Rebel in Town (1956)

J. Carrol Naish: Bedloe Mason

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• Bedloe Mason : It's bad enough we have to live like bandits. We don't have to act like 'em.

• Bedloe Mason : [to his son, Gray]  How many times I've asked myself how was it we Masons wound up on the run. Stealing to live. No kind of roof, except God's own stars? No answer. And how was it that God had saw fit to give me four fine sons and then made them different as twilight to noon? Still no answer. Therefore, whatever His idea was when He made Wesley draw that gun and shoot that child, that's His business. But He just giveth and taketh away.

• Bedloe Mason : The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Let it go at that, no questions asked.

  Gray Mason : Sounds real easy when you put it like that.

  Bedloe Mason : It's not easy, son, it's just easier. A man could grow crazy if he had to have reasons for everything that happens.

• Bedloe Mason : [to John]  What the sons of some men do to the sons of others. There's the tragedy of the world.