Apache Drums (1951)

Stephen McNally: Sam Leeds

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• Joe Madden : I got a knack at healing. I know something about it.

  Sam Leeds : Look, you're a great horse doctor, Joe, and...

  Joe Madden : There isn't much difference between a horse and a human. At least I know how to get started. You wouldn't even know that.

• [Leeds and Griffin are surrounded by Indians] 

  Sam Leeds : No bullets, no protection... not even anything worth taking a last look at.

  Reverend Griffin : It is God's earth, man. You wouldn't reject it in the hour of your death.

• Sam Leeds : I guess the winning hand always comes up after the game has been played. That's the way it always is.

• Sam Leeds : I like your notion, Reverend, that Apaches are just evils the Lord created to try honest men. I'm saved! I'm not an honest man.

• Sam Leeds : Some men are makers. They got to sweat for what they want. I'm a taker. I got to be one.

  Sally : You could be good and honest.

  Sam Leeds : I saw my father work his heart out on a lathe in Bridgeport. He died young and he died broke. He was an honest man. I never want to be one.

• Sam Leeds : Look, Reverend, you give a dog a bad name and everybody throws a stone at him. Sure, I gamble. I drink, too. I killed a man who was trying to kill me. This is a rough country and you got to take care of yourself.

• Sam Leeds : You feel it's my fault that you're out here, huh?

  Rev. Griffin : I put no blame on you now.

  Sam Leeds : Well, if it'd make you feel any better, you were right.

  Rev. Griffin : About what?

  Sam Leeds : I never really cared about the town needin' water, I just wanted to show what a smart fellow I was - I wanted Sally to see that, and make a fool out of Joe. Now I only wish I could tell her I was wrong - about a lot of things.

  Rev. Griffin : She will know.

• Sally : You'll have to go without me Sam. Maybe I'm selfish. All I want is what every woman wants - a home, a place in the town where she lives, and an honest husband.

  Sam Leeds : Yeah, it all adds up kind of dull and tame - like Joe Madden.