Duel in the Sun (film)

"Pearl Chavez is my girl, and she'll always be my girl. Just as long as I want her to be. [shoots Sam] Has anybody else around her got any fancy ideas about Pearl Chavez? Well, don't seem to be no takers."

"[singing, after derailing a train for sport, killing many people] I've been working on the railroad, all the live-long day..."

"You call her a child, Laura Belle? Under that heathen blanket, there's a full-blossomed woman fit for the devil to drive men crazy...Guidance she needs and guidance she'll get or I ain't been the Sin Killer from here to El Paso for thirty years."

"Oh Lord, look upon this thy creature. She's a weak vessel and a pauper as thou knowest, but she wants to be thy handmaiden. Give her the horse sense not to go wanderin' off in the tulies with worthless cowpokes. Amen."

"Oh, Lord, have mercy on all men - young and old alike - who gaze upon this, Thy regained servant. Amen."

"Deep among the lonely sun-baked hills of Texas, the great and weatherbeaten stone still stands. The Comanches called it Squaw's Head Rock. Time cannot change its impassive face, nor dim the legend of the wild young lovers who found Heaven and Hell in the shadows of the rock. For when the sun is low and the cold wind blows across the desert, there are those of Indian blood who still speak of Pearl Chavez, the half-breed girl from down along the border, and of the laughing outlaw with whom she here kept a final rendezvous, never to be seen again... And this is what the legend says: A flower, known nowhere else, grows from out of the desperate crags where Pearl vanished. Pearl, who was herself a wild flower, sprung from the hard clay - quick to blossom and early to die."

"Scott Chavez: [after murdering Pearl's mother and her lover] I plead no mitigating circumstances. They deserved to die, as I deserve to die, for I long since killed a person much superior to either of them: myself. I killed that person the day I gave my family's name to the woman who became my wife. And since I believe the punishment should fit the crime, I suggest that you hang me by the neck until I'm dead."

"Emotions...As Violent As The Wind-Swept Prairie!"

"FURIOUS, UNFORGETTABLE LOVE!"

"Jennifer Jones - Pearl Chavez"

"Joseph Cotten - Jesse McCanles"

"Gregory Peck - Lewton "Lewt" McCanles"

"Lionel Barrymore - Senator Jackson McCanles"

"Herbert Marshall - Scott Chavez"

"Lillian Gish - Laura Belle McCanles"

"Walter Huston - Jubal Crabbe, The Sinkiller"

"Charles Bickford - Sam Pierce"

"Harry Carey - Lem Smoot"

"Charles Dingle - Sheriff Hardy"

"Sidney Blackmer - The "Lover" of Mrs. Chavez"

"Butterfly McQueen - Vashti"

"Otto Kruger - Mr. Langford"

"Joan Tetzel - Helen Langford"

"Tilly Losch - Mrs. Chavez"

"Orson Welles - narrator (uncredited)"