Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)

James Cagney: Jeremy Rodock

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• Jeremy Rodock : One thing you gotta learn tho - horse is man's slave but treat 'em like a slave and you ain't a man.

• Jeremy Rodock : You know, I ain't got you figured yet, McNulty. You act like a man with a lot of ideas. But all of them second rate... and not one honorable.

  McNulty : Kee - rect.

• Jeremy Rodock : [Explaining to Jocasta why he must go search out and hang the horse thieves, in spite of Jo's wishes to the contrary]  Jo... you come as close to bein'... well, as close to bein' everything to me as anything livin'. But I still can't do what you want me to do. We're livin' in the middle of nowhere. Two hundred miles from any kind of law and order. Except for what I built myself. Ever since I started - and this you don't know - I've been badgered, skunked, bitten out and bushwhacked by thieves from everywhere. And now, one of my men's been killed. I find my horses, I find the killer. If I find the killer, I hang him. I gotta' keep my own reckoning, Jo. It's the way I built my life and half the transportation of the West. Goodbye, Jo.

• Jeremy Rodock : [Explaining to Jocasta why he felt the hanging was necessary]  I tell ya' Jo, it's the only way. It's FEAR that keeps men honest. And with that hangin' today, I laid fear like a fence ten feet high, around my property!

• Jeremy Rodock : [Jeremy to Jocasta as Steve rides away on Jeremy's horse]  A fella doesn't die of a broken heart from his first love, only from his last.

• Jeremy Rodock : I'm sorry you're so hard, boy.

  Lars Peterson : I learned through you.

  Jeremy Rodock : Then I'm sorry for both of us.

• Jeremy Rodock : [to Steve]  I got reason to like you, boy. Don't spoil it!

• Jeremy Rodock : [to Steve]  I ain't ready to die yet. I got too many good times left in me.