The Searchers (1956)

Vera Miles: Laurie Jorgensen

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• Laurie Jorgensen : [Martin is preparing to join a raid against the Indians and rescue Debbie]  You're not goin', not this time.

  Martin : Are you crazy?

  Laurie Jorgensen : It's too late. She's a woman grown now.

  Martin : But I gotta go, Laurie, I gotta fetch her home.

  Laurie Jorgensen : Fetch what home? The leavings of a Comanche buck, sold time and again to the highest bidder, with savage brats of her own?

  Martin : Laurie, shut your mouth.

  Laurie Jorgensen : Do you know what Ethan will do if he has a chance? He'll put a bullet in her brain.

  [pause] 

  Laurie Jorgensen : I tell you, Martha would want him to.

  Martin : Only if I'm dead.

• Martin : You know, Laurie, I was just thinking that maybe it's about time you and me started going steady, huh?

  Laurie Jorgensen : Why, Martin Pawley, you and me been going steady since we was three years old!

  Martin : We have?

  Laurie Jorgensen : 'Bout time you found out about it.

• Laurie Jorgensen : Ethan rode on an hour ago. Now Martin I don't know what you can do about finding Debbie that he can't. He'll find her now, Martin. Honest he will.

  Martin : That's what I'm afraid Of Laurie, him finding her. Oh I've seen his eyes at the very word "Comanche". I've seen him take his knife and - - Never mind. He's a man that can go crazy wild and I intend to be there to stop him in case he does.

• Laurie Jorgensen : [reading a letter from Martin on his Indian wife]  "She wasn't nearly as old as you." How old does he think I am?