Dana Andrews
(as Jim Read)
Art Downey:
They say you're pretty good with a gun, Read. Now, just how good?
Jim Read: I manage to stay alive.
Art Downey: I asked you a question, Read! How good?
Jim Read: That's your gamble.
Jim Read: I manage to stay alive.
Art Downey: I asked you a question, Read! How good?
Jim Read: That's your gamble.
Dana Andrews
(as Jim Read)
Gen. Nelson Miles:
You got here fast.
Jim Read: You said it was urgent, General, so we cut across the Stake Plains
Gen. Nelson Miles: With Comanches loose?
Jim Read: We traveled at night, mostly. Comanches hole up at night. It's bad medicine for them.
Jim Read: You said it was urgent, General, so we cut across the Stake Plains
Gen. Nelson Miles: With Comanches loose?
Jim Read: We traveled at night, mostly. Comanches hole up at night. It's bad medicine for them.
Mike Mazurki
(as Flat Mouth)
Dana Andrews
(as Jim Read)
Jim Read:
Let's head for Medicine Mound. You can see it for miles. The Comanche don't go there except to die.
Kent Smith
(as Quanah Parker)
Jim Read:
Oh, that Mexican girl. No harm will come to her?
Quanah Parker: Tawalka and Morning Star will care for her. She's a captive. She belongs to the tribe.
Quanah Parker: Tawalka and Morning Star will care for her. She's a captive. She belongs to the tribe.
Lowell Gilmore
(as Commissioner Ward)
Jim Read:
So that's the way it is. Comanches kill Mexicans to get even with the Spanish. And the Mexicans kill Comanche in revenge for that. It's become a way of life.
Commissioner John Ward: I can see how it began, but the Comanche must throw away their war paint or we will have to make them.
Commissioner John Ward: I can see how it began, but the Comanche must throw away their war paint or we will have to make them.
Kent Smith
(as Quanah Parker)
Jim Read:
This is a good place.
Quanah Parker: Yes. We will live here like our fathers before us and their fathers before them. We were born here... where the wind blows free and there is nothing to break the light of the sun. There are no enclosures and everybody draws a free breath.
Quanah Parker: Yes. We will live here like our fathers before us and their fathers before them. We were born here... where the wind blows free and there is nothing to break the light of the sun. There are no enclosures and everybody draws a free breath.
Henry Brandon
(as Black Cloud)
Kent Smith
(as Quanah Parker)
Quanah Parker:
If my brother dies, the white man's death will not be as swift as his. We will see your tongue torn out by the root.
Kent Smith
(as Quanah Parker)
Quanah Parker:
There are two white faces. Later, we will find out how long their spirits can stay in their bodies under endless torment.
