Ruby Gentry (1952)
Charlton Heston: Boake Tackman
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Quotes
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Boake Tackman : You can buy a lot of things with Jim's money, Mrs Gentry, but you can't buy your way out of the swamp, and you can't buy me!
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Ruby Gentry : You can get a job, and I can work. We don't need the McAuliffe's money!
Boake Tackman : Ruby, I'm not talking about earning a living. For a hundred years the Tackmans have been sliding downhill. Ever since the tide swallowed our plantation, not one of them lifted a finger to do anything about it. Sittin' out their lives on verandas, soppin' up bourbon whiskey. Like my dad. I'm not gonna' end up like him. I'm gonna' do things that'll shake this whole town awake. Shake the whole Tidewater. Things I can be proud of.
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Boake Tackman : To better times: when the swamp trotters take over and turn the whole world into a stinkin' swamp.
