The Plainsman (1936)

Gary Cooper: Wild Bill Hickok

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• Calamity Jane : Tip your hat when you speak to a lady!

  Wild Bill Hickok : I will... when I speak to a lady.

• Wild Bill Hickok : Keep your hands off your guns or there will be more dead men here than this town can afford to bury!

• Wild Bill Hickok : What started you on the warpath, Yellow Hand?

  Yellow Hand : Where sun rise, white man's land. Where sun set, Indian land. White man come, take our land, kill buffalo, our food. White man promise us food. White man lie. Now Cheyenne buy white man thunder stick. Soon war drum sound in all Indian land. All tribes ride with Yellow Hand. We drive white man, like buffalo, away back to rising sun. Yellow Hand has spoken.

• Tony : Hey, why don't you get a haircut?

  Wild Bill Hickok : Short hair makes the Indians mad, and they're mad enough already.

• Wild Bill Hickok : That river clipper is saying good-bye to you, ma'am. Now you're going to have three long days of this prairie clipper.

  Louisa Cody : But tomorrow is Sunday. Do we have to ride on Sunday?

  Wild Bill Hickok : Well, there's no Sunday west of Junction City, no law west of Hayes City and no God west of Carson City.

• John Lattimer : I'm not armed, Mr. Hickok, I'm not armed!

  Wild Bill Hickok : I'll give you three minutes to fix that. I'll be waiting outside.

  John Lattimer : I'm just leaving town.

  Wild Bill Hickok : You're not leaving town unless dead men can walk.

• Calamity Jane : Bill Hickok, you ornery son-of-a-mule! You wouldn't give a bad dime to a sick kid, would you?

  Wild Bill Hickok : You might be right, Calamity.

  Calamity Jane : No, I ain't. I know it, I ain't worth a bad dime.

• Wild Bill Hickok : Son, one of these days, you're going to grow up and you ought to know about women. You see, the thing is this - women are... uh, well, they're uh... Well, son, I can tell you what an Indian will do to ya, but you never know what a woman will do.

• Wild Bill Hickok : It's easier sliding up Niagara Falls than it is to understand a woman.

• Wild Bill Hickok : Women and me don't agree.

• Wild Bill Hickok : [Seeing McCall smoking a cigarette]  Hey! Your toothpick is on fire!

• Calamity Jane : Maybe you're just bein' nice to me because you think you won't ever see me again.

  Wild Bill Hickok : Sure, sure I'll see you again. This is a big country and trails cross sometimes.

• Wild Bill Hickok : [to Calamity Jane]  Indians will sell anything. They might sell you!

• Wild Bill Hickok : Well, I see she hasn't cut your hair - yet.

  Buffalo Bill Cody : I don't know what you mean, Bill.

  Wild Bill Hickok : Well, you know what happened to Samson when Delilah opened her barbershop.

• Wild Bill Hickok : Has she tamed you yet?

  Buffalo Bill Cody : Now, look here Bill, that ain't fair. She's different!

  Wild Bill Hickok : You're different.

  Buffalo Bill Cody : Bill, she's the finest little gal that I ever...

  Wild Bill Hickok : I know. I know.

  Buffalo Bill Cody : Come on, you gotta meet her.

  Wild Bill Hickok : No, Bill. Women and me don't agree.

• Wild Bill Hickok : Maybe I oughta shoot a coupla holes through your ears, so we'll know you. Men like you ought to be marked.

• Calamity Jane : Bill! You mangy old coyote!

  [big kiss] 

  Calamity Jane : Bill, you're back!

  [Bill wipes his mouth] 

  Calamity Jane : Aw, you four flushing old mule. You ain't wipin' it off - you're rubbin' it in. Are you gonna stay in Leavenworth?

  Wild Bill Hickok : Are you?

  Calamity Jane : I could.

  Wild Bill Hickok : I'm going on to Hays City.

• Calamity Jane : Why didn't you write me any letters, Bill?

  Wild Bill Hickok : I didn't know you could read.

  Calamity Jane : Ha! I could read if you could write.

  Wild Bill Hickok : A woman who has a fella at every station and a beau in every calvary troop west of the Missouri - that woman doesn't need any letters from me.

  Calamity Jane : Aw, Bill, those fellers didn't mean nothin' to me.

  Wild Bill Hickok : Well, they did to me.

• Calamity Jane : Is that chipmunk yours? Did you bring her with ya?

  Wild Bill Hickok : What if I did? Its none of your business.

  Calamity Jane : Ain't it? After you run out on me - you slap-sided, bird totin' rat! You brung that honky-tonk mopsy...

  Wild Bill Hickok : Shut up, Calamity!

• Wild Bill Hickok : You've been driven for three days, you change horses 14 times, don't you ever change those beads you're wearing?

  Calamity Jane : I ain't wearin' 'em cause you give 'em to me. I wear 'em cause I like beads.

• Wild Bill Hickok : He's got himself a squaw. You'll probably find him knitting or washing dishes.

  Gen. George A. Custer : What do you mean?

  Wild Bill Hickok : He's married himself to a ravishing little woman from points East.

  Gen. George A. Custer : I don't care if he married and Eskimo. You tell him to come here ready to sign.

  Wild Bill Hickok : His mind's set on starting a hotel.

  Gen. George A. Custer : There's an Indian War starting. Women lying on these plains with Indian arrows in 'em. Get Cody here.

• Louisa Cody : Mr. Hickok, Will promised me. You don't understand. I - I can't let him go.

  Wild Bill Hickok : There are things that have to be done ma'am. You know, Lincoln set a goal we have to work toward. He said the frontier must be made safe.

  Louisa Cody : Well, but, Lincoln's dead. What right of the dead to tell the living what to do.

  Wild Bill Hickok : His words are alive. Bill Cody knows that as well as I do.

• Calamity Jane : What do you think they'll do to us?

  Wild Bill Hickok : We'll soon find out.

• Yellow Hand : You, Hickok. I know you.

  Wild Bill Hickok : Speak you're own language, Yellow Hand. I'll understand.

  Yellow Hand : You. Me. Speak white man tongue. I must know - you know - what I say.

• Calamity Jane : I don't want to die Bill. I don't want you to die.

  Wild Bill Hickok : Hang onto yourself.

  Calamity Jane : You'll have to help me Bill. Just like you did the first time I saw you. Remember? I was just a kid. I had no more sense than I got now. Headin' down the grave with no brakes on. I loved you then, Bill. Just like I do now.

• Calamity Jane : Bill, every night I talk to you, wantin' you. I know you feel the same way. Won't you tell me?

  Wild Bill Hickok : What difference would that make - now?

  Calamity Jane : If only I could hear you say it once. It would give me something - to keep. Like it was kinda holy. Like I could keep it forever.

• Wild Bill Hickok : What's your guess it'll be? A boy or a girl?

  Buffalo Bill Cody : Its bound to be one or the other, isn't it?

  Wild Bill Hickok : That's customary.

• Jack McCall : You know what she done? She told the Indians that...

  Wild Bill Hickok : Well, she's a woman, isn't she.

  Townswoman : You keep out of this, Bill Hickok.

  Wild Bill Hickok : Women talk a little bit too much sometimes.

• Second Cavalry Private Working for Lattimer : All right, Mr. Long Hair, you're too durn friendly with Indians to suit me.

  Wild Bill Hickok : You shouldn't have said that, soldier.

  Second Cavalry Private Working for Lattimer : What are you gonna do about it you gun-totin' windbag?

• Wild Bill Hickok : I never was a murderer. I never did fight unless put upon.

  Louisa Cody : Thou shalt not kill.

  Wild Bill Hickok : No ghost ever come bothering me. There was always the other man or me. In a fair fight!

  Louisa Cody : Well, what right have you to judge who is to live or who is to die? Put away your guns Mr. Hickok.

• Calamity Jane : Forget it, will ya. You ain't got a chance against Lattimore's men.

  Wild Bill Hickok : Hmm. I've got nothing to lose.

  Calamity Jane : Nothin' but your life! Bill Hickok, when you talk like that I could bounce a rock off on your bean.

• Wild Bill Hickok : Why don't you try it, next time you see me.

  Calamity Jane : When will that be? Where?

  Wild Bill Hickok : Oh, up around Deadwood, someplace. You can never tell.

  Calamity Jane : I got to get outta here too, after what I done. Well, I guess this is goodbye, eh, Bill?

  Wild Bill Hickok : Where are you going?

  Calamity Jane : Oh, up around Deadwood, someplace, I guess. I don't give a hoot where I go.

• Wild Bill Hickok : You're well named. A child of calamity. Always gettin' yourself into trouble.

• Calamity Jane : Bill, I reckon maybe you don't hate me. Do ya? Maybe you're just bein' nice to me because you think you won't ever see me again?

  Wild Bill Hickok : Sure. Sure, I'll see you again. This is a big country and trails cross - sometimes.

• Wild Bill Hickok : I've been thinkin', the west is gettin' to be a new kind of place. Bill Cody's done the right thing. He's changed. What room is there gonna be for a two-gun Plainsman, huh?

• Wild Bill Hickok : Black aces and eights.

  Jake - A Teamster : Your luck's changed. Three queens. I'm afraid you lose, Hickok.

  Wild Bill Hickok : A man's bound to lose - sooner or later.

• Wild Bill Hickok : How do you like your bacon, Bill?

  Buffalo Bill Cody : I like my bacon fine.