Swamp Water (1941)
Dana Andrews: Ben
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Quotes
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Ben : You tryin' to get me killed?
Tom Keefer : I'm tryin' to find out if there's anyone in the world who kin speak the honest truth.
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Tom Keefer : Say Ben, tell me - how does she look, is she pretty?
Ben : Well, Tom, I wouldn't exactly say she took after you.
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Ben : This here's Miss Julia... Miss Gordon.
Hannah : Sure, I seen you at Mrs. McCord's. You look a sight pretty child, I've been a' watching you with Ben.
Julie : Thank you.
Thursday Ragan : Ain't you Tom Keefer's young 'un?
Julie : Yes sir.
Ben : I brung her to this dance and I ain't going to have nobody runnin' her down.
Thursday Ragan : I don't aim to have words with none of my kin in public. I mean no offense against this young 'un, but you're the one that seemed ashamed to say her name, not me.
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Ben : It's gettin' where I'll expect nothing from you but a bossified tongue and a cussin' out.
Mabel MacKenzie : You ain't felt my tongue yet Ben.
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Thursday Ragan : If you'd a minded me, and kept outen that swamp like I told you Ben, you wouldn't be in no fix like you're in... What's the matter boy?
Ben : If you'll be giving me my clothes, I'll be takin' myself offen your hands.
Thursday Ragan : No, you won't - you'll be quiet now. You're sick Ben.
Ben : I ain't so sick I have to lay here and listen to you give me down the country. I knowed that was all you drug me out of that crick for.
Thursday Ragan : I drug you out because you was my boy.
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Sheriff Jeb McKane : [admiring a panther hide] Where'd you catch him, Ben?
Ben : Back in the swamp.
Marty McCord : How'd you get him?
Ben : We got him with a load of buckshot.
Tim Dorson : Oh, so you was with somebody.
Ben : I mean me and my dog.
Tim Dorson : I knowed you had a smart dog, Ben, but I never heard he could handle a shotgun.
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Ben : I never in my life asked for no kiss, always just took 'em. I'll be dogged if I ain't asking you now, Julie.
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Ben : We'll get out Keefer - if I have to bash you in the head when you ain't looking.
Tom Keefer : Bud, there ain't no man livin' can catch me when I ain't lookin'.