Yancy Cravat: Louie Heffner, as coroner do your official duty and remove the body.

Louie Heffner: Okay, Yancy. It was self-defense and justifiable homicide. This town needs a Boot Hill and I'll start it with this burial.

Yancy Cravat: Fellow citizens! Under the circumstances, we will forego the sermon and conclude this service with a brief word of prayer.
Sol Levy: They will always talk about Yancy. He's gonna be part of the history of the great Southwest. It's men like him that build the world. The rest of them, like me... why, we just come along and live in it.
Sabra Cravat: Did you have to kill him?

Yancy Cravat: No, I could have let him kill me.
Sabra Cravat: Do you feel nervous about your sermon, dear?

Yancy Cravat: I'd rather plead to a Texas jury than preach to this gang.
Yancy Cravat: Wife and mother, stainless woman, hide me... hide me in your love.
Yancy Cravat: I'll show them first crack that the Oklahoma Wigwam prints all the news all the time - knowing no law except the law of God and the government of the United States. Say, that's a pretty good slogan! Top of the page - just ahead of the editorial column!
Mrs. Tracy Wyatt: One of my ancestors was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Sol Levy: That's all right. A relative of mine, a fellow named Moses, wrote the Ten Commandments.
[caption at the beginning of the film]

Caption: In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma Lands for white settlement... 2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming across the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd.
Yancy Cravat: Sugar, if we all took root and squatted, there would never be any new country.
Yancy Cravat: Why, it'll be all over the southwest that Yancy Cravat was hiding behind a woman's petticoat!

Sabra Cravat: But you didn't! They can't say so! You shot him there nicely in the ear, darling.

Yancy Cravat: Well, you shouldn't interfere when men are having a little friendly shootin'.
Yancy Cravat: Why, we've had enough of this Wichita. We're goin' out to a brand new two-fisted, rip snortin' country full of Indians, rattlesnakes, gun toters and desperados. Whoopee!
Yancy Cravat: There's loyalty, Sabra, that money can't buy.
Yancy Cravat: The second button on his coat is about the spot of his wishbone. Maybe a couple inches higher.
Yancy Cravat: Dixie Lees have been stoned in the market place for 2,000 years. You've got to drive the devil out first.
Yancy Cravat: Never is a long time.
Yancy Cravat: Fellow citizens:, I have been called upon to conduct this opening meeting of the Osage First Methodist Episcopalian Lutheran Presbyterian Congregational Baptist Catholic Unitarian Hebrew Church.

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Trevion 2022-04-20 09:02:25

Full English subtitles, only understand 80%. The hero of the story is indeed the embodiment of the hero. Tall and handsome, good marksmanship, courageous and resourceful, and eloquent, he is a lawyer and the editor-in-chief of a newspaper. Loving your wife, the most important point is that you advocate freedom and have an adventurous spirit in your bones. You have to go out and wander every few years, and you can't stay in the same place for more than five years. As a governor, he saved the people. I once defended a prostitute, respecting human rights, not discriminating, and being equal. Married a good wife, and kept the newspaper business in good order while he was away. In the end, he sacrificed heroically to save people. Before the sacrifice, his wife realized that he had been wandering away and never returned home. What is the reason for a hero to wander on his own without his ambitions? Some netizens said that it was for face, some said that the ending was unreal, and some said that it was the director's magic, and the open ending made people guess. I personally think it is acceptable, a restless wandering heart is destined to be lonely forever. He doesn't care about the eldest children and grandchildren, what he cares about is the realization of his ideals, such as the male protagonist's struggle for the rights of the Indians
Kirk 2022-04-22 07:01:49

The end of the first Western movie that was crowned Oscar (the next one is "Dances with Wolves" after 60 years) makes the image of the male protagonist even more glorious, a great and kind adventurer.