Broken Lance (1954)

E.G. Marshall: Horace - The Governor

Quotes 

• Horace - The Governor : [after Horace has told Matt he wants Matt's son Joe to stay away from his daughter because Joe is half Indian, and Matt is disgusted by this]  You know I like the boy... this is something that's born and bred in me. I'm 56 years old, I've tried to change...

  Matt Devereaux : You're 56 years old, and you're governor of the state! And who made you that governor of the state - I took you off of an accountant's stool and pulled a pencil out from behind your ear, and made you a politician. I made you a mayor! I sent you to Congress and put you in that chair! 56, you... 56 - you owe me 30 of them.

  Horace - The Governor : You're right, Matt, I do. You've done everything but change me. I wish you had.

  Matt Devereaux : Then maybe I will. Maybe I will. I can still pull that chair right out from under you. Maybe I will.

  [walks to the door and turns before leaving] 

  Matt Devereaux : There's something I'm going to do first. I'm gonna tell my boy that if he wants that girl of yours to take her, if he has to pull her out of the house by the hair on her head.

  [he leaves the room]