Major Dundee (1965)
James Coburn: Samuel Potts
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Quotes
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Samuel Potts : [after seeing the remans of Lieutenant Bannon who was tortured over a slow fire] Bannon was a soldier, Amos. It goes with the pretty girls and the pension.
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Maj. Amos Dundee : Sam...
Samuel Potts : Yeah?
Maj. Amos Dundee : Don't get yourself killed... That would inconvenience me.
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Maj. Amos Dundee : [after the Apache ambush] How did they know?
Samuel Potts : They're Apache.
Maj. Amos Dundee : [on Riago] And just what in hell is he?
Riago : I am tame Apache. A camp dog. Christian Indian. Charriba, is Apache.
Maj. Amos Dundee : Sam, you take this "camp dog" and go find me Charriba.
Samuel Potts : That's what you pay us for, Amos.
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Maj. Amos Dundee : Mr. Potts.
Samuel Potts : Major?
Maj. Amos Dundee : I'm a long way from Gettysburg. Any suggestions?
Samuel Potts : Yeah. Let's, uh, go have a look... slow and easy.
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Samuel Potts : I am Samuel Potts, I bring complements of Major Amos Dundee, regular, United States cavalry. You have five minutes to surrender your troops and your stores before he cuts loose.
Capt. Jacques Tremaine : [putting on his dress coat as he speaks] He would not dare. This is a horrendous violation of international law, and an unprovoked confrontation with a friendly power...
Samuel Potts : Sonny, the Major ain't no lawyer. And you've now got *four* minutes.
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Capt. Benjamin Tyreen : Now Major, or across the river in Texas?
Maj. Amos Dundee : Here's just fine, Ben.
Samuel Potts : [surveying the French army from a high rock] You boys want a fight? I've got one for you! Come up here and look!
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Maj. Amos Dundee : Lieutenant Brannin didn't trust Riago, right Ryan?
Tim Ryan : Yes, sir.
Maj. Amos Dundee : I'm afraid I go along with that, Sam.
Samuel Potts : Well, you go along with Lieutenant Brannin. But you'll have to go along without me.
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Maj. Amos Dundee : [referring to Potts's Apache scouts] You expect me to believe these Apache would turn on their own families, track down their own people?
Samuel Potts : Well, why not? Everybody else seems to be doin' it.
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Maj. Amos Dundee : [having found Riago crucified to a tree] Go cut him down, Sam.
Samuel Potts : You cut him down, Major. I think he's earned it.
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Samuel Potts : Says he got close enough to smell the stink of many white men. I wager they're waitin' for us at the river, Amos. Says, we'd better walk on water.
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Maj. Amos Dundee : The woman?
Samuel Potts : I don't know, Amos. If they hanged her, they cut her down. Them boys in the pretty hats make the Apache look like missionaries.
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen : Never underestimate the value of a European education.
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Samuel Potts : You'd better stay off those streets, Amos. You make an unlikely-lookin' Mexican.