Drum Beat (1954)

Bill Satterwhite: Peace is going to be awfully hard to get.
Johnny MacKay: That's your business... not mine!
Bill Satterwhite: Bill, I need your help. Don't go running off half wild killin' Modocs. Only one got Lily.
Johnny MacKay: You think she was worth only one of them devils? You dish our your peace, Johnny. I'll dish out my end!

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Johnny MacKay: You think they're bluffin'?
Manok: We find out if they start shootin'.

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Johnny MacKay: More killing means more war, Jack.
Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack: Then there will be war.
Johnny MacKay: War is no good. In war one side wins; in peace, both sides win.

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General Edward Canby, whose death is depicted in this movie, was in reality the only U.S. army general killed during the American Indian Wars. "General" G. A. Custer, killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876, was not in fact a general at the time of his death. After the Civil War, he held the permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
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