Union Pacific (1939)

Akim Tamiroff: Fiesta

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• Fiesta : I look around and pretty soon I marry my wife in Santa Fe. Ah, the best woodchopper in the country. You bet you my life, the best. But one day she gets bite by a rattlesnake.

  Mollie Monahan : She did? Did the doctor get there in time?

  Fiesta : No, she's already dead.

  Mollie Monahan : Your wife?

  Fiesta : My wife? No, no, the snake.

• 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.

• 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.

• Fiesta : [goes over to woman snoring next to an open window, pushes her head rudely to wake her, closes window and shutter, annoyed]  Hey, hey... *down*.

  Snoring Woman on Train : [raises shutter and window, answers angrily]  *I* want it up!

  Fiesta : [slams window and shutter, yells]  Oh no, *down*!

  Snoring Woman on Train : [Heaves up shutter and window, angry]  I said up!

  Fiesta : [frustrated]  Now listen, lady...

  Snoring Woman on Train : I want some fresh air!

  Mollie Monahan : [arms akimbo, amused]  Sure an' you'll get it, right through your skull! The Indians relish shootin' at the lighted windows!

  Fiesta : [woman looks terrified, closes window and shutter quickly]  Heh heh, that woman, she just like my wife I had in Omaha, the same. You know, my wife she so mean, she barks at the dogs! But me, well... you know what I do?

  Mollie Monahan : [casually]  You married her.

  Fiesta : Oh, you bet yourself... she can cook frijoles... mmm... the * best* in the whole world!