Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Olivia de Havilland: 'Kit Carson' Holliday

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• Kit Carson Holliday : Jeb, I'm frightened. That boy is crippled for life. And that man on the train, he died for a principle. A man killed for a principle. One of them is wrong, but which one?

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Who knows the answer to that, Kit. Everybody in America is trying to decide.

  Kit Carson Holliday : Yes, by words from the East, and by guns from the West. But one day, the words will turn into guns.

• Kit Carson Holliday : Oh, Jeb, what does pride got to do with guns?

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Kit, the two things kind of come together down South. You can't pry them apart. Not even with guns.

• Cyrus K. Holliday : I thought two years in Boston would make a lady out of you.

  Kit Carson Holliday : So did I. It just popped out.

• George Armstrong Custer : You know, the first time I saw you at the graduation I thought of what Napoleon said when he first met Josephine.

  Kit Carson Holliday : What was that?

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : He said, "I never knew this savage land they call America could breath such perfect beauty in mortal form."

  Kit Carson Holliday : Oh. Thank you. That's a lovely line.

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Yes, isn't it? George has been using it for years.

• George Armstrong Custer : You were going to tell me something more about Kansas.

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Yes, what do you do on Saturday nights for fun here?

  Kit Carson Holliday : Well, as I remember, half of Leavenworth takes a bath another the half gets drunk. And since there are only two bathtubs in town, things get kind of exciting around midnight.

• Kit Carson Holliday : Ninety eight tons of freight ready to roll and no orders for loading. How did you run this business while I was away?

  Cyrus K. Holliday : That's why I sent you away to show you what a skirt was. Look at your clothes, look at the grease on your nose. What would your friends in Boston think of you now?

  Kit Carson Holliday : Frankly, dad, I don't much care.

• James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : By the way, how did they ever came to name you Kit Carson Holliday?

  Kit Carson Holliday : Well, Mr. Carson and my dad were very good friends. And they were so sure I was going to be a boy that they named me before I was born.

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Oh, I see. Well, I'm certainly glad they were wrong.

  George Armstrong Custer : Me too.

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Me too.

  Kit Carson Holliday : Me too!

• Kit Carson Holliday : You settin' up housekeeping at Santa Fe or is this just - gilding the lily?

• James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Haven't you got any heart at all?

  Kit Carson Holliday : Yes, I have, and it's going to stay right where it is. I don't know a thing about you, Jeb Stuart. My brother thinks you're wonderful. But then he was dropped on his head when he was a baby.

• Kit Carson Holliday : Where in thunder have you been?

  Windy Brody : Well, you see, we had to buy these knick-knacks. Well, we sort of got a gal in Santa Fe, Lilly, uh...

  Tex Bell : Hofstadter and what do you mean we? I'm engaged to her.

  Windy Brody : Well, who ain't?

• Kit Carson Holliday : His reasons may be right, Jason. They may even be great and good reasons. But what your father is doing is wrong, terribly wrong. And he will keep on repeating that wrong as long as he lives.

• Kit Carson Holliday : Oh, Jeb, can't it be stopped now? Can't the slaves be free before it's too late?

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : It will be stopped - when we hang John Brown. Then the South can settle our own problem without loss of pride at being forced into it by a bunch of fanatics.

  Kit Carson Holliday : Oh, Jeb, what has pride got to do with human lives?

  James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Kit, the two things kind of come together down South. We can't pry them apart. Not even with guns. I hope that's going to be the same way with us.

  [kiss] 

• Kit Carson Holliday : Jeb. Jeb! Jeb, he's dead.