Richard Harris
(as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen)
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
You're getting leave, Major. And it's time you did. And in fact you'd ought to give up soldiering altogether. You were trapped at the river, ambushed like a shavetail! You caused that boy's death, you split your command. And just what are you doing outside your picket line? Are you trying to seek refuge in the arms of a woman - a woman, I might add, of rather doubtful virtue? Just what in the bloody hell are you doing here in the first place, Amos?
Charlton Heston
(as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee)
Capt. Frank Waller:
[referring to Dundee's planned expedition] I feel it's my responsibility to report to General Carleton what I believe to be an irresponsible and reckless action.
Maj. Amos Dundee: Do your worst.
Capt. Frank Waller: You could be shot for this, Amos.
Maj. Amos Dundee: My executioners will have to stand *in line*.
Maj. Amos Dundee: Do your worst.
Capt. Frank Waller: You could be shot for this, Amos.
Maj. Amos Dundee: My executioners will have to stand *in line*.
Charlton Heston
(as Maj. Amos Charles Dundee)
Capt. Frank Waller:
Are you pursuing the Apache, Major, or a promotion?
Maj. Amos Dundee: Whatever my reasons are, Frank, you'd better get down on your knees and pray to God I don't decide to take you with me.
Maj. Amos Dundee: Whatever my reasons are, Frank, you'd better get down on your knees and pray to God I don't decide to take you with me.
Michael Pate
(as Sierra Charriba)
Richard Harris
(as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen)
Jimmy Lee Benteen:
[the command encounters a patrol of Confederate cavalry at a river crossing] Which way, Captain?
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: To Mexico, you bloody idiot!
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: To Mexico, you bloody idiot!
R.G. Armstrong
(as Rev. Dahlstrom)
Rev. Dahlstrom:
[after disarming a French soldier during a raid on their camp] Mighty is the arm of the Lord!
James Coburn
(as Samuel Potts)
James Coburn
(as Samuel Potts)
Samuel Potts:
I am Samuel Potts, I bring complements of Major Amos Dundee, regular, United States cavalry. You have five minutes to surrender your troops and your stores before he cuts loose.
Capt. Jacques Tremaine: [putting on his dress coat as he speaks] He would not dare. This is a horrendous violation of international law, and an unprovoked confrontation with a friendly power...
Samuel Potts: Sonny, the Major ain't no lawyer. And you've now got *four* minutes.
Capt. Jacques Tremaine: [putting on his dress coat as he speaks] He would not dare. This is a horrendous violation of international law, and an unprovoked confrontation with a friendly power...
Samuel Potts: Sonny, the Major ain't no lawyer. And you've now got *four* minutes.
Warren Oates
(as O.W. Hadley)
O.W. Hadley:
[as he is about to be executed as a deserter] Aw, hell, Major, you're just doin' what you gots to do! But goddamn your soul for it anyway, and God bless Robert E. Lee!
[Tyreen shoots him in the back of the head]
[Tyreen shoots him in the back of the head]
Richard Harris
(as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen)
O.W. Hadley:
[Hadley is to be executed for desertion] You gonna let them shoot me, sir?
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: I'm obliged to, son. You should've remembered you belong to the Major, and not to me.
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: I'm obliged to, son. You should've remembered you belong to the Major, and not to me.
