Dark Command (1940)
John Wayne: Bob Seton
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Quotes
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Miss Mary McCloud : I thought they bred men of flesh and blood in Texas. I was wrong. You're made of granite!
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : No, Mary, just common clay. It bakes kind of hard in Texas.
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Andrew 'Doc' Grunch : You knock 'em loose and I'll pull 'em out. Maybe, I'm just saying maybe, you know; if you was more promiscuous with your punching, we might make a little more money.
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : What do you mean - promiscuous?
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch : Well, ah, you got strange ideas about justice. You don't want to hit nobody unless they deserve it. Now, that's all right, but we're in business. And business is different!
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Andrew 'Doc' Grunch : You know, you could make something of yourself if you tried.
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Yeah?
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch : Yeah. You could run for marshal.
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Me being a marshal? Are you loco?
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch : Well, you could try. It's better for a young fella like you to be working for Uncle Sam than against him.
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : I can't even read or write. You know that!
Andrew 'Doc' Grunch : Listen, you don't read or write a man into jail.
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Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Folks, it's true. I don't know much about the law. Ain't had much book learning. But the good Lord gave me a nose for smelling a horse thief a mile off. And what you need in these parts is a marshal that's better at smelling than spelling.
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Miss Mary McCloud : Now, will you please get to the point and tell me what you want?
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : I want to marry you.
Miss Mary McCloud : You what?
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Well, I ain't got no job right now, but I figure to get one. And outside of a snort of hooch now and then, I got no bad habits.
Miss Mary McCloud : I'd say asking a perfect stranger to marry you is a very bad habit!
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Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : Well, I guess Lawrence is burned to the ground.
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Yeah. Well, we got a saying down in Texas: that it takes a good fire to burn down the weeds... to let the flowers grow.
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Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : [accepting Cantrell's dinner invitation] This is the first time I've had two kinds of bird for dinner - turkey to eat, and buzzard to look at.
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Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : [to "Doc" before he makes his election speech] I gotta get outta here!
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Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : Ever hear what William Shakespeare said - All's well that ends well.
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Shakespeare, huh? He must've been from Texas. We been sayin' that down there for years!
[last lines]
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[Inside barber shop after a brawl on the street and after Bob had told Fletch that he wants to marry Mary McCloud]
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : I don't think I got your name.
Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : It's Fletch McCloud .
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Fletch McCloud. You got a first name?
Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : Yeah, Cupid!
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Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : You know that girl I was staring at when all the ruckus started?
Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : Yeah.
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Well, who is she?
Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : Well, her name is Mary McCloud. Why?
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Well, I'll tell you. I think maybe I'll marry her.
Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : What ?
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Course if she'll have me, I mean. Fella wouldn't wanna marry anyone that didn't want him, naturally.
Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : Oh, naturally. Uh, you know her well?
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : Naw, just seen her once or twice. Once she was on a horse, and...
Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : ...next time she was with a jackass.
[referring to Cantrell / Walter Pidgeon]
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : He is, huh? Makes it easier, don't it?
Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : Practically a cinch. Say, you do things kinda sudden don't you?
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton : No, not exactly. But you see I got 'er figured out this way. If you LIKE someone - and you don't tell 'em right off - well, maybe all that time you wasted, she liked you, too. So... well, all that time's wasted, ain't it?
Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud : Well, it IS the way you put it.