breakfast] Who can eat more'n two eggs?
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Will Geer
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Intruder in the Dust
(1949)
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Sheriff Hampton:
[to Uncle John] You're the lawyer. You're the talker.
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Will Geer
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Intruder in the Dust
(1949)
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John Gavin Stevens:
[to Chick as he looks out over the crowds in town] They don't know it out there, but he does. He knows he's finished. He's running through his last few pennies of freedom, and, I reckon, he's gonna spend them the only way he knows... on revenge.
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David Brian
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Intruder in the Dust
(1949)
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John Gavin Stevens:
[to Chick] In matters of life and death a man's vocabulary is almighty small.
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David Brian
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Intruder in the Dust
(1949)
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John Gavin Stevens:
[to Lucas in jail] Well, old man, you've the Devil to pay this time!
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David Brian
in
Intruder in the Dust
(1949)
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John Gavin Stevens:
[to Lucas] You don't want justice; you want mercy.
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David Brian
in
Intruder in the Dust
(1949)
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John Gavin Stevens:
Mr. Hampton is right Miss Eunice, and so are you. They'd pass even Will Legate sooner or later when there's enough of them.
John Gavin Stevens: [pause] But there's one thing that would stop them. Long enough anyhow. John Gavin Stevens: [pause] And that's somebody without a gun. John Gavin Stevens: [pause] A Lady. A White Lady.
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David Brian
in
Intruder in the Dust
(1949)
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Crawford Gowrie:
Miss Haversham, I'm not gonna touch yuh now. You're an old lady, but you're in the wrong. You're fightin' the whole county, but you're gonna get tired, and when yuh do get tired, we're gonna go in.
Miss Eunice Habersham: [Unflustered] I'm goin' for eighty, and I'm not tired yet.
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Elizabeth Patterson
in
Intruder in the Dust
(1949)
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