Eagle's Wing (1979)

Martin Sheen: Pike

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Pike : [narration]  Long before the myths began, it was primitive... unforgiving - but in that vast, limitless space, man had one ally... the horse.

• Pike : Henry? Henry, answer me! Are you spooked or somethin'?

  Henry : I've been spooked ever since I left my mother's tit. That's what keeps me from dying.

• Pike : Maybe your heathen friend got sick or somethin'.

  Henry : That wouldn't stop him riding.

  Pike : Killed then.

  Henry : He rides a god-damned horse like an eagle's wing! No ordinary man's gonna stop him.

• Pike : Any sign of him?

  Henry : Not a fart in the wind.

• Pike : I thought you traded regular with the Comanche.

  Henry : Yeah, and I walk in rattlesnake country, too. I'm just careful how I do it.

• Pike : I just want to be my own man in my own way. You can't be your own man when you're polishing someone else's boots.

• [last lines] 

  [Pike finds White Bull in his camp with Judith, his bound captive] 

  Judith : Please... help me!

  [White Bull rides out of camp on his majestic white horse. Pike, ignoring Judith's plight, takes off in pursuit, but the Indian escapes] 

  Pike : Help me... Please, help me.