The Man Behind the Gun (1953)

Randolph Scott: Major Ransome Callicut

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• Major Ransome Callicut : [as voiceover narrator]  Los Angeles - thirty difficult miles from San Pedro. Here in the tropical sun it was hard to believe that the City of Angels had its share of unholy activities.

• Major Ransome Callicut : I'll get Creegan. I'll chop off the head of the scorpion; then the legs won't be able to crawl.

• Lora Roberts : Your mother and father were killed by the Indians. The Third Cavalry found you and raised you. Raised you on blood and black powder.

  Major Ransome Callicut : And saber floggings! That's how I learned religion.

  Lora Roberts : Religion?

  Major Ransome Callicut : Duty! - The religion of the Army. Forget it for a minute and a tough sergeant beats it back into you with the flat of a saber. Duty's a god, Miss Roberts, a jealous god! It makes demands. It tears you to pieces, but you kneel down and...

  Lora Roberts : Yes. Yes, I think I understand duty - the same thing that makes me teach school in a place that...

  [They stare at each other for a long time and embrace] 

• Chona Degnon : You are a very bad boy, eh?

  Major Ransome Callicut : Misunderstood, that's all.

  [Chona laughs]