Hombre

1967

Grimes: Mister, you have got a lot of hard bark on you comin' down here like this. Now, you put two holes in me and I owe you. John Russell: Two's usually enough for most. Grimes: I wouldn't try anything because that Vaquero (nods toward the Mexican behind Russell) is more than a fair hand. Did you bring the money? John Russell: Guess I brought my dirty laundry by mistake. Grimes: Let's see it. (Grimes opens the saddle bags and pulls out some old cloths as the Mexican looks on in amazement) Grimes: Now what do your suppose hell is gonna look like. John Russell: We all gotta die, it's only a matter of when.

(Grimes has just delivered an ultimatum to Mendez and the others) John Russell: Hey. I got a question. How are you planning to get back down that hill? Grimes: Now you wait a minute! I'm getting back down the same way I came up! (Begins running back down the hill. Russell shoots him as he is running) Jessie: (as Grimes crawls away after being shot) Cicero Grimes, meet John Russell.

Jessie: And we got him a marble headstone. It had his name on it, and underneath, we had them put, "In the Fullness of His Years." Is that all right with you? John Russell: I'll settle for that. I'm not on the slab. Jessie: Well, what do you figure yours is going to read? John Russell: "Shot Dead," probably. Jessie: Don't people take to you, Mr Russell? John Russell: It only takes one who doesn't.

Doris Blake: You're just saying that so we won't go down there. John Russell: They'll kill you both. That's why I'm saying it.

(Russell has just fatally shot the Mexican bandit) Mexican Bandit: I would like at least to know his name. Henry Mendez: He was called John Russell.

Henry Mendez: Hombre, which name today, which do you want? John Russell: Anything but bastard will do.

Braden: Hey, what's going on? Jessie: I'm moving you out. I want you to take your socks, your cigar stubs, your long johns, and your nickel-plated sheriff's badge, and amble back down the hall to your own room. Braden: I like it here. Jessie: Can't quite remember how you got squatter's rights in here, anyhow. Seems to me you came by one night to ask for an extra blanket and stayed a year.

Braden: I been working since I was ten years old, Jessie, cleaning spittoons at a dime a day. It's now thirty years later, and all I can see out the window here is a dirt road going nowhere. The only thing that changes the view is the spotted dog lifting his leg against the wall over there. Saturday nights, I haul out the town drunks. I get their 25-cent dinners and their rotgut liquor heaved up over the front of my one good shirt. I wear three pounds of iron strapped to my leg. That makes me fair game for any punk cowboy who's had one too many. No, Jess, I don't need a wife. I need out.

Jessie: That soldier would have helped you and you know it. John Russell: I didn't ask for any. Jessie: He didn't even have a gun. John Russell: That's his business he don't wanna carry one. Jessie: It takes a lot to light a fire under you, doesn't it. John Russell: If it's alright with you, lady, I just didn't feel like bleeding for him. And even if it isn't alright with you.

Doris Blake: I've heard a lot of stories about what the Indians do to white women. Grimes: They do the same thing to white women they do to Indian women, and they don't mind it much, red or white.

Audra Favor: I can't imagine eating a dog and not thinking anything of it. John Russell: You even been hungry, lady? Not just ready for supper. Hungry enough so that your belly swells? Audra Favor: I wouldn't care how hungry I got. I know I wouldn't eat one of those camp dogs. John Russell: You'd eat it. You'd fight for the bones, too. Audra Favor: Have you ever eaten a dog, Mr Russell? John Russell: Eaten one and lived like one. Audra Favor: Dear me.

(Grimes lights a cigar) Grimes: Smoke bother you? Audra Favor: Would you put it out if I said it did? Grimes: Oh, yeah. My momma taught me to remove my hat and my cigar in the presence of a lady. Whatever else I take off depends on how lucky I get.

John Russell: The dead are dead. You ought to bury them. Jessie: I'm sure that's good advice. Trouble is, Mr Russell, I think you feel the same way about the living.

John Russell: Glad to buy you dinner. Jessie: There's a lot of men who'll do that, Mr Russell. John Russell: Well, I'd just as soon make it breakfast.

John Russell: Hit something, Mendez, first the men, then the horses. Henry Mendez: I don't know. Just to sit here and wait to kill them? John Russell: If there was some other way, we'd do it. Henry Mendez: Maybe we can keep going and try to outrun them. John Russell: If you run, they're gonna catch you, they're gonna kill you. You believe that more than you believe anything. Henry Mendez: All right. John Russell: And try not to puke. You may have to lie in it for a long time.

John Russell: You better put down that gun. You got two ways to go, put it down or use it. Even if you tie me, you're gonna be dead.

Grimes: (after going through Favor's luggage and taking out the money) Looks like you did good and we did better. Lamar Dean: That was pretty smart, billin' the government for food for the Indians and then keepin' the money while them poor Indians starve to death. Grimes: You know, the thing is; he ought to be over here with us instead of standin' over there (laughs)

Grimes: Throw down two saddles. (to Audra) You're comin' with us. Audra Favor: No, I think I'll stay here. Grimes: You will be all right. Audra Favor: I'll be *all right* here. Grimes: One way or another, you're comin' with us.

Mexican Bandit: (Russell and Mendez have ambushed Grimes' gang) Hey, hombre! You shot me in the belly; I am not having a belly ache like this since I was a little boy! John Russell: Sorry, my aim was a little off! Mexican Bandit: Oh, so you like to pull the trigger, eh! John Russell: Stand up and I'll do it again for you! Mexican Bandit: (laughing) No, hombre. I don't think I will!

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