Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Will Geer: Bear Claw

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Quotes 

• Jeremiah Johnson : Y'ever get lonesome?

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Fer what?

  Jeremiah Johnson : Woman?

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Full time night woman? I never could find no tracks on a woman's heart. I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads. I lodge-poled her at Deadwood Creek, and traded her for a Hawken gun. But don't get me wrong; I loves the womens, I surely do. But I swear, a woman's breast is the hardest rock that the Almighty ever made on this earth, and I can find no sign on it.

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : You have done well to keep so much hair, when so many's after it. I hope... you will fare well.

  [rides off] 

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : You're the same dumb pilgrim that I been hearin' for twenty days, and smellin' for three!

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : [Bear Claw is speaking to Paints His Shirt Red in Crow]  You two know each other?

  Jeremiah Johnson : I seen him once.

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : [Paints His Shirt Red continues in Crow, nodding toward Jeremiah]  He says you fish poorly.

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : You've come far pilgrim.

  Jeremiah Johnson : Feels like far.

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Were it worth the trouble?

  Jeremiah Johnson : [pause, then]  Huh? What trouble?

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : I am Bear Claw Chris Lapp; bloodkin to the grizzer that bit Jim Bridger's ass! YOU are molesting my hunt!

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Are you sure you can skin grizz?

  Jeremiah Johnson : Just as fast as you can catch' em.

  [Bear Claw runs into and through the cabin with a huge grizzly bear close behind and jumps out the back window] 

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : [as the fight rages inside the cabin]  Skin that one, pilgrim, and I'll get you another!

  [Shot sounds from inside the cabin] 

• Jeremiah Johnson : [Jeremiah and Bear Claw hunt elk]  Wind's right, but he'll just run soon as we step out of these trees.

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Trick to it. Walk out on this side of your horse.

  Jeremiah Johnson : What if he sees our feet?

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Elk don't know how many feet a horse has!

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : [Jeremiah has a small game animal roasting over a fire]  What's on the spit?

  Jeremiah Johnson : Grown particular?

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : [laughs]  Not the feedin'... just the company I keep.

• Jeremiah Johnson : Who are they?

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Crow, most likely. This is their hunting ground, if they catch us, they'll steal our horses

  [an arrow flies by Bear Claw's head and sticks in a tree] 

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Yep, Crow. Fella by the name of Paints-his-Shirt-Red. That's his sign.

• [Bear Claw is talking to Paints-his-Shirt in Crow] 

  Jeremiah Johnson : You understand what he's sayin'?

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Paints-His-Shirt speaks English, he just does this to aggravate me.

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Watch your top knot.

  Jeremiah Johnson : Yep, watch your'n.

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : [after Jeremiah's "hot-coal" bed sets fire to his blankets, Bear Claw looks up from his own bed]  Didn't put enough dirt down. Saw it right off.

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : [Seeing the striped military trousers Jeremiah's wearing]  Missed another war down there, hmm?

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : You know how to skin griz?

  Jeremiah Johnson : I can skin most anything.

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : You sure are cocky, for a starvin' pilgrim.

• Bear Claw Chris Lapp : You've learned well, pilgrim. You'll go far - provided you ain't burnt alive, or scalped.

  Jeremiah Johnson : I will do my best.

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : You can cut wood and leave it up on the "Judith." The riverboat captains will leave you gold, if you put out a pouch. Good thing to know, when times gits hard.

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Watch your topknot.

  Jeremiah Johnson : Yep. Watch your'n.

• [Bear Claw has found Jeremiah half starved and freezing] 

  Bear Claw Chris Lapp : Heh, heh, heh. How come you ain't been scalped?