The Missouri Breaks

"I'd like almost anythin' better 'n' bein' burnt up."

"Well, you're about the last of your kind, old man. If I was a better businessman than I am a man hunter, I'd put you in the circus."

"[after killing a man, dressed in a bonnet and shawl] Granny's tired now."

"The first time I met Sandy, he was rustling on his own. He had a stolen cavalry pony and he kept this dog. As soon as he would kill a steer, why he'd cut the brand off and feed it to the dog. So before they could get enough evidence to convict him, they'd have to lock that dog up and pick through his shit for a week before they could find the brand."

"The closer you get to Canada, the more things'll eat your horse."

"[to Clayton, whispering] You know what woke you up? You just had your throat cut."

"We had a famous painter out here last year... did last scenes. That man must have painted ten squares miles of canvas... and not one human face! And I wish he could have been here to paint that boy, Sandy, hanging up there so decoratively against the mountains. Because his pink tongue and his white face would have just set off the green of Montana splendidly. I mean, it would have made the damnedest bank calendar you ever saw!"

"Why don't we just take a walk and we'll just talk about the Wild West and how to get the hell out of it!"

"David Braxton: This is my fourth frontier and I know how they run. I was in the California gold fields before I was eighteen, I was at the rush at Alder Gulch and I went with the grazing committee to South America. These long ropers in the Missouri Breaks are a mixed bag: barbers from Minneapolis, failed grangers, Scandinavian half-breeds, wolfers and woodcutters, dishonest apprentices, raftsmen, poisoners - you give them a chance and they'll waste everything!"

"Cal: A 44.40 in the brain pan would be my sentence for him. Now I don't know why you don't want to go along with that, Tom!"

"Little Tod: Damn, I don't know why they had to put Canada all the way up here."

"Marlon Brando - Robert E. Lee Clayton"

"Jack Nicholson - Tom Logan"

"Randy Quaid - Little Tod"

"Kathleen Lloyd - Jane Braxton"

"Frederic Forrest - Cary"

"Harry Dean Stanton - Cal"

"John McLiam - David Braxton"

"John P. Ryan - Cy"

"Sam Gilman - Hank Rate"

"Steve Franken - Lonesome Kid"

"Richard Bradford - Pete Marker"

"James Greene - Hellsgate rancher"

"Luana Anders - Hellsgate rancher's wife"

"Danny Goldman - Baggage clerk"

"Hunter von Leer - Sandy"