Rachel and the Stranger (1948)

Loretta Young: Rachel

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• Rachel : Oh, Davey, one of the reasons your pa wanted me here was so I could... sorta mother you.

  Davey : The devil it was. You're a bond slave, that's all. Pa bought ya, I seen him through the window when he paid out your price. You was eighteen dollars and four owin'!

• Rachel : [after Big Davey and Jim had been fighting]  Men. Two full-grown men fightin' like a couple of wild Indians. Why?

  [No one answers] 

  Rachel : All right, Davey, why was they fightin'?

  Big Davey : You shut, Dave.

  Rachel : You speak, Dave.

  Davey : Well, Jim wanted to buy you with a profit from Pa, and Pa told him to...

  Big Davey : You shut Dave!

  Rachel : He'll speak if he wants and all he wants. And so will I.

  Jim : Maybe that's best. Now you tell Big Davey you're goin' along with me.

  Big Davey : [Big Davey gets his ire up]  Why, you...

  Rachel : Now hold on, hold on!

  [restrains Big Davey] 

  Rachel : [to Jim]  Me goin' along with you?

  Jim : Now, this may, may come as a surprise to you Rachel, it is to me, but I...

  Rachel : So's I can be bought and sold as you two please? Now, you wanna buy me so's you can have a wife and a slave at the same time just like he has. And then when you want to change you can sell me to somebody else like he's doin'.

  Big Davey : Now Rachel, I...

  Rachel : You shut! I'm beginning to believe that's just the way you think about a wife. Both of you. Someone to be bought or sold. Someone to cook for you and do your chores and flatter your manhood every now and then.

  [Disgustedly] 

  Rachel : Manhood. Just look at you. I'm going back to the stockade.

• Big Davey : It's like giving the boy readin' and writin' and arithmetic, saying grace before meals. It's, well, keeping up appearances, no matter how deep you get in the wilderness.

  Rachel : I understand. Is that all?

  Big Davey : [as Rachel holds a heavy bucket]  I reckon you'll have trouble with your hands at first. And it ain't fittin' that you're so frail, you oughta fill out a little.

  Rachel : I'll see to it, Mr. Harvey.

  Big Davey : Sure got a mess o' hair.