Saratoga Trunk (1945)

Gary Cooper: Colonel Clint Maroon

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• Clio Dulaine : Won't you come in?

  Colonel Clint Maroon : [Thinking he's been propositioned]  Hey, uh, what kind of game is this anyway?

  [She seems bewildered] 

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Now, look, Honey. I was born in Texas, but it wasn't yesterday.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : I've seen lots of women, but I've never seen a woman like you.

• McIntyre : Ah, but Colonel Maroon, this isn't the Wild West.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Worse! It's the Wild East!

• Colonel Clint Maroon : I love to hear your voice. It goes over me like oil over a blister. Womenfolks back home are mighty fine - they don't come any finer - but they kind of got screechy voices. Your voice kind of puts me in mind of a Texas sky at night - soft and perfect.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Look, I got a temper too - stronger than horseradish.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Ma'am. I hate to see anybody as plum beautiful as you riding in a moth-eaten old basket like this, let alone those two nags a- pullin' it.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Hey, you look downright wicked.

  Clio Dulaine : Not wicked, Clint. Practical.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Where i come from, women are two kinds. They're good or they're bad. What kind of a woman are you?

  Clio Dulaine : Well, on my Father's side, I'm very, very good - prim, you might say, and very respectable. On my Mother's side, I'm - how shall i say that for your tender ears? Sometimes I'm Mama, who gave everything for love. Sometimes I'm my Grandmama Vaudray, who gave everything, too; but, not for love. And sometimes I'm my Great-Grandmama Bonavie, who was an actress.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Shucks, that's it. I keep forgetting you're just a little girl dressed up in your Ma's long skirts.

  Clio Dulaine : No. No, I'm not. I'm very grown-up, and I'm going to fool the world.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : What am I doing getting hooked up with you? That's what I can't figure out. What am I doing in a house like this, la-de-daing around? Funny, the trouble you can get into just by talking to somebody on the street.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : I've seen lots of women, but i've never seen a woman like you before.

  Clio Dulaine : There isn't anyone like me, Clint.

• Angelique Buiton : How'd you like me to make you one big pie for dinner tonight?

  Colonel Clint Maroon : First rate, Mammy.

  Angelique Buiton : One thing I ask - you do not call me that.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : What?

  Angelique Buiton : That - Mammy. It's one thing i hate - out of the slave days. Me, I'm Angelique Buiton!

• Colonel Clint Maroon : No-account French rat!

• Colonel Clint Maroon : When you think about us: Texas, Paris. It's downright comical.

• Clio Dulaine : How good of you, Colonel, uh...

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Maroon. Clint Maroon.

  Clio Dulaine : What a delightful name! So, American.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Texas, ma'am.

  Clio Dulaine : Texas? I should love to see Texas.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Play your cards right, ma'am, and maybe you can.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Listen, he ain't as loco as he looks. And don't raise your eyebrows when i say "ain't."

• Clio Dulaine : Are you jealous?

  Colonel Clint Maroon : You're durn tooting, i'm jealous.

  Clio Dulaine : Just have to get used to it, my darling.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Sure is comical how a woman likes to put her mark on a man with a needle. You couldn't rest nor wait till you had me crawling with all those fancy initials on my shirts and handkerchiefs. I look to wake up some day and find a big "c" branded on my rump.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : You set out to catch yourself a millionaire. You got him roped and tied. Now all you got to do is cinch the saddle down on him.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Sure was different in New Orleans. Why can't it be like that here? You were mighty sweet those days. Ornery, but mighty sweet.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : They say everything here is lickin' good.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : What kind of language is that?

  Clio Dulaine : Gumbo, cheri. New Orleans French flavored with African.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : What does that say in American?

  Clio Dulaine : [singing]  If you was a bird, Suzette, And i was a gun, marvelette, i will shoot you down, sure, i will shoot you dead, Oh, my dear mahogany jewel, I lov'd you, I lov'd you like a pig love the mud, And i will shoot you dead...

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Have you got any ketchup?

• Clio Dulaine : Poor Clint, you must make them pay.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : What in Sam Hill do you think i'm after doing? I promised myself when i grew up, if i ever met up with them...

  Clio Dulaine : Then you should.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : And i will. I'd as soon shoot them down as I would a cottonmouth.

  Clio Dulaine : You see, cheri, we are two of a kind.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Railroad men, they call themselves. Highbindin' crooks. They stole Pa's land from him like he was a hick at a country circus. Almost broke his heart. Said it wasn't like America. We got ideas about America down there.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Well, i'll mosey along and be out in two shakes.

• Clio Dulaine : We cannot get used to each other, cheri. Not too much. That would be bad, n'est-ce pas?

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Oh, very bad. Ness pop.

• Clio Dulaine : Who is he?

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Well, he's boss of the upstate railroad crowd. Likely, you were too busy making goo-goo eyes when you come in to notice him. Always sitting there on the piazza hiding behind a couple of bodyguards. Don't let his size fool you. He's big poison.

  Clio Dulaine : Is he rich? Huh? Rub my foot, cheri.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Couple of hundred million. Maybe more.

  Clio Dulaine : Is he married?

  Colonel Clint Maroon : No, honey. No. I mean, no for you.

  Clio Dulaine : Well, one never knows.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : He was brought up prim and proper. He was brought up by a woman who was stronger and more possessive than he - his mother.

  Clio Dulaine : I'll be stronger and more possessive than she. And cleverer. You'll see, cheri.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Women are the most unmoral people there are.

  Clio Dulaine : Cheri, darling, darling.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Just to know you've had my name on your lips gives me pleasure.

• Clio Dulaine : Take a little sip, cheri. Just a little sip. It's heavenly.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Peaches in champagne? That's no drink for a man.

• Angelique Buiton : She sleep perhaps one day, perhaps two or three. But when she wake up, zumba! Look out!

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Look out? What can she do she hasn't done already?

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Jumping catfish! You see what you do to me? I don't know whether i'm going or coming.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : I can be nagged by women, i can be fooled by women, i can be coaxed by women, but no woman's going to run me. You just pin back those pretty ears of yours and take heed of what i'm saying.

  Clio Dulaine : Cheri, i think that even when i marry someone else, i'll always love you best.

  Colonel Clint Maroon : Heaven help the man that takes up with you for life. I wouldn't be in his shoes, not for a million.

  Clio Dulaine : OH, I'm hoping he'll have much more than a million.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Even down in Texas, we know that watering stock don't only mean just giving the cows a drink.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : All that stuff - dirty politics - that ain't up my alley; but, fighting is. I've never seen one yet that wasn't won by being quicker on the draw.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : First stop, boys, hold on to your hats!

• Colonel Clint Maroon : Poor little Bart. In his place, I sure would feel cheap to think I was being married just for my money.

• Colonel Clint Maroon : I don't know what we're laughin' at, but, I haven't had as much fun in a coon's age.