Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004 Video)

Michael Gross: Hiram Gummer

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• Hiram Gummer : We will make Rejection our last bastion, our last line of defense.

  Juan Padilla : Our Alamo.

  Hiram Gummer : Juan, we were the losers at the Alamo.

  Juan Padilla : Speak for yourself, Gringo.

• Juan Padilla : You always had everything, didn't you?

  Hiram Gummer : Several of everything.

  Juan Padilla : I just like to get one of something.

• Hiram Gummer : I haven't been on a horse since I... since my 6th birthday party. No, actually, that - that was a camel.

• Black Hand Kelly : Hiram, it's about time you learned how to use a real piece.

  Hiram Gummer : That's your job. If I need a gun fired, I hire a gunman.

  Black Hand Kelly : If you want to bed down with a real pretty woman, I suppose you just hire somebody to do that, too!

  Hiram Gummer : Spare me your tiresome analogies!

  Black Hand Kelly : Hiram! Now I said this once, and I'm gonna say it one more time: There's some things that a man has to do for himself, and right now shooting is one of them!

• Fu Yien Chang : Mr Gummer, I fixed your wheel.

  Hiram Gummer : Impossible, it's a complete loss.

  Fu Yien Chang : Nope.

  Hiram Gummer : Well I... my that's remarkable. Thank You. Thank You very much.

  Fu Yien Chang : That'll be five dollars please.

  Hiram Gummer : Now listen here, no workman would dare ask more than two bits.

  Fu Yien Chang : I'm the only wheel fixer in town! No one else till Carson City.

  Hiram Gummer : That's highway robbery.

  Fu Yien Chang : A word of advice, Mr Gummer. Anyone can be taken advantage of. And if you can, do.

• Hiram Gummer : I feel I've not been privy to critical, most needful information.

• Fu Yien Chang : What happened to the gingerbread?

  Hiram Gummer : I ate it of course.

  Fu Yien Chang : But I thought you said I could...

  Hiram Gummer : A word of advice, young man. Anyone can be taken advantage of, and if you can, do.

• Hiram Gummer : Good heaven, what an unpleasant odour.

• Juan Padilla : No, no, no. The mine is not played out. Not at all. There is plenty more silver in there, it's just no one wants to go in there and get it.

  Pyong Lien Chang : Seven more men go up since accident. None come back.

  Tecopa : My ancestors talked of spirit beasts that live inside those mountains.

  Hiram Gummer : Spirit beasts?

  Tecopa : Beasts from the underworld. Blind to all, but killing.

• Christine Lord : You're going to hire a gunfighter?

  Hiram Gummer : Bien, bien, bien. I think that is a good idea.

  Pyong Lien Chang : But is it wise? A gunfighter's usually mean, wild.

  Lu Wan Chang : Yeah, drink, shoot inside house.

  Hiram Gummer : But we need someone with fortitude.

  Old Fred : Someone with a little sand in their craw.

  Hiram Gummer : Exactly. Someone who is proficient with firearms, who can...

  Old Fred : Shoot the nuts off a squirrel at 100 paces.

  Hiram Gummer : Thank you.

  Old Fred : Someone like Doc Holiday.

  Tecopa : Except one that ain't dead.

  Old Fred : Doc Holiday's dead?

• Hiram Gummer : I shall send for my belongings. And, of course, I shall see to it that the horse and equipment are returned.

  Christine Lord : That won't be necessary. You can keep the horse and the saddle and the rifle and the knife; in trade for ownership of the mine.

  Hiram Gummer : You can't be serious.

  Christine Lord : It's the best offer you're going to get.

  Hiram Gummer : When I reach Philadelphia, I intend to sell that mine for at least $50,000.

  Christine Lord : You will be preceded by a telegram to the newspapers, describing in great detail these creatures that plague the mine, and why it is unworkable.

  Hiram Gummer : That's blackmail. You wouldn't betray me like that.

  Lu Wan Chang : We voted.

  Pyong Lien Chang : Oh yeah, four-to-one, in favor of doing exactly that.

  Hiram Gummer : At least one of you has some sense of ethics.

  Tecopa : I voted to drop you off a cliff.

• Christine Lord : Mr. Gummer, I'm Christine Lord. Proprietress of the local hotel.

  Hiram Gummer : Well, you're lovelier than Fifth Avenue in Spring!

  Christine Lord : Welcome to Rejection!

  Hiram Gummer : Aptly named, it would seem!

• Black Hand Kelly : Gummer, dag nab it, ain't you got no pride? Get up on the horse by yourself!

  Hiram Gummer : Should I ever again require horsemanship, I will engage a tutor!

  Black Hand Kelly : I'll tell ya one thing, I ain't got your book-learnin', but I do know this: being full-growed don't make ya a man!

• Hiram Gummer : Well that's just dandy.

• Hiram Gummer : Once I re-open the mine, the whole town will prosper. You'll be able to afford whatever your hearts desire.

  Christine Lord : And what is it that your heart desires, Mr. Gummer?

  Hiram Gummer : To return to the life I had. To wake up every morning and wonder, "What will I spend my money on today?"

  Christine Lord : A curious philosophy. I would venture that it matters not how you spend your money, but how you spend your life.

• Tecopa : My ancestors talked of spirit beasts that live inside those mountains.

  Hiram Gummer : Spirit beasts?

  Tecopa : Beasts from the underworld. Blind to all, but killing.

  Hiram Gummer : Have you all taken leave of your senses? Juan, I want you to gather up the remaining miners, hunt down whatever is doing this.

  Old Fred : And fill 'em full of more holes than a cabbage leaf in a hail storm?

  Hiram Gummer : Precisely.

• Hiram Gummer : if a man like black hand kelly was no match for these things then what chance have we got?