Old Hickory (1939)

Victor Kilian: Tim

Quotes 

• Andrew Jackson : [during the battle against the British redcoats]  Good shot!

  French Gunner : Merci, merci!

  Andrew Jackson : By heavens, you're the dirtiest man I ever saw.

  French Gunner : Merci, mon général! Merci beaucoup!

  Andrew Jackson : [walking over to Tim]  How goes it, Tim, ya old muskrat?

  Tim : Not bad, Andy!

  Andrew Jackson : Good shootin'!

  Tim : We stopped them for good this time, Andy! They're runnin' for their ships!

  Jean Lafitte : [approaching Jackson]  I hope we've been of service, mon général.

  Andrew Jackson : They'll never hang you as an American, Jean Lafitte; you've been a hero of New Orleans.

  [Lafitte smiles proudly and Jackson continues to rouse the rest of the men] 

  Andrew Jackson : Over and after 'em, ya backwood wildcats!

• Narrator : Andrew Jackson was the first President sprung from the common people and the White House was never closed to the many he called his friends.

  Tim : I just wanted to be sure you got in the White House, Andy; now I'm movin' on.

  Andrew Jackson : Where to, Tim?

  Tim : Out west: Illinois. It's gettin' too crowded around these parts.

  Andrew Jackson : By crackey, Tim, I've got to give you somethin' to remember me by.

  Tim : Thank you, Andy. Give me that pipe.

  Andrew Jackson : Oh, not this old pipe; I'll get ya a new one.

  Tim : If ya don't mind, I'd rather have the one smoked by Old Hickory hiself.

  Andrew Jackson : Oh, why sure, Tim.

  [happily hands him his pipe] 

  Tim : We're dependin' on you, Andy. Ya ain't gonna let none of these smart politicians fool ya.

• [last lines] 

  Narrator : Even the farthest outposts of the nation rejoiced in the news of a Union preserved. On the western plains, a frontier expedition made it's slow way homewards from the Indian Wars. A young village lawyer, serving as Captain of Militia, was reading over the mail that had just come in.

  Tim : What are ya readin', Captain?

  Capt. Abraham Lincoln : President's proclamation to South Carolina.

  Tim : Andy Jackson's proclamation, eh?

  Capt. Abraham Lincoln : Yeah. You knew him pretty well, didn't you, Tim?

  Tim : Andy? Sure. He give me this pipe. What does Andy say in his proclamation?

  Capt. Abraham Lincoln : [reading from the proclamation]  'The Constitution forms a government, not a league. To say that any state may, at pleasure, secede from the Union is to say the United States is not a nation.' Tim, if ever - in my small way - I'm called to serve the Union, I'll shape my course by those words.

  Tim : You won't go wrong, Abe Lincoln, if ya follow in the footsteps of Old Hickory.

  [the End]