Major Dundee (1965)

James Coburn: Samuel Potts

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• Samuel Potts : [after seeing the remans of Lieutenant Bannon who was tortured over a slow fire]  Bannon was a soldier, Amos. It goes with the pretty girls and the pension.

• Maj. Amos Dundee : Sam...

  Samuel Potts : Yeah?

  Maj. Amos Dundee : Don't get yourself killed... That would inconvenience me.

• Maj. Amos Dundee : [after the Apache ambush]  How did they know?

  Samuel Potts : They're Apache.

  Maj. Amos Dundee : [on Riago]  And just what in hell is he?

  Riago : I am tame Apache. A camp dog. Christian Indian. Charriba, is Apache.

  Maj. Amos Dundee : Sam, you take this "camp dog" and go find me Charriba.

  Samuel Potts : That's what you pay us for, Amos.

• Maj. Amos Dundee : Mr. Potts.

  Samuel Potts : Major?

  Maj. Amos Dundee : I'm a long way from Gettysburg. Any suggestions?

  Samuel Potts : Yeah. Let's, uh, go have a look... slow and easy.

• Samuel Potts : I am Samuel Potts, I bring complements of Major Amos Dundee, regular, United States cavalry. You have five minutes to surrender your troops and your stores before he cuts loose.

  Capt. Jacques Tremaine : [putting on his dress coat as he speaks]  He would not dare. This is a horrendous violation of international law, and an unprovoked confrontation with a friendly power...

  Samuel Potts : Sonny, the Major ain't no lawyer. And you've now got *four* minutes.

• Capt. Benjamin Tyreen : Now Major, or across the river in Texas?

  Maj. Amos Dundee : Here's just fine, Ben.

  Samuel Potts : [surveying the French army from a high rock]  You boys want a fight? I've got one for you! Come up here and look!

• Maj. Amos Dundee : Lieutenant Brannin didn't trust Riago, right Ryan?

  Tim Ryan : Yes, sir.

  Maj. Amos Dundee : I'm afraid I go along with that, Sam.

  Samuel Potts : Well, you go along with Lieutenant Brannin. But you'll have to go along without me.

• Maj. Amos Dundee : [referring to Potts's Apache scouts]  You expect me to believe these Apache would turn on their own families, track down their own people?

  Samuel Potts : Well, why not? Everybody else seems to be doin' it.

• Maj. Amos Dundee : [having found Riago crucified to a tree]  Go cut him down, Sam.

  Samuel Potts : You cut him down, Major. I think he's earned it.

• Samuel Potts : Says he got close enough to smell the stink of many white men. I wager they're waitin' for us at the river, Amos. Says, we'd better walk on water.

• Maj. Amos Dundee : The woman?

  Samuel Potts : I don't know, Amos. If they hanged her, they cut her down. Them boys in the pretty hats make the Apache look like missionaries.

  Capt. Benjamin Tyreen : Never underestimate the value of a European education.

• Samuel Potts : You'd better stay off those streets, Amos. You make an unlikely-lookin' Mexican.