The Kentuckian (1955)

Donald MacDonald: Little Eli Wakefield

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• [first lines] 

  Little Eli Wakefield : How long now, Pa? How many more days?

  Big Eli Wakefield : We ain't much more than started!

• Little Eli Wakefield : But won't you tell me something more about Texas?

  Big Eli Wakefield : Well, it's a place for the likes of us. No people there much, no neighbors to crowd ya, only wild game to see and to shoot at. And when you take a breathe, it's got a clean taste to it, like nobody ain't never used it before.

• Big Eli Wakefield : I'm trying to be a right father to you. I'm trying to think what kind of man you'll grow up to be.

  Little Eli Wakefield : What kind of man are you coming to be? That's the worst of all!