Northwest Passage
1940
(repeated line) Maj. Robert Rogers: I'll see you at sundown, Harvard.
Hunk Marriner: (mumbles) Better off in jail.
Langdon Towne: What did he have in the sack? Maj. Robert Rogers: (pause) The head of an Abenaki indian.
Konkapot: (holding stomach) Konkapot... sick... Indian! Konkapot... so... so... sick!
Maj. Robert Rogers: Rejoin your company, Marriner. Hunk Marriner: Langdon's wounded! (pause) I'm not leaving him! Maj. Robert Rogers: (shouts) Another word out of you and I'll have you shot! Now rejoin your company! Hunk Marriner: (mumbles) Yes, sir.
Maj. Robert Rogers: (trying on indian moccasins) Don't any of these red hellions have man-sized feet?
Lt Crofton: (giving away his share of parched corn) If you fellows were smart, you wouldn't have to eat corn! (scurries away laughing) Langdon Towne: (limps into camp on a crutch) Food? Where's the food? Hunk Marriner: Langdon! (runs towards him) You're just in time for a little corn with the rest of us roosters!
Cap Huff: (watching the column of rangers march past) Ain't you goin'? Hunk Marriner: (looks up in disbelief) No... I've been!
Elizabeth Browne: (standing alongside Langdon Towne as Major Robert Rogers and his rangers march into the distance) Is there, Langdon? Is there a Northwest Passage? Langdon Towne: Who knows. (pause) It's every man's dream to find a short-route to his heart's desire. If the Major dreams long enough, he'll find it. Elizabeth Browne: Will we hear from him? Langdon Towne: Hear from him? (pause) Everytime we look across the river we'll hear his voice calling us through the wind. He'll be within us, Elizabeth - wherever we are or he may be - for that man will never die.
Jesse Beacham: (having just shot an Abenaki Indian) Prettiest shot I've ever made!
Hunk Marriner: (upset) I'd hate to be a man who's always as right as you are. Maj. Robert Rogers: I'm not a man now, Sergeant. I'm a soldier and commander. (pause) If you ever meet me when I'm just a man, you may have to use a little charity. Hunk Marriner: (shocked) Yes, sir. (pause) I'm sorry, sir.