The Searchers (1956)
Jeffrey Hunter: Martin Pawley
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Quotes
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Ethan : Our turnin' back don't mean nothin', not in the long run. She's alive, she's safe... for a while. They'll keep her to raise her as one of their own till, until she's of an age to...
Martin : Don't you think there's a chance we still might find her?
Ethan : Injun will chase a thing till he thinks he's chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that'll just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end, I promise you. We'll find 'em. Just as sure as the turnin' of the earth.
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Laurie Jorgensen : [Martin is preparing to join a raid against the Indians and rescue Debbie] You're not goin', not this time.
Martin : Are you crazy?
Laurie Jorgensen : It's too late. She's a woman grown now.
Martin : But I gotta go, Laurie, I gotta fetch her home.
Laurie Jorgensen : Fetch what home? The leavings of a Comanche buck, sold time and again to the highest bidder, with savage brats of her own?
Martin : Laurie, shut your mouth.
Laurie Jorgensen : Do you know what Ethan will do if he has a chance? He'll put a bullet in her brain.
[pause]
Laurie Jorgensen : I tell you, Martha would want him to.
Martin : Only if I'm dead.
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Martin : You know, Laurie, I was just thinking that maybe it's about time you and me started going steady, huh?
Laurie Jorgensen : Why, Martin Pawley, you and me been going steady since we was three years old!
Martin : We have?
Laurie Jorgensen : 'Bout time you found out about it.
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Martin : [speaking to Debbie for the first time in five years] Debbie, Debbie, Debbie, don't you remember? I'm Martin, I'm Martin, your brother, remember? Debbie, remember back.
Martin : [pause] Do you remember how I used to let you ride my horse? And tell you stories? Oh, don't you remember me, Debbie?
Debbie Edwards : I remember, from always. At first I prayed to you: "Come and get me, take me home." You didn't come.
Martin : But I've come now, Debbie.
Debbie Edwards : These are my people. Go. Go, Martin, please!
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Laurie Jorgensen : Ethan rode on an hour ago. Now Martin I don't know what you can do about finding Debbie that he can't. He'll find her now, Martin. Honest he will.
Martin : That's what I'm afraid Of Laurie, him finding her. Oh I've seen his eyes at the very word "Comanche". I've seen him take his knife and - - Never mind. He's a man that can go crazy wild and I intend to be there to stop him in case he does.
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Martin : Well, why don't you say it? We're beat, and you know it.
Ethan : Nope. Our turnin' back don't mean nothin'. Not in the long run. If she's alive, she's safe. For a while, they'll keep her to raise as one of their own until... she's of an age to...
Martin : Do you think maybe there's a chance we still might find her?
Ethan : An Indian will chase a thing till he thinks he's chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter who'll just keep coming on. So we'll find 'em in the end I promise you. We'll find 'em. Just as sure as the... turnin' of the earth.
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Ethan Edwards : You remember that scalp string on Scar's lance? Long and wavy?
Martin Pawley : Yeah, I saw it, and don't try to tell me it was Aunt Martha's or Lucy's.
Ethan Edwards : It was your mother's.
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Martin Pawley : If we go chargin' in there, they'll kill her and you know it.
Ethan Edwards : That's what I'm countin' on.
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Martin Pawley : What do you mean you don't have any blood kin? Debbie's your blood kin.
Ethan Edwards : Not any more she ain't.
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Brad : There's only one way you can stop me from looking for Lucy, mister, and that's kill me!
Martin : That's the way I feel, Uncle Ethan
[Edwards glares at him]
Martin : Ethan... Sir.
Ethan : Alright, but I'm giving the orders here. I'm giving the orders and you'll follow 'em, or we're splitting up right here and now!
Martin : Well, sure, Ethan. Just one reason were here, ain't it, is to find Debbie and Lucy?
Ethan : If they're still alive.
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Ethan Edwards : What's she followin' us for?
Martin Pawley : Oh, you go on back now. Go on. Look, I changed my mind. You can keep your blanket. Look, you don't understand. I don't want it.
Ethan Edwards : You don't understand, you chunkhead. You didn't buy any blanket, you bought her. You got yourself a wife, sonny.
[laughs]