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John Wayne
(as Ethan Edwards)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
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Martin:
You know, Laurie, I was just thinking that maybe it's about time you and me started going steady, huh?
Laurie Jorgensen: Why, Martin Pawley, you and me been going steady since we was three years old! Martin: We have? Laurie Jorgensen: 'Bout time you found out about it.
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Vera Miles
(as Laurie Jorgensen)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
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Laurie Jorgensen:
[Martin is preparing to join a raid against the Indians and rescue Debbie] You're not goin', not this time.
Martin: Are you crazy? Laurie Jorgensen: It's too late. She's a woman grown now. Martin: But I gotta go, Laurie, I gotta fetch her home. Laurie Jorgensen: Fetch what home? The leavings a Comanche buck sold time and again to the highest bidder, with savage brats of her own? Martin: Laurie, shut your mouth. Laurie Jorgensen: Do you know what Ethan will do if he has a chance? He'll put a bullet in her brain. [pause] Laurie Jorgensen: I tell you, Martha would want him to. Martin: Only if I'm dead.
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Jeffrey Hunter
(as Martin Pawley)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
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Laurie Jorgensen:
[reading a letter from Martin on his Indian wife] "She wasn't nearly as old as you." How old does he think I am?
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Vera Miles
(as Laurie Jorgensen)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
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Lars Jorgensen:
It's this country killed my boy. Yes by golly I tell you, Ethan...
Mrs. Jorgensen: No Lars. It just so happens we be Texicans. Texican is nothing but a human man way out on a limb. This year and next, and maybe for a hundred more. But I don't think it'll be forever. Some day this country's gonna be a fine, good place to be. Maybe it needs our bones in the ground before that time can come.
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Olive Carey
(as Mrs. Jorgensen)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
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Lars Jorgensen:
Two letters in one year! By golly!
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John Qualen
(as Lars Jorgensen)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
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[after a double-take, Ethan and Martin recognize Debbie as the captive who shows them a lance of human scalps in Chief Scar's tent]
Ethan: We've seen scalps before. Chief Scar: [shows them the gold locket that Ethan gave Debbie] This before? Ethan: [to Figuroa] I came to trade, not to admire his collection. Tell him we'll pitch camp the other side of the creek. Talk tomorrow.
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John Wayne
(as Ethan Edwards)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
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[first lines]
[seeing a horseman in the distance] Aaron Edwards: Ethan? Debbie Edwards: Hush, Prince. Lucy Edwards: That's your Uncle Ethan! Martha Edwards: [he approaches] Welcome home, Ethan!
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Dorothy Jordan
(as Martha Edwards)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
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Ethan:
Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time; I took mine to the Confederate States of America.
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John Wayne
(as Ethan Edwards)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
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Reverend Clayton:
Ethan, I gotta ask you and Martin to take a ride to State Capital.
Ethan: Is this an invite to a necktie party, Reverend?
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John Wayne
(as Ethan Edwards)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
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