Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
William Holden: Big Davey
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Quotes
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Big Davey : I reckon I'll get me a drink of water. Hard liquor leaves you thirsty.
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Big Davey : [to Davey] A man goes bad if he can't have bread with his meals and a stitched garment on his back.
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Davey : I wonder what she'll be like.
Big Davey : Who?
Davey : Your new wife. Could be most anybody, I reckon. Big and fat like Mrs. Rictor. Or a scrawny old bag of bones like some.
Big Davey : Yeah.
Davey : I sure hope she don't whistle when she breathes or she's fat like Mrs. Rictor.
Big Davey : Davey, you chatter like a chipmunk.
Davey : We gotta take whoever we can get to take ya, Pa.
[Big Davey looks bewildered]
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Davey : [after Rachel tells Davey to go sleep by his pa] Pa...
Big Davey : Get, you ungrateful whelp.
Davey : She ain't so bad, Pa.
Big Davey : Just like a hound dog, take up with the first one to feed you.
Davey : She told me to come back. She allowed you'd be lonely.
Big Davey : Well, what's she doin' to make a man less lonely? I reckon we'll get somebody else to do our chores.
[Rachel hears this, and rolls her eyes]
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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.
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Big Davey : It's like giving the boy readin' and writin' and arithmetic, saying grace before meals. It's, well, keeping up appearances, no matter how deep you get in the wilderness.
Rachel : I understand. Is that all?
Big Davey : [as Rachel holds a heavy bucket] I reckon you'll have trouble with your hands at first. And it ain't fittin' that you're so frail, you oughta fill out a little.
Rachel : I'll see to it, Mr. Harvey.
Big Davey : Sure got a mess o' hair.
