The Way West (1967)

Richard Widmark: Lije Evans

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Mercy flirts silently with Brownie] 

  Lije Evans : Best not be lookin', Brownie.

  Brownie Evans : I ain't lookin'... as hard as I can.

• Lije Evans : Them pretty peach trees are sure a long way from Georgia.

  Mr. McBee : Yep, but I expect to plant 'em where the ground is forty feet deep, black as charcoal and soft as a woman.

  Lije Evans : Now, whereabouts would that be? Heaven?

  Mrs. McBee : Oregon, Mister! Ain't ya heard?

• [the wagon train is surrounded by Indians] 

  Dick Summers : He doesn't like what you're giving him.

  Sen. William J. Tadlock : What does he want?

  Dick Summers : Whiskey.

  Sen. William J. Tadlock : Whiskey?

  Lije Evans : Get 'em liquored up and maybe we could sneak off.

  Dick Summers : You got a choice: you could give it to 'em or they'll take it. I agree that the first one might be a little dangerous, but the second one could prove fatal.

• Lije Evans : I guess we'll have to fight, Dick.

  Dick Summers : Well, all right, but some of us are gonna have to settle for a piece of ground a little short of Oregon.

• Rebecca 'Becky' Evans : Lije, Lije, stay home this time!

  Lije Evans : I wish I could, but I can't.

  Rebecca 'Becky' Evans : Why?

  Lije Evans : I don't know why. It's just that I got to go where I've not been. And where I can say, "This far I've come, I can't go no further. Do you understand that?

• Lije Evans : You know, for a smart man you ain't got a lick of sense! Not a speck!