James Stacy: Perry Hutchins

Quotes 

• Perry Hutchins : I'm a pure greenhorn.

  Bud Chapel : Well, we were all greenhorns once. That's right, I was no different than you. But them three apple knocker farmboys who came out with me from Michigan, they're dead. You know why? 'Cause they were stupid. 'Cause their daddies didn't cane no sense into them the way my daddy caned it into me. But I'm alive because of it. 'Cause I learned my lesson. Sins of the past! Now, big boy from the cornfield, you're gonna learn just the way I learned.

• Clayt Monroe : That gold belongs to Mae!

  Kathy Monroe : What happened to you, Perry? You're not a thief. How can you think that way?

  Perry Hutchins : 'Cause that's how everyone thinks out here! It's a me-first world, full of cheats, crooks, and liars! And brother, if you can't see that, you must have your heads in a gunnysack!

  Kathy Monroe : You've changed.

  Perry Hutchins : You bet I have. I ain't that pumpkin-head farm boy that smiled at everybody and marched in the Fourth of July parade. No, sir, this trip out here taught me dog eat dog. And that gold. It's gonna get me back to Illinois. I've struck it rich. I'll buy me a tall hat and a brocade vest, and I'll light my cigars with greenbacks. You can eat beans the rest of your life if you want. Not me.