Column South (1953)

Robert Sterling: Capt. Lee Whitlock

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• Brig. Gen. B.N. Stone : I was told you were a man of intense loyalty... deeply devoted to the cause.

  Capt. Lee Whitlock : The cause? Causes may start wars, but they don't win them!

• Capt. Lee Whitlock : The time may come, Lieutenant, when the North and the South are at each other's throat. But as of right now, there's no war being fought. We are all still in the same army.

  Lt. Jed Sayre : I'm glad you feel that way, sir.

  Capt. Lee Whitlock : That's the way I expect every officer and man in this post to feel. And if they don't feel it, they can act it.

• Lt. Jed Sayre : The point is, I don't think Barney was murdered by a Navajo or any other Indian.

  Capt. Lee Whitlock : Well, how can you say that? Half the man's head was gone!

  Lt. Jed Sayre : You didn't see an arrow sticking in him, did you?

  Capt. Lee Whitlock : Proving what?

  Lt. Jed Sayre : Proving this: an Indian may scalp a man, but he'll always stick an arrow in the body. It's superstition. It's supposed to pin the spirit to the corpse so it won't go rising up and haunting the guilty Indian or his friends.

• Capt. Lee Whitlock : What is it, honey? What's wrong?

  Marcy Whitlock : Oh, everything. I can't stand this place, Lee.

  Capt. Lee Whitlock : Well, I'll admit it's nothing like home. But after we get it fixed up, it will be...

  Marcy Whitlock : No. No, it's not just the house. It's taht and everything else: the dirt, the cold, Indians sneaking around at night and rude officers. I just hate it, that's all.