Bandolero! (1968)
James Stewart: Mace Bishop
Photos
Quotes
-
Dee Bishop : Mace, you think we could make a go of it in Montana?
Mace Bishop : Dee, there's a town up there called Missoula. Prettiest little place you ever saw.
Dee Bishop : What about the Indians?
Mace Bishop : And the Rockies, they're snow-capped, and the slopes are forested. And there are lots of lakes and valleys.
Dee Bishop : What about the Indians?
Mace Bishop : And there's deer in Montana, Dee. And antelope, and elk, and black bear. And the...
Dee Bishop : Mace, what about the Indians?
Mace Bishop : What Indians?
Dee Bishop : Ain't there no Indians in Montana?
Mace Bishop : Well, they - a few.
Dee Bishop : Ain't the Northern Cheyenne in Montana?
Mace Bishop : The Nor - well, Northern Cheyenne in Mon - I, I wouldn't lie to you.
Dee Bishop : And the Crow, and the Sioux?
Mace Bishop : Well, they're around...
Dee Bishop : What else, Mace?
Mace Bishop : Listen, Dee...
Dee Bishop : What else?
Mace Bishop : Well, they, they - Blackfeet and Chippewa...
Dee Bishop : Some Cree?
Mace Bishop : Yes. Yes, there are Cree in Montana.
Dee Bishop : And the Shoshone, and the Kutenai, and the Stoney...
Mace Bishop : Just what are you tryin' to say?
Dee Bishop : I'm trying to say there's a lot of gosh-darn Indians in Montana, Mace!
Maria Stoner : [rolls her eyes] Ooh.
-
Dee Bishop : [incredulous] You robbed a bank? You, Mace?
Mace Bishop : Well, Dee, the bank was there... and I was there... and there wasn't very much of anybody else there... and it just seemed like the thing to do. Y'know, it's not like you didn't - something you never heard of. Lots of people rob banks for all sorts of different reasons.
Dee Bishop : [bemused] You just walked into a bank and helped yourself to ten thousand dollars 'cause it seemed like the thing to do?
Mace Bishop : That's about the way it was, yeah, as, as well as I can remember, yeah.
-
Mace Bishop : Why do you ride with men like these?
Dee Bishop : Oh, I don't know. I just got used to it, I guess, through the years. You begin one way, you keep going that way, and pretty soon there's no other way.
-
Mace Bishop : How'd you come to marry your husband, Mrs. Stoner?
Maria Stoner : He bought me, Mr. Bishop. He found me in the backroom of a Cantina. He liked me. And, he bought me. He gave my father 5 cows - and a gun. It made my father the richest man in our village.
-
Pop Chaney : You see, there are things a man ought never do -- spit in church, scratch his self in front of his ma, and pick his nose. Yes, that's what my pa learned me and it stood me in good stead.
Mace Bishop : I don't imagine your pa ever mentioned shooting people, and burning their house down, and stealing, and things like that?
Pop Chaney : Well, I'm talking about mannerly things, Mr. Bishop. I ain't talking about making a living.
-
Mace Bishop : It's a tough world, isn't it.
-
Dee Bishop : Still pickin' up after your brother. Mama would be proud of that. Seen Mama lately?
Mace Bishop : Not since the funeral.
-
Mace Bishop : I know you don't believe in talkin'; but, how in the world are you ever gonna find out anything from anybody if you don't talk?
-
Mace Bishop : Don't you think its about time we have a talk?
Dee Bishop : To tell you the truth...
Mace Bishop : You know, eh, liars always start that way.
Dee Bishop : No, Mace, I'll tell you the truth. I can't remember back to a single instance where talkings ever got me any place.
-
Dee Bishop : Still picking up after your brother, Moma would be proud of that. Seen Moma lately?
Mace Bishop : Not since the funeral.
Dee Bishop : Mama's dead?
Mace Bishop : Buried her six weeks to the day after Appomattox. It was raining.
Dee Bishop : [moved] Sh..Sh..She didn't suffer?
Mace Bishop : Only in her mind.
Dee Bishop : Because of me, you mean.
Mace Bishop : Now you're the one that said that.
Dee Bishop : I killed her! That's what you mean.
Mace Bishop : You never did her any good Dee. That's what I mean. The day she found you joined Quantrill she started going downhill for the last time. And then when you fellows burned Lawrence Kansas, after that she never spoke another word, she just sat by the fire and didn't say anything.
Dee Bishop : Hey Robbie, there's a Moma for you. One boy goes with Quantrill the other goes with Sherman. One helps to burn down a town the other helps to burn down a state. And the one that burned down the town is the one that done in his Moma.
Mace Bishop : Sherman was war Dee, Quantrill was meanness.
-
Mace Bishop : [Mace has been trying to convince Dee to go straight and start a ranch with him in Montana. Dee has just said that money will be needed] I think I know where I can get my hands on some.
Pop Chaney : Awaah... your brother won't never make it. There's only one way for him, for me, for any of us.
Mace Bishop : What way is that Mr. Chaney?
Pop Chaney : [Waving his gun] This way. The way we know, the way we growed.
Mace Bishop : Well now that may be so for you, but for my brother it's different.
Pop Chaney : I don't care if he is your brother the son of a bitch... .
Mace Bishop : [Kicks the chair out from under Chaney, draws his revolver and points it at Chaney] Now... before you apologize, I'm going to tell you something Mr. Chaney. My brother and I are the sons of an honest dirt farmer. A man that slaved all his life from sunup to sundown and never took time except to deliver his own children and go to meetin' on Sunday. A man who died of old age at 45 and who never saw more than $10.00 at one time in his whole life. And we're the sons of a woman that married him for his goodness because she was good. And now you can apologize for slandering my family, Mr. Chaney or I'll blow your head off.
Pop Chaney : [Grins derisively at Mace, nobody else is laughing and Maria looks horrified] Awaah you ain't no killer, ain't got the stomach for it.
Mace Bishop : [Cocks the gun and screams...] Apologize!
Pop Chaney : I'm sorry Mr. Bishop. I didn't mean no harm.
Mace Bishop : I'm going outside, Dee, I'd appreciate it if you'd see I don't get shot in the back.
