Rachel and the Stranger (1948)

Robert Mitchum: Jim

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Quotes 

• Jim : You ain't ordering me off, Davey. I'm leaving of my own accord but not without Rachel. I offered to buy you out fair and square.

• Rachel : [after Big Davey and Jim had been fighting]  Men. Two full-grown men fightin' like a couple of wild Indians. Why?

  [No one answers] 

  Rachel : All right, Davey, why was they fightin'?

  Big Davey : You shut, Dave.

  Rachel : You speak, Dave.

  Davey : Well, Jim wanted to buy you with a profit from Pa, and Pa told him to...

  Big Davey : You shut Dave!

  Rachel : He'll speak if he wants and all he wants. And so will I.

  Jim : Maybe that's best. Now you tell Big Davey you're goin' along with me.

  Big Davey : [Big Davey gets his ire up]  Why, you...

  Rachel : Now hold on, hold on!

  [restrains Big Davey] 

  Rachel : [to Jim]  Me goin' along with you?

  Jim : Now, this may, may come as a surprise to you Rachel, it is to me, but I...

  Rachel : So's I can be bought and sold as you two please? Now, you wanna buy me so's you can have a wife and a slave at the same time just like he has. And then when you want to change you can sell me to somebody else like he's doin'.

  Big Davey : Now Rachel, I...

  Rachel : You shut! I'm beginning to believe that's just the way you think about a wife. Both of you. Someone to be bought or sold. Someone to cook for you and do your chores and flatter your manhood every now and then.

  [Disgustedly] 

  Rachel : Manhood. Just look at you. I'm going back to the stockade.

• Jim : Rachel, I'm askin' that you marry me. Just as simple as that except for separatin' you and Big Davey. He never appreciated you. I ain't the catch of the river but I ain't got so much mule-headed vanity I can't admit I'm in love and come right out and do somethin' about it.