Union Pacific (1939)
Joel McCrea: Jeff Butler
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Quotes
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Jeff Butler : [informing Mollie that her husband Dick Allen is dead] He'll be waiting for us... at the end of track.
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Sid Campeau : What's a dead Indian, more or less? The Army's been killing them for years.
Jeff Butler : The Army doesn't kill Indians for fun, Campeau. And I don't think you do, either.
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Mollie Monahan : Did you never know that flirting gets into a woman's blood like fighting gets into a man's? Now, a girl begins coquetting to discover if she has the power. Then she goes looking, like a fighter after a bully, for the hardest man to conquer. But 'tis never the man she wants, 'tis the pleasure of bringing him to her feet.
Jeff Butler : Till the right man comes along and gives her the spanking she deserves.
Mollie Monahan : Ah, that's the man she dreams of.
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Jeff Butler : I don't believe I'll need bodyguards.
General Casement : You'll need 'em, alright.
Fiesta : You think we no good, eh?
Jeff Butler : No, it's not that...
Leach Overmile : We've had a lot of experience, Captain. We bodyguarded the last two troubleshooters right up to the very minute they was killed.
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Dick Allen : You're all aces, bucko. But you're in love with Mollie and don't you ever forget she's my wife.
Jeff Butler : I might. She wouldn't.
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Jeff Butler : It's you I'll always want. Some of your sweetness got into my blood. I guess it's there for life.
Mollie Monahan : And my heart will be answering you... as long as ever it beats.
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Sid Campeau : Look here, Butler. You and your railroad cutthroat can't bully me.
Jeff Butler : He called you a cutthroat, Fiesta.
Fiesta : Heh, heh. He knows me pretty well.
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Dick Allen : [on the train, greeting his old friend Jeff Butler who has come to meet Sid Campeau] You old sharpshooter! What are you doing here?
Jeff Butler : I'm working for the railroad.
Dick Allen : Doing what?
Jeff Butler : I'm assistant superintendent of the...
Dick Allen : [interrupts] Just a fancy name for troubleshooter?
Jeff Butler : Maybe...
