Forty Guns (1957)

Barry Sullivan: Griff Bonell

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• Jessica Drummond : I'm not interested in *you*, Mr. Bonnell. It's your trademark.

  [gestures at his gun, purring] 

  Jessica Drummond : May I feel it?

  Griff Bonnell : Uh-uh.

  Jessica Drummond : Just curious.

  Griff Bonnell : It might go off in your face.

  Jessica Drummond : I'll take a chance.

• Griff Bonnell : What's the matter? You look upset.

  Jessica Drummond : I was born upset.

• Griff Bonnell : [on being offered her foreman's job]  Why me?

  Jessica Drummond : I need a strong man to carry out my orders.

  Griff Bonnell : And a weak man to take them.

• Griff Bonnell : Last time I killed a man was 10 years ago, a boy. He was no good like your brother but he was still a boy and I killed him. I could have made a crippling shot but I didn't. Did you ever see a dead boy's eyes in the sky? Threw his gun in the west. You know why I hate to get into fights? I can't miss. Am I talking too much? In my heart I've always asked forgiveness before I kill just like an Indian asking for forgiveness from an animal before the slaughter. You can't ask after you kill, it's too late then. I didn't come here to talk about that, I came to talk about Brockie. He put Charlie Savage's corpse on public display in a store window. A boy who do a thing like that is dead, or nearly dead, but there's still time.