The Professionals (1966)

Lee Marvin: Fardan

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• [last lines] 

  J.W. Grant : You bastard.

  Rico : Yes, Sir. In my case an accident of birth. But you, Sir, you're a self-made man.

• Rico : So what else is on your mind besides hundred-proof women, 'n' ninety-proof whiskey, 'n' fourteen-carat gold?

  Bill Dolworth : Amigo, you just wrote my epitaph!

• Bill Dolworth : Do they know who took the woman?

  Rico : Raza.

  Bill Dolworth : Our Raza? A kidnapper?

  Rico : Grant's got the ransom note to prove it.

  Bill Dolworth : Well I'll be damned.

  Rico : Most of us are.

• Bill Dolworth : $100,000 for a wife? She must be a lot of woman!

  Rico : Certain women have a way of changing boys into men and some men back into boys.

• J.W. Grant : Your hair was darker then.

  Rico : My heart was lighter then.

• Hans Ehrengard : Nine more of their horses are still left. You gonna shoot them, too?

  Rico : I guess we'll have to. We can't spare the food and water.

  Hans Ehrengard : We could cut them loose.

  [Dolworth laughs] 

  Hans Ehrengard : What's so funny?

  Bill Dolworth : People. We just killed ten men, nobody bats an eye. But when it comes to one of God's most stupid animals...

  Hans Ehrengard : But harmless.

  Bill Dolworth : Nothing's harmless in this desert unless it's dead.

• Jake Sharp : A cloud o' dust! Could be Mister Raza.

  Hans Ehrengard : Could be most anything. Even a whirling dervish.

  Rico : That, gentlemen, is the whirlingest dervish of them all.

• Bill Dolworth : The cemetery of nameless men. We buried some fine friends there.

  Rico : And some fine enemies.

  Bill Dolworth : That was one hell of a fine battle. Out-numbered and out-gunned and still we held that pass.

  Rico : Yeah, but who cares now... or even remembers?

• Bill Dolworth : What's the proposition?

  Rico : You won't lose your pants. Your life maybe but, what's that?

  Bill Dolworth : Hardly anything at all.

• Rico : You're gonna have to get over this nasty habit of always losing your pants. It's not dignified.

  Bill Dolworth : It's drafty, too.

• Rico : What's that supposed to mean?

  Bill Dolworth : Rico, buddy. This will come as a shock to both of us. I'm a born sucker for love.

  Rico : That bullet must've knocked some of your brains out.

  Bill Dolworth : Or let some in.

  Rico : Well what happened back there? What changed your mind?

  Bill Dolworth : I found out what makes a woman worth a hundred thousand dollars.

• Rico : [to a badly sputtering Model T]  Yeah, me too, Lizzy.

• Bill Dolworth : Rico, buddy. I don't deserve you.

  Rico : I agree. I can understand you getting in a crap game and losing $700 you didn't have, but how'd you lose your pants?

  Bill Dolworth : In a ladies bedroom, trying to raise the cash. Almost had it made, too. Do you realize that people are the only animals that make love face to face?

• Rico : It takes getting used to.

  Hans Ehrengard : Broiling by day. Freezing by night. Alkali dust choking every hole in your body. How in the name of God does anybody live here long enough to get used to it.

  Rico : Men tempered like steel. Tough breed. Men who learn how to endure.

  Hans Ehrengard : Like you and Dolworth.

  Rico : Oh, no. Men like Raza.

• Rico : Interesting pass.

  Bill Dolworth : It's a beaut. You should see it from upside down.

• Rico : Before you blow a gasket, think you can blow the water tower?

  Bill Dolworth : How do you want it?

  Rico : Like it was hit by a French 75. Blow it to hell and gone.

• Rico : What we really need is an equalizer.

  J.W. Grant : Name it.

  Rico : A dynamiter with a delicate touch to blow out a candle without denting the candleholder.

• Rico : [to Mrs. Grant]  You better change before we start back. It'll be a long ride on your bare bottom.

• Maria Grant : Loyalty such as yours, that comes only from devotion to a cause. That same fire burns in Raza. That is why you could not see him murdered.

  Rico : He is a thief, trying to steal $100,000. And you are a whore cheating on your husband.

  Maria Grant : My husband stole millions from this land! Our land. If we can keep the revolution alive, with that money, for even one more day, then I'll steal and cheat - and *whore* - and anything else that must be done.

• Bill Dolworth : What's the proposition?

  Rico : You won't lose your pants. Your life maybe... but what's that?

• Rico : Win or lose, here and now. Final neck like this, one of us might be able to hold 'em off long enough.

  Bill Dolworth : Yeah, one of us.

  Rico : If he plays it cool. Hit and run, 'n' stall and retreat.

• Bill Dolworth : Amigo, three days' ride from here he passes another graveyard. With one big difference. Instead of dead heroes, they buried gold bullion. Two million dollars in Spanish gold. Melted down into big, beautiful bars. And waiting for us with open arms. And we don't have to fight Raza to get it.

  Rico : That couldn't be the reason you took this job.

  Bill Dolworth : Can you think of a better reason?

  Rico : Our word. We gave our word to bring the woman back.

  Bill Dolworth : My word to Grant ain't worth a plugged nickel.

  Rico : You gave your word to me.

• Rico : We have it set in our minds that the contract is not complete until Mrs. Grant is delivered safe and sound.

  J.W. Grant : The code of the profession, huh?

  Rico : Something like that.

• Rico : Ehrengard needs help. That's Jake's job. The woman has to be watched. That's your job. Buying the time we need is my job.

  Bill Dolworth : Whoa, amigo. Slow down. Let's keep this thing strictly professional. Your job is to make good our contract. To deliver the goods. All the way. *That's* your job.