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"[about being marshal] It's a great life. You risk your skin catchin' killers and the juries turn 'em loose so they can come back and shoot at ya again. If you're honest, you're poor your whole life, and in the end you wind up dyin' all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothin'. For a tin star."
"[about no one volunteering to be a deputy] It figures. It's all happened too sudden. People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care."
"[to Harvey, about Will Kane] You're a good looking boy, you have big broad shoulders, but he is a man. It takes more than big broad shoulders to make a man, Harvey, and you have a long way to go. You know something? I don't think you will ever make it."
"The story of a man who was too proud to run."
"When these hands point straight up...the excitement starts!"
"Simple. Powerful. Unforgettable."
"Gary Cooper - Marshal Will Kane"
"Thomas Mitchell - Mayor Jonas Henderson"
"Lloyd Bridges - Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell"
"Katy Jurado - Helen RamÃrez"
"Grace Kelly - Amy Fowler Kane"
"Otto Kruger - Judge Percy Mettrick"
"Lon Chaney Jr. - Martin Howe"
"Harry Morgan - Sam Fuller"
"Ian MacDonald - Frank Miller"
"Eve McVeagh - Mildred Fuller"
"Morgan Farley - Dr. Mahin, minister"
"Harry Shannon - Cooper"
"Lee Van Cleef - Jack Colby"
"Robert J. Wilke - Jim Pierce"
"Sheb Wooley - Ben Miller"
"Ralph Reed as Johnny"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.