River Lady (1948)

Yvonne De Carlo: Sequin

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Quotes 

• Sequin : He trusts me.

  Beauvais : He must have learned about women in kindergarten.

• Sequin : I'd like to know how we stand.

  Dan Corrigan : Same way we always stood.

  Sequin : That's not good enough.

  Dan Corrigan : What's wrong with it?

  Sequin : For one thing you're out in the woods 8 or 9 months of every year.

  [pauses] 

  Sequin : I'd like to get married and have a home someday, Dan.

  Dan Corrigan : [sternly]  But you don't wanna marry a back country logger, is that it?

  Sequin : That's it.

  Dan Corrigan : Then you better get yourself a new Corrigan.

  Sequin : Why?

  Dan Corrigan : I seen too many men work themselves to death for an ambitious woman.

  Sequin : [angrily]  Do you want to be a river rat *all* your life?

  Dan Corrigan : Why not? You've got something driving you that's making you miserable, that's fine, let it drive you as far as you like - but don't try to push me, Sequin.

• Beauvais : [referring to Dan Corrigan]  Go ahead, make a gentleman out of him. He's just stupid enough to be good material... but after he gets to be a gentleman, he'll want a lady

  [shakes his head] 

  Beauvais : ... not you.

  Sequin : I'd be a little careful of how I talked if I were you.

  Beauvais : One thing's certain, Sequin. All your money, and all your timberland, will never make a lady out of you.

  Sequin : Why, you -

  [throws deck of cards at him] 

  Beauvais : See what I mean?