The Charge at Feather River
1953
Pvt. Smiley: When a man is forced by bitter circumstances to drink water, you might have the common decency to turn the other way.
Pvt. Connors: Say, is this really a repeater? Quartermaster Sergeant: A repeater? Son, you can load this on Sunday and shoot it all week.
Miles Archer: I don't get it. Indians don't like to fight at night. Grover Johnson, Artist: Why? Miles Archer: Because if they get killed in the dark it'll always be dark in their happy hunting grounds.
Grover Johnson, Artist: Well, if they had squaws with them, they would hardly be on the warpath, would they? Miles Archer: Anybody who tells you he can figure Indians - he's lyin'!
Miles Archer: They'll charge again as soon as they pick a new chief.
Pvt. Cullen: All the women west of the Mississippi and we got to wind up with a war chief's bride!
Pvt. Ryan: I was shot at by the whole Confederate army... you think I'm scared of one husband?
Pvt. Cullen: Well, sir, when I get drunk I forget what I do and I steal. Miles Archer: Uh-huh. Pvt. Cullen: And when I steal, I want to forget what I did so I get drunk. Miles Archer: I just get drunk
Pvt. Wilhelm: Yeah; I'll just fill my pipe! (gets shot by an arrow in the leg) Pvt. Wilhelm: AAH!