The World Changes (1933)

Paul Muni: Orin Nordholm Jr.

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• Orin Nordholm Jr. : Ice boxes on wheels!... Ice boxes on wheels!... Ice boxes on wheels!

• Orin Nordholm Jr. : [addressing the banker, who's turned him down for an important business loan]  If I only had a heart like yours, Patton...

  Mr. Patten : Hmm?

  Orin Nordholm Jr. : I'd use it to freeze meat with.

• Buffalo Bill Cody : You heard right, mister. They're drownin' in beef down in Texas. I've seen a million head roamin' about wild - yours for the takin'.

  Orin Nordholm Jr. : Well, why don't they drive 'em up north, and sell 'em?

  Buffalo Bill Cody : 'Cause they got better sense, that's why.

  Orin Nordholm Jr. : Well, they could drive 'em up over the Texas Trail, or the Chisholm Trail, on through to the new railroad at Sioux City or Abilene.

  Buffalo Bill Cody : Ha ha, it ain't quite that easy, son. I've been up and down that trail, and there's 2,000 miles of bad country. It's all a man can do to get through himself, without draggin' a herd of steers after him, ha ha.

  Orin Nordholm Jr. : Still, a man could make himself a heap of money if he could do it...

  Buffalo Bill Cody : Now, mind you, I ain't sayin' it can't be done. But drivin' steers ain't like drivin' cows to pasture. Texas longhorns are ornery critters!

  Orin Nordholm Sr. : Well, only a fool'd try it.

  Orin Nordholm Jr. : Can't never tell. That's what you said folks called you when you left for Dakota 20 years ago.

  Orin Nordholm Sr. : Hmm, maybe they did, son, but that was different.

  Orin Nordholm Jr. : Not to my way of thinkin'.

  Anna Nordholm : Yes, that was different, Orin. We come out here to get land, and build a home, for us. For you and your children after you where, God willing, we could all live... with no selfish seekin' after money.

  Buffalo Bill Cody : Ha ha, your ma's got you there, son!

• Orin Nordholm Jr. : [Concerned about his granddaughter's upcoming marriage to a British baronet]  You've been browbeaten by your wife into accepting a fool and his title! Richard, if the name Nordholm still means something to you, don't do it.

  Jennifer Clinton Nordholm : Mr. Nordholm, if you have honored us with a visit, for the purpose of interfering with our affairs, I should thank you not to...

  Richard Nordholm : [cutting her off]  Jennifer, please!

  Orin Nordholm Jr. : Richard, I've made it possible for you to do everything, and be everything your mother wanted. I've paid for all your mistakes. We've made a mess of our own lives. Must we drag the children down with us?

  Jennifer Clinton Nordholm : I should think, Mr. Nordholm, having driven your own wife insane, you would stop meddling in affairs you know nothing about!

  Orin Nordholm Jr. : [Looking pained, saying nothing, turns and slowly walks out the door]