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"There was a land of cavaliers and cotton fields called the old south. Here in this pretty world gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of knights and their ladies fair. Of master and of slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A civilization gone with the wind."
"What a woman."
"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."
"I'm very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening is over."
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
"[with the tombstones] As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not goin' to lick me. I'm goin' to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"
"I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh, I can't think about this now! I'll go crazy if I do! I'll think about it tomorrow. But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do? What is there that matters? Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all...tomorrow...is another day!"
"The greatest romance of all time!"
"The most magnificent picture ever!"
"Clark Gable - Rhett Butler"
"Vivien Leigh - Scarlett O'Hara"
"Leslie Howard - Ashley Wilkes"
"Olivia de Havilland - Melanie Hamilton"
"Thomas Mitchell - Gerald O'Hara"
"Barbara O'Neil - Ellen O'Hara"
"Evelyn Keyes - Suellen O'Hara"
"Ann Rutherford - Carreen O'Hara"
"George Reeves - Stuart Tarleton"
"Fred Crane - Brent Tarleton"
"Hattie McDaniel - Mammy"
"Oscar Polk - Pork"
"Butterfly McQueen - Prissy"
"Victor Jory - Jonas Wilkerson"
"Alicia Rhett - India Wilkes"
"The myth of the Hispanic menial has been sustained by the same media phenomenon that made "Mammy" from Gone with the Wind America's idea of the black woman for generations: Maria, the housemaid or counter girl, is now indelibly etched into the national psyche. The big and the little screens have presented us with the picture of the funny Hispanic maid, mispronouncing words and cooking up a spicy storm in a shiny California kitchen."
"Can we get like Gone with the Wind back please? Sunset Boulevard, so many great movies."
"Robert Gould Shaw, the son of wealthy Boston abolitionists, was 23 years old when he enlisted to fight in the War between the States.He wrote home regularly, telling his parents of life in the gathering Army of the Potomac.These letters are collected in the Houghton Library of Harvard University."
"The 54th Massachusetts Brigade lost over half its number in the assault on Ft. Wagner. The supporting white brigades also suffered heavily before withdrawing.The fort was never taken.As word of their bravery spread, Congress at last authorized the raising of black troops throughout the Union. Over 180,000 volunteered.President Lincoln credited these men of color with helping turn the tide of the war."
"[first lines, in a letter] Dear Mother, I hope you are keeping well and not worrying too much about me. You mustn't think that any of us are going to be killed, for they are collecting such a force here that an attack would be insane. The Massachusetts men passed through here this morning. How grand it is to meet the men from all the states, east and west, ready to fight fro their country, as the old fellows did in the Revolution. But this time, we must make it a whole country, for all who live here, so that all can speak. Before this war began, many of my regiment had never seen a negro, and now the roads are choked with the dispossessed. We fight for men and women whose poetry is not yet written, but which will presently be as enviable and as renowned as any. Last night, we heard of yet another defeat, but we are not disheartened. I am honored to be part of such a splendid company. They have made me captain, of which I am enormously proud. You would think it strange to see me giving orders to a hundred men, most of whom are older than I am. Thank you for sending my volume of Emerson. His words come home to me like truth. "A deep man," he says, "believes that the evil eye can wither, that the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds." My dearest love to Father. Your son, Robert."
"Good morning gentlemen, I am Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. I am your commanding officer. It is a great pleasure to see you all here today. It is my hope that the same courage, spirit, and honor, which has brought us together, will one day restore this Union. May God bless us all!"
"Dear Mother, the men learn very quickly; faster than white troops, it seems to me. They are almost grave and sedate under instruction and they restrain themselves. But the moment they are dismissed from drill, every tongue is relaxed and every ivory tooth is visible and you would not know from the sound of it that this is an army camp. They must have learned this from long hours of meaningless, inhuman work to set their minds free so quickly. It gives them great energy. And there is no doubt we will leave this state as fine a regiment as any that as marched. As ever, your son, Robert."
"It is my job to get these men ready. And I will. They have risked their lives to be here, they have given up their freedom. I owe them as much as they have given. I owe them my freedom...my life if necessary."
"If you men will take no pay, then none of us will! [holds up his own paycheck and tears it in half]"
"Dear Father, I need your help. Despite my many requests, it has become clear that we are to be used only for manual labor. Morale is low. The men's humor darkened by idleness and despair. Why keep drilling if they are never to be given the opportunity to prove themselves? I have written to Governor Andrew as well as to the general staff in Washington. But I feel that only a letter directly from you to Lincoln himself can have the desired effect. I can think of no other course. I am sure you both pray, as I do, that all this has not been in vain."
"There's more to fighting than rest, sir. There's character. There's strength of heart. You should have seen us in action two days ago. We were a sight to see! We'll be ready, sir. When do you want us?"
"[Last words] Come on, Fifty-Fourth!"
"For God's sake, men, you march like a bunch of crippled old goats! Jesus Christ, we're gonna be here day and night till we get this right! One, one! Company, halt! About-face! You are ugly Mexican, African fucking whores! We're gonna work on this day and night till we get this right, gentlemen. Forward at the half step. March!"
"[to Thomas Searles] Oh, look at this. Bonnie Prince Charlie. Are you a gentleman? Are you a member of Congress or something? Or are you the bloody prince of Africa?! [Searles glances at him] Well, don't look at me! [grabs his jaw, points his face forward] Look straight ahead! Look straight ahead! I'll eat your ass up, boy-o!"
"Mr. Rawlins, this regiment was formed with the promise that only white officers would be commissioned to lead it. Nothing was mentioned, however, about noncommissioned officers. Therefore, in recognition of initiative taken not only for yourself, but on behalf of the entire regiment, you are hereby awarded the rank of Sergeant Major. Congratulations."
"Let me tell you something boy. You can march like the white man. You can talk like him. You can learn his songs. You can even wear his suits. But you ain't never gonna be nothing to him but an ugly ass chimp in a blue suit."
"[addressing the 54th the night before battle] I ain't much about no prayin,' now. I ain't never had no family, and...killed off my mama. Well, I just...Y'all's the onliest family I got. I love the 54th. Ain't even much a matter what happens tomorrow, 'cause we men, ain't we? We men."
"Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins: [to a group of children] That's right, honeys. Ain't no dream. We runaway slaves, but we come back fightin' men. Go tell your folks how kingdom come in the year of jubilee!"
"Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins: If tomorrow is our great getting up moment...If tomorrow we have to meet the judgment day...Heavenly Father, we want you to let our folks know...that we died facing the enemy. We want'em to know, that we went down standing up! Amongst those that are fighting against our oppression. We want'em to know, Heavenly Father, that we died fighting for freedom!"
"Pvt. Jupiter Sharts: [praying aloud] Tomorrow we goes into battle. So Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand and the Good Book in the other. So that if I may die at the muzzle of the rifle...die on water, or on land, I may know that you blessed Jesus almighty are with me...and I will have no fear."
"Union Corporal: "Give'em hell 54th!""
"Matthew Broderick - Col. Robert Gould Shaw"
"Denzel Washington - Pvt. Trip"
"Cary Elwes - Maj. Cabot Forbes"
"Morgan Freeman - Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins"
"Jihmi Kennedy - Pvt. Jupiter Sharts"
"Andre Braugher - Cpl. Thomas Searles"
"John Finn - Sgt. Maj. Mulcahy"
"Donovan Leitch - Capt. Charles Morse"
"JD Cullum - Henry Sturgis Russell"
"Alan North - Gov. John Andrew"
"Bob Gunton - Gen. Harker"
"Cliff De Young - Col. James M. Montgomery"
"Richard Riehle - Kendric, quartermaster"
"Raymond St. Jacques - Frederick Douglass"
"Just because we're robbing a bank doesn't mean there's no reason not to be polite."
"[to Zee] You got big. I mean, you aged. What I mean is in a good way you got big and older."
"If I can get you today, then you damn sure know I can kill you anytime I want now that I'm free. You sleep on that for the next twenty years."
"You tell anyone I said this, I'll have to kill you, cause everyone knows I'm the toughest man in this town. But you are one terrifying son of a bitch with them guns."
"My professional opinion is that you've managed to piss off the wrong bunch of farm boys this time."
"Bad Is Good Again."
"This Much Fun Can't Be Legal!"
"Sometimes the wrong side of the law is the right place to be."
"Colin Farrell - Jesse James"
"Scott Caan - Cole Younger"
"Ali Larter - Zee Mimms"
"Gabriel Macht - Frank James"
"Gregory Smith - Jim Younger"
"Harris Yulin - Thaddeus Rains"
"Will McCormack - Bob Younger"
"Kathy Bates - Ma James"
"Timothy Dalton - Allan Pinkerton"
"Ronny Cox - Doc Mimms"
"Terry O'Quinn - Rollin Parker"
"Nathaniel Arcand - Comanche Tom"
"Ty O'Neal - Clell Miller"
"Joe Stevens - Loni Packwood"
"Muse Watson - Burly Detective"
"The strangeness of this life cannot be measured: in trying to produce my own death, I was elevated to the status of a living hero."
"[voiceover] It seems every day ends with a miracle here. And whatever God may be, I thank God for this day."
"[voiceover] Many times I'd felt alone, but until this afternoon I'd never felt completely lonely."
"Nothing I have been told about these people is correct. They are not thieves or beggars. They are not the bogeymen they are made out to be. On the contrary, they are polite guests and I enjoy their humor."
"I had never really known who John Dunbar was. Perhaps because the name itself had no meaning. But as I heard my Sioux name being called over and over, I knew for the first time who I really was."
"It was hard to know how to feel. I had never been in a battle like this one. This had not been a fight for territory or riches or to make men free. This battle had no ego. It had been fought to preserve the food stores that would see us through winter, to protect the lives of women and children and loved ones only a few feet away. I felt a pride I had never felt before."
"[to his army captors who are interrogating him, in Lakota] My name is Dances with Wolves. I will not talk to you anymore. You are not worth talking to."
"We will shoot some arrows into the white man. If he truly has medicine, he will not be hurt. If he has no medicine, he will be dead."
"Dances With Wolves. I am Wind In His Hair. Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend?"
"[in Lakota, showing Dunbar an old Spanish Conquistador's helmet] The white men who wore this came around the time of my grandfather's grandfather. Eventually we drove them out. Then the Mexicans came. But they do not come here any more. In my own time, the Texans. They have been like all the others. They take without asking. I don't know if we are ready for these people. But I think you are right. I think they will keep coming. When I think of that, I look at this helmet. Our country is all that we have, and we will fight to keep it."
"You are the only white man I have ever known. I have thought about you a lot. More than you think. And I understand your concern. But I think you are wrong. The white man the soldiers are looking for no longer exists. Now there is only a Sioux named Dances With Wolves... Let us smoke a while."
"Somebuddy poked me in my butt...was dat you?"
"Please don't hurt my mules!"
"He He, Put that in your book!"
"I'll bet someone back east is going, 'Now why don't he write?"
"Inside everyone is a frontier waiting to be discovered."
"The journey begins this November. Discover it for yourself."
"Lt. John Dunbar is about to discover the frontier...within himself."
"Five hundred years later, Native peoples are still fighting to protect their lands and their rights to exist as distinct political communities and individuals. Most US citizens' knowledge about Indians is inaccurate, distorted, or limited to elementary-school textbooks, cheesy old spaghetti westerns, or more contemporary films like Dances with Wolves or The Last of the Mohicans."
"Kevin Costner - Lt. John J. Dunbar/Dances With Wolves"
"Mary McDonnell - Stands With A Fist"
"Graham Greene - Kicking Bird"
"Rodney A. Grant - Wind In His Hair"
"Floyd Red Crow Westerman - Chief Ten Bears"
"Tantoo Cardinal - Black Shawl"
"Jimmy Herman - Stone Calf"
"Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse - Smiles A Lot"
"Michael Spears - Otter"
"Charles Rocket - Lt. Elgin"
"Robert Pastorelli - Timmons"
"Percy White Plume - Big Warrior"
"The part assigned to me is to raise the flag, which, if there be no fault in the machinery, I will do, and when up, it'll be for the people to keep it up. That's my speech."
"I heard tell once of a Jeff City lawyer who had a parrot that'd wake him each morning crying out, "Today is the day the world shall end, as scripture has foretold." And one day the lawyer shot him for the sake of peace and quiet, I presume. Thus fulfilling, for the bird at least, his prophecy!"
"[to Cabinet members] As the preacher said; "I could write shorter sermons, but once I start I get too lazy to stop.""
"It was right after the Revolution, right after peace had been concluded. And Ethan Allen went to London to help our new country conduct its business with the king. The English sneered at how rough we are and rude and simple-minded and on like that, everywhere he went. Til one day he was invited to the townhouse of a great English lord. Dinner was served, beverages imbibed, time passed as happens and Mr. Allen found he needed the privy. He was grateful to be directed thence. Relieved, you might say. Mr. Allen discovered on entering the water closet that the only decoration therein was a portrait of George Washington. Ethan Allen done what he came to do and returned to the drawing room. His host and the others were disappointed when he didn't mention Washington's portrait. And finally his lordship couldn't resist and asked Mr. Allen had he noticed it - the picture of Washington - he had. Well what did he think of its placement? Did it seem appropriately located to Mr. Allen? And Mr. Allen said it did. The host was astounded. [mocking British accent] "Appropriate? George Washington's likeness in a water closet?" "Yes," said Mr. Allen, "where it will do good service. The whole world knows nothing will make an Englishman shit quicker than the sight of George Washington." I love that story."
"Euclid's first common notion is this: "Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other." That's a rule of mathematical reasoning. It's true because it works; has done and will always will do. In his book, Euclid says this is "self-evident." You see, there it is, even in that two-thousand year old book of mechanical law: it is a self-evident truth of things which are equal to the same thing, are equal to each other. We begin with equality. That's the origin, isn't it? That balance—that's fairness, that's justice."
"[pounds his hand on a table as his cabinet squabbles] I can't listen to this anymore. I can't accomplish a goddamn thing of any human meaning or worth until we cure ourselves of slavery and end this pestilential war, and whether any of you or anyone else knows it, I know I need this! This amendment is that cure! We're stepped out upon the world stage now, now, with the fate of human dignity in our hands. Blood's been spilled to afford us this moment! Now! Now! Now! And you grouse so and heckle and dodge about like pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters!"
"Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?"
"In times like this, I'm best alone."
"[last lines, from Second Inaugural speech] Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
"Trust? Oh. I'm sorry, I was under the misapprehension your chosen profession was politics. I never trusted the President, never trusted anyone, but hasn't he surprised you?"
"Nothing surprises you, Asa, therefore nothing about you is surprising. Perhaps that is why your constituents did not re-elect you to the coming term?"
"Lincoln the inveterate dawdler, Lincoln the Southerner, Lincoln the capitulating compromiser, our adversary, and leader of the Godforsaken Republican Party - our party - Abraham Lincoln has asked for our help in accomplishing the death of slavery in America. Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment."
"How can I hold that all men are created equal, when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio, proof that some men are inferior, endowed by their Maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead of hot red blood! You are more reptile than man, George! So low and flat, that the foot of man is incapable of crushing you!"
"I want the amendment to pass, so that the Constitution's first and only mention of slavery is its absolute prohibition. For this amendment, for which I have worked all my life and for which countless colored men and women have fought and died and now hundreds of thousands of soldiers... No, sir, no, it seems there's very nearly nothing I won't say."
"The greatest measure of the 19th century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America."
"[to Abraham Lincoln] No one's loved as much as you, no one's ever been loved so much, by the people. You might do anything now. Don't, don't waste that power on an amendment bill that's sure of defeat."
"[to Abraham Lincoln] You think I'm ignorant of what you're up to because you haven't discussed this scheme with me as you ought to have done? When have I ever been so easily bamboozled? I believe you when you insist that amending the Constitution and abolishing slavery will end this war. And since you're sending my son into the war, woe to you if you fail to pass the amendment."
"But all that was not enough for this dictator, who now seeks to insinuate his miscegenist pollution into the Constitution itself!"
"We are once again asked - nay, commanded - to consider a proposed thirteenth amendment which, if passed, shall set at immediate liberty four million coloreds while manacling the limbs of the white race in America. If it is passed - but it shall not pass!"
"Every member of the House loyal to the Democratic Party and the constituents it serves shall oppose!"
"Daniel Day-Lewis - President Abraham Lincoln"
"Sally Field - First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln"
"David Strathairn - Secretary of State William H. Seward"
"Tommy Lee Jones - Radical Republican Congressional leader Thaddeus Stevens"
"Hal Holbrook - Francis Preston Blair"
"Lee Pace - Democratic Congressman Fernando Wood"
"Peter McRobbie - Democratic Congressman George H. Pendleton"
"Bruce McGill - Secretary of War Edwin Stanton"
"Dakin Matthews- Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher"
"Jared Harris - Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant"
"James Spader - Republican Party operative William N. Bilbo"
"Tim Blake Nelson - lobbyist Richard Schell"
"John Hawkes - Republican operative Colonel Robert Latham"
"Bill Raymond - Schuyler Colfax"
"David Costabile - Republican Congressman James Ashley"
"Stephen Spinella - Radical Republican Congressman Asa Vintner Litton"
"Michael Stuhlbarg - Kentucky Democratic Congressman George Yeaman"
"Boris McGiver - Democratic Congressman, later Republican, Alexander Coffroth"
"Walton Goggins - Democratic Congressman Wells A. Hutchins"
"David Warshofsky - Democratic Congressmann William Hutton"
"Wayne Duvall - Radical Republican Senator Benjamin "Bluff Ben" Wade"
"Jackie Earle Haley - Confederate States Vice President Alexander H. Stephens"
"Gregory Itzin - John Archibald Campbell"
"S. Epatha Merkerson - Lydia Smith"
"Gloria Reuben - Elizabeth Keckley"
"Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Robert Todd Lincoln"
"Gulliver McGrath - Tad Lincoln"
"Joseph Cross - John Hay"
"Stephen Henderson - Lincoln's valet William Slade"
"My corn I take serious because it's my corn, and my potatoes and my tomatoes and fences I take note of because they're mine. But this war is not mine and I take no note of it!"
"Lord, We cleared this land; We plowed it, sowed it, and harvested it. We cooked the harvest. It wouldn't be here—we wouldn't be eating it—if we hadn't done it all ourselves. We worked dog-bone hard for every crumb and morsel But we thank you just the same anyway, Lord, for this food we're about to eat. Amen."
"What d'you do with dead soldiers?"
"[after Boy Anderson is abducted by Union soldiers] Now it concerns us."
"You run a sad kind of train, mister. It takes people away when they don't want to go, and won't bring them back when they're ready."
"I'm not going to kill you. I want you to live. I want you to live to be an old man, and I want you to have many, many, many children, and I want you to feel about your children then the way I feel about mine now. And someday, when a man comes along and kills one of em, I want you to remember! Okay? I want you to remember."
"There's nothing much I can tell you about this war. It's like all wars, I suppose. The undertakers are winning it. Oh, the politicians will talk a lot about the "glory" of it, and the old men'll talk about the "need" of it—the soldiers, they just want to go home."
"SHAKES THE SCREEN LIKE CANNON THUNDER!"
"Two Mighty Armies Trampled Its Valley…A Fighting Family Challenged Them Both!"
"James Stewart as Charlie Anderson"
"Doug McClure as Sam"
"Glenn Corbett as Jacob Anderson"
"Patrick Wayne as James Anderson"
"Rosemary Forsyth as Jennie Anderson"
"Phillip Alford as Boy Anderson"
"Katharine Ross as Ann Anderson"
"Charles Robinson as Nathan Anderson"
"Jim McMullan as John Anderson"
"Tim McIntire as Henry Anderson"
"Eugene Jackson Jnr. as Gabriel"
"Paul Fix as Dr. Tom Witherspoon"
"Denver Pyle as Pastor Bjoerling"
"George Kennedy as Col. Fairchild"
"James Best as Carter, Rebel Soldier"
"Tom Simcox as Lt. Johnson"
"Berkeley Harris as Capt. Richards"
"Harry Carey, Jr. as Jenkins (rebel soldier)"
"Kevin Hagen as Mule (deserter)"
"Dabbs Greer as Abernathy"
"Strother Martin as Train Engineer"
"Kelly Thordsen as Federal Purchasing Agent Carroll"
"Set in a Virginia farm during the Civil War, this popular family film offers all-American star Jimmy Stewart a classic role, a widower with six sons who initially refuses to takes sides or get involved in the conflict—only to learn otherwise."
"Stewart uses his vast experience and established screen image as the all-American hero to an advantage in a role, which was made to order as he reached the later phases of his glorious career. Beginning with his protag's name, Charlie is a classic American hero, played by Cooper, Stewart, and even Bogart, a man initially cherishing isolation and lack of involvement only to be forced into a divisive conflict through circumstances, both personal and political."
"A successful film not just because of the marriage of the right actor in the appropriate genre, but also the timely infusion of challenging questions about a nation at war."
"When this movie was released in 1965, the U. S. war in Vietnam had just begun, and antiwar sentiments had not yet began to swell in America. Libertarians, of course, had opposed the war from the start, but at this time, the public sentiment in these united states was generally in favour of deployment. Thus, the average moviegoer did not draw any connection between this film and the war when it was released. A few years later, however, antiwar activists looked back on this libertarian western fondly. The antiwar and propertarian message in this film, however, should be looked upon in a broader context. The message, after all, is timeless. All wars really do resemble the description given by Mr. Anderson. Whether it be the War Between the States, the Vietnam War, or our present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, governments wage them for the perceived benefit of the political class, and they get us to fight for them. Let us, therefore, dream of a brighter future, a future where property rights are respected and where governments, insofar as they continue to exist, are so weak and powerless that they cannot compel even one man to fight on their behalf."
"Leroy Anderson was a crossover composer before anyone came up with the term. The voice of Leroy Anderson became the voice of the Boston Pops in its dual commitment to approachability and to excellence."
"Walter Huston — Abraham Lincoln"
"William L. Thorne — Tom Lincoln"
"Lucille La Verne — Mid-Wife"
"Helen Freeman Corle — Nancy Hanks Lincoln"
"Ian Keith — John Wilkes Booth"
"E. Alyn Warren as Stephen A. Douglas/General Ulysses S. Grant"
"[as the camera pans over the Rocky Mountains] This land has a name today, and is marked on maps. But the names and the marks and the maps all had to be won, won from nature and from primitive man."
"[about the Erie Canal ] About 150 years ago, an idea took shape in the mind of a man named DeWitt Clinton. And in the way Americans have of acting out their dreams, it came to be."
"[about the Civil War] Evening of April 6, 1862. The guns that roared all day fell silent, around a little church called the Shiloh Meeting House. Many a man had met his God that Sunday... but not in church... It had been the bloodiest day of the war on the Western Front. In the morning it had looked like a Confederate victory, but by nightfall, no man dared use the words "win" or "lose." After Shiloh, the South never smiled."
"The west was won by its pioneers, settlers, adventurers is long gone now. Yet it is theirs forever, for they left tracks in history that will never be eroded by wind or rain - never plowed under by tractors, never buried in the compost of events. Out of the hard simplicity of their lives, out of their vitality, of their hopes and sorrows grew legends of courage and pride to inspire their children and their children's children. From soil enriched by their blood, out of their fever to explore and be, came lakes where once were burning deserts - came the goods of the earth; mines and wheat fields, orchards and great lumber mills. All the sinews of a growing country. Out of their rude settlements, their trading posts came cities to rank among the great ones of the world. All the heritage of a people free to dream, free to act, free to mold their own destiny."
"O Lord, without consulting with Thee, we have sent thy way some souls whose evil ways passeth all understanding. We ask Thee humbly to receive them... whether you want them or not! Amen."
"I've got two things no one can ever take from me: This... [pointing to a picture of her husband] and my land in Arizona."
"[to Mike King] Take a good look. You wanted a war, mister, you got one. I hope you're the first man killed in it."
"It ain't quite what I expected. There ain't much glory in lookin' at a man with his guts hanging out."
"[to Zeb Rawlings] Settled down for a year, once. Took ten years off my life!"
"One of these days I'm likely to pay you Rawlingses a little visit."
"There's only one kind of peace I know of, Marshal. That's the kind my brother's got."
"Agatha Clegg: [Lily has asked to partner-up with Agatha in a wagon train] You know something ? I got a hunch you're gonna draw men like fish to bait. Maybe I can catch one of them while they swim by. You got yourself a partner."
"Cpl. Peterson: Mrs. Rawlings, there ain't much glory in trompin' behind a plow."
"The epic journey of four generations of Americans who carved a country with their bare hands."
"A FABULOUS ROMANTIC ADVENTURE"
"It's here! The mightiest adventure ever filmed!"
"24 Great Stars In The Mightiest Adventure Ever Filmed!"
"Spencer Tracy - Narrator"
"James Stewart - Linus Rawlings"
"Carroll Baker - Eve Prescott Rawlings"
"Debbie Reynolds - Lillith Prescott van Valen"
"Karl Malden - Zebulon Prescott"
"Agnes Moorehead - Rebecca Prescott"
"Walter Brennan - Col. Jeb Hawkins"
"Brigid Bazlen - Dora Hawkins"
"Lee Van Cleef - river pirate"
"Gregory Peck - Cleve Van Valen"
"Robert Preston - Roger Morgan"
"Thelma Ritter - Agatha Clegg"
"John Larch - a gambler"
"David Brian - Lilith's attorney"
"George Peppard - Zeb Rawlings"
"Andy Devine - Corporal Peterson"
"Harry Morgan - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant"
"John Wayne - Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman"
"Russ Tamblyn - Confederate deserter"
"Raymond Massey - President Abraham Lincoln"
"Henry Fonda - Jethro Stuart"
"Richard Widmark - Mike King"
"Carolyn Jones - Julie Rawlings"
"Lee J. Cobb - Marshal Lou Ramsey"
"Eli Wallach - Charlie Gant"
"Harry Dean Stanton - a member of Gant's gang"
"Mickey Shaughnessy - Deputy Stover"