The Big Sky (1952)

Kirk Douglas: Jim Deakins

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Quotes 

• Boone Cardell : Why did she want to grab this?

  Zeb Calloway : That's a Blackfoot scalp you got, and she knows it. Ain't you ever thought of why an injun takes a scalp?

  Jim Deakins : Why?

  Zeb Calloway : To shame an enemy. The way she figures it, there's a Blackfoot brave somewhere who can't show his face to the hereafter until that thing is buried under the ground.

• Jim Deakins : Sure is big country. The only thing bigger is the sky.

• Jim Deakins : [Watching Boone play with the Indian scalp and annoyed with him for leaving Teal-Eye]  Playing with that scalp again. Whatd'ya give him that fer? That were a fool thing to do.

  Zeb Calloway : Worse than that, whole story were a lie.

  Jim Deakins : What!

  Zeb Calloway : His brother weren't killed by no injun atall, fell in the river and drowned.

  Jim Deakins : Huh... He wouldn't believe that!

  Zeb Calloway : Nobody would. I just talk too much.

• [while Jim was unconscious, Zeb and Boone amputated Jim's mangled finger] 

  Jim Deakins : Who's got it?

  Boone Cardell : Got what?

  Jim Deakins : My finger! What's a man going to do without his finger?

  Zeb Calloway : What do you want your finger for?

  Jim Deakins : Zeb Calloway, didn't you tell me an injun can't go to heaven unless he's whole? Didn't ya?

  Zeb Calloway : That's right, I did.

  Boone Cardell : You sure did.

  Jim Deakins : That's what I heard. It sounds right, too, don't it?

  Zeb Calloway : Sounds right.

  Boone Cardell : How can you go up there without your finger?

  Jim Deakins : That's what I'm saying! Who's got it? Who's got it? Fine thing to do to a friend!