The Tall Texan (1953)
Lee J. Cobb: Capt. Theodore Bess
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Capt. Theodore Bess : Whatever I do I never apologize for it, do you?
Laura Thompson : No.
Capt. Theodore Bess : Well, I do now... with reservations.
Laura Thompson : Such as?
Capt. Theodore Bess : O, no excuses for discoverin' you're a real woman... my kind... never met one before.
Laura Thompson : Next I'll remind you of your mother.
Capt. Theodore Bess : You couldn't. I was raised in a foundling home.
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Sheriff Chadborune : Pioneering in this country can be awful rough.
Jerome 'Jerry' Niblett : Men go where there's money to be made.
Capt. Theodore Bess : And women?
Laura Thompson : They go with the men who make it... or try.