The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
Burt Lancaster: Col. Thaddeus Gearhart
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Quotes
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Col. Thaddeus Gearhart : I don't care how dirty you are, I will not have you ladies bathing in nude!
Cora Templeton Massingale : There's no other way I know of, colonel.
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Col. Thaddeus Gearhart : Give a woman an acorn and the next thing you know you're up to your rump in oak trees.
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Col. Thaddeus Gearhart : If it's the last thing I do, I'll have that entire band transferred to Alaska!
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Col. Thaddeus Gearhart : [sitting in a bathtub when Mrs. Massingale enters his tent] Madam, I'm bathing!
Cora Templeton Massingale : The sight of a man bathing is not foreign to a woman widowed three times.
Col. Thaddeus Gearhart : You will pardon me if I don't rise.
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Sgt. Buell : [the troops are mounted and are ready to depart for Denver, Gearhart and Buell are heading for their horses] Sir?
Col. Thaddeus Gearhart : Well?
Sgt. Buell : Does the Colonel intend... I mean to say sir, will the escort party... sir, do you really intend to go through with this thing?
Col. Thaddeus Gearhart : Buell you've got a great deal to learn about military science.
Sgt. Buell : Sir?
Col. Thaddeus Gearhart : Simple matter here of objective and stratagem. Objective? Get rid of these damn women! Stratagem?
Sgt. Buell : Take 'em to Denver, sir?
Col. Thaddeus Gearhart : Mount up, you! Mount up!