Angel and the Badman (1947)

John Wayne: Quirt Evans

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• Quirt Evans : I thought you weren't allowed to work on Sunday.

  Penelope Worth : Oh, Quirt, there's nothing we're not allowed to do. It's just that we don't believe in doing what we know is wrong.

  Quirt Evans : Well, that makes it pretty much each fella's own guess.

  Penelope Worth : But each fella knows inside.

  Quirt Evans : Well, there's a lot of gents I wouldn't want to give that much leeway to.

• Quirt Evans : Funny thing about pancakes: I lose my appetite for 'em after the first couple a dozen.

  Mrs. Worth : Aw, they weren't very good this morning... too heavy.

• Quirt Evans : [reads the plaque on the wall]  "Each human being has an integrity that can be hurt only by the act of that same human being and not by the act of another human being."

  Quirt Evans : Is that Quaker stuff?

  Penelope Worth : Uh huh.

  Quirt Evans : You mean nobody can hurt you but yourself?

  Penelope Worth : That's a Friend's belief.

  Quirt Evans : Well, supposin' someone whacks you over the head with a branding iron? Won't that hurt?

  Penelope Worth : Physically, of course. But in reality it would injure only the person doing the act of force of violence. Only the doer can be hurt by a mean or evil act.

  Quirt Evans : Are there very many of you Quakers?

  Penelope Worth : Very few.

  Quirt Evans : I sort of figured that.

• [Quirt got Frederick Carson to release some water, and they've come to the Worth farm] 

  Quirt Evans : [to Penny]  Well, looks like your prayers straightened everything out.

  Penelope Worth : So you think your gun changed Frederick Carson, hmm?

  Quirt Evans : Who says I pointed a gun?

  Penelope Worth : I do.

  Quirt Evans : Well, I didn't.

  Penelope Worth : Then he gave in more easily than I expected. Thee remember this, Quirt: the Lord moves in mysterious manner at times, using strange methods and odd instruments.

  Quirt Evans : Me?

  Penelope Worth : [nods "yes] 

  Quirt Evans : Well that would be odd.

• Penelope Worth : Surely you can walk to the barn without that.

  Quirt Evans : What?

  Penelope Worth : The gun!

  Quirt Evans : Oh, well, it balances me. One leg's longer than the other. You know, the weight.

  Penelope Worth : Thee are a liar.

• [Quirt has awakened after two days recovery] 

  Mrs. Worth : Oh, if he's hungry he's going to be alright.

  Quirt Evans : Thanks a lot for housing me.

  Mrs. Worth : You're welcome. Smoked sausage and eggs?

  Quirt Evans : Sounds great.

  Mrs. Worth : Two eggs... or would you like three?

  Quirt Evans : I'd like six!

  Mrs. Worth : [laughs]  You shall have them.

• Quirt Evans : He swung a wide loop in his younger days, I think.

  Penelope Worth : A wide loop?

  Quirt Evans : He wasn't too careful whose calf he threw his rope at.

• [after Laredo visits the ranch and pays Quirt for the land, Quirt prepares to leave and puts some of the money in a can for the Worths] 

  Mrs. Worth : Oh no, Quirt, no!

  Quirt Evans : What kind of a boarder do you think I am?

  Thomas Worth : You can't do that. We'd tend to any wounded human... and not for pay.

  Quirt Evans : You don't believe in force - so you can't force me to take it back.

  Mrs. Worth : I'm afraid you're outwitted, Thomas.

  Quirt Evans : How long have I been here?

  Thomas Worth : Almost three weeks.

  Quirt Evans : Kinda hate to get goin'.

  Mrs. Worth : Oh, but you can't... your leg... you're in no condition to travel.

  Quirt Evans : Don't worry. Your cooking's got me grained up and ready for market. Adios amigos.

• [Carson is getting ready to mount and leave the Worth farm with his baskets of baked goods] 

  Frederick Carson : Hold my plunder while I get aboard, will ya?

  Frederick Carson : [Carson mounts]  You know, Mrs. Worth is gonna keep me supplied in pies and I'm gonna bring her over a quarter of beef now and then. Finally come to an understandin' with my neighbors.

  Quirt Evans : You sure did.

  Frederick Carson : Oh, well, course, you know I was just scared to death when I made that speech to them people. I'm glad you made me do it. makes me feel good. Adios, amigo.

• Penelope Worth : Quirt, please stay away from Laredo Stevens.

  Quirt Evans : He owes me money. And don't worry - I might come out on top.

  Penelope Worth : That'd be even worse.

  Quirt Evans : Worse! Then it'd be worse if he goes down than if I go down?

  Penelope Worth : Of course, don't you see that...

  Quirt Evans : Oh, I know, I'd be a guy with a marked soul.

  Penelope Worth : Don't make it sound so crude, Quirt. You see why - I couldn't love you.

  Quirt Evans : Alright, I won't look up Laredo. It's better this way: every time he opens a door, every time he hears footsteps comin' around a corner... Laredo'll start sweatin', thinkin' it's me. His food won't sit well the rest of his life.

  [he sees that she's looking sort of annoyed and amused at his attitude] 

  Quirt Evans : Well, alright; but if I'm gonna be holy, I gotta get some fun out of it!

• [at the First Day meeting, Nelson is talking with Penny; Quirt pulls him aside] 

  Quirt Evans : This'll sound like I'm buttin' into your business - and I am! And you oughta give me a watch with a gold case for doin' it. You dim-witted nail-bender, marry that girl!

  Nelson : Marry her? Why I assure you my intentions... well she knows how I feel.

  Quirt Evans : How would she know? Stop yammerin' about shoein' horses - that's no way to talk to a girl. Talk to her about HER. And marry her... and do it quick!

• [Quirt and Randy are getting ready to leave the First day meeting. Randy is reading aloud from the Bible given to Quirt by the Quakers] 

  Randy McCall : Listen to this: "And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts of valor, slew two men of Moab and went down and slew three lions in the midst of a pit in the time of snow."

  Randy McCall : [to Quirt]  Whew, three lions!

  Randy McCall : [continues reading]  "And Benaiah slew an Egyptian who had a sword. He took away his sword and slew him with a staff... " I guess that must mean a club. Oh, brother, this is good writing!

  Quirt Evans : Let's go!

  Randy McCall : What about the Bible? You can't throw it away, that would be bad luck.

  Quirt Evans : Then keep it!

  Randy McCall : Alright. This is one book I'm sure gonna read.

• [Dr. Mangrum has been tending to Penny after the accident with the wagon; he takes a bottle from his buggy, drinks, and offers the bottle to Quirt] 

  Dr. Mangrum : Drink?

  [no response from Quirt] 

  Dr. Mangrum : It's amazing the varied uses to which men put alcohol. To each different individual it's either a stimulant, a depressant or an anodine. Just now I'm using it as an anodine.

  Quirt Evans : Get to the point.

  Dr. Mangrum : The practice of medicine is one of the most infuriating professions known to man. It takes thirty years of experience to teach you that - in the final analysis - there's nothing to do but stand and watch.

• Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock : [after Marshal McClintock shoots Laredo and Hondo]  Nothin' ever works out right. I had them dead to rights. They'd got the Baker stage - so I figured I'd watch the ruckus. You'd down them and I'd hang you. Sorta killing three 'hawks' with one stone, so to speak. Nothin'... nothin' ever works out right.

  [Quirt picks up Penny and then sits in the back of the wagon with her on his lap] 

  Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock : Well, I missed you again, Quirt. But I'm patient. It's only a matter of time and I hang you.

  Quirt Evans : Not me, Mister. From now on, I'm a farmer.

• Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock : When are you and Laredo Stevens going to get around to killing one another?

  Quirt Evans : Laredo? Well, we water our horses outa the same trough.

  Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock : Well, I'm sure looking forward to hanging the survivor.

• Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock : There's a sight I never thought I'd see: Quirt Evans behind a plow.

  Quirt Evans : That pony walks as soft as you do.

  Territorial Marshal Wistful McClintock : I taught him. Oh, I figured you'd have heard him... 'cept you were thinkin' too hard.

  Quirt Evans : Haven't you got some real important business to attend to... some place else?

• Quirt Evans : Does a lot of foofarah and nonsense have to go with it? I'm not gonna stand for a lot of dressin' up and jabberin' people lookin' at me just 'cause I'm gettin' married.

• Quirt Evans : [Bradley is in the street, Quirt rides up slowly and dismounts]  Know Laredo Stevens?

  Bradley : He's in the Eagle, and that pistol whippin' Hondo's with 'im!

  Quirt Evans : [grimly]  Take 'im a message.

• Quirt Evans : Will thee get my pants!

  Penelope Worth : [smiling]  Get the pants, John

  Johnny Worth : What you said!

  Quirt Evans : What are you lookin' at?

  Penelope Worth : Thee.

  Johnny Worth : Oh boy, it's a good thing I'm not a tattletale.

  Quirt Evans : What set him off?

  Penelope Worth : Thee used the familiar in speaking to me.

  Quirt Evans : The what?

  Penelope Worth : The familiar. The plain language. "Get thee my pants.", thee said.

  Quirt Evans : Well, what about it?

  Penelope Worth : Well among us, "thee" and "thou" are used only to loved ones. To all others, we use "you" and "he" and "they".

• Johnny Worth : They say you're the fastest man in the territory.

  Quirt Evans : [looking at Penny]  Some say I'm the slowest.

• Mrs. Worth : What harm can there be in a little donut? Unless one eats so many of them that they explode, which is likely to happen to you, young man.

  Quirt Evans : Well, there's worse ways of checking out.

• Quirt Evans : What did I talk about?

  Penelope Worth : Well you talked of Margaret. She, uh, she filled out a red dress.

  Quirt Evans : What else?

  Penelope Worth : Oh, you mentioned someone named, uh, Lila?

  Quirt Evans : That's all?

  Penelope Worth : If you have a wife, we could notify her.

  Quirt Evans : No wife.

  [Penelope turns away with a big smile on her face] 

• Johnny Worth : What would've happened if they knew the gun was empty?

  Quirt Evans : It'd been Saturday night in Sioux City.