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.

• 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.