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John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., and Dorothy Ford in 3 Godfathers (1948)

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3 Godfathers

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  • Pedro "Pete' Roca Fuerte: [dying] Hey, Bob... I just remembered what tomorrow is. Feliz Navidad.
  • [repeated line]
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: ...little Robert...
  • William Kearney: Robert William.
  • Pedro "Pete' Roca Fuerte: Robert William Pedro.
  • Posse Member #1: A lot of boys stick up stagecoaches and banks and one thing and another. But a man who would dynamite a water hole in this kind of country is downright criminal.
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: Quit talkin' Mex in front of the infant!
  • [as Buck and the deputies are chasing the three outlaws, Buck shoots the outlaws' water bag. He then stops chasing them]
  • Deputy: Gosh, Marshal, you missed 'em.
  • Perley 'Buck' Sweet: They ain't payin' me to kill folks. Them Texas boys are gonna be mighty thirsty before they get to water.
  • Judge: [during sentencing] Robert Marmaduke Hightower...
  • Perley 'Buck' Sweet: Marmaduke? Haw, haw...
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: Perley!
  • [crowd laughs]
  • [Buck has just donned his vest, revealing his sheriff's badge]
  • Perley 'Buck' Sweet: I'll be seeing you boys... prob'ly.
  • Miss Florie: Good bye and good luck boy. Year in jail do ya' a lotta good!
  • Perley 'Buck' Sweet: Turn around, Texas. Turn around and draw.
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: Well, Perlie, you old hayshaker... looks like you got me...
  • [faints]
  • Pedro "Pete' Roca Fuerte: Well, that's the last of the gringo-head cactus.
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: Cut out the Mex lingo around the kid, will ya, Pete? First thing you know, he'll be talkin' it. We gotta raise him with good ol' American habla, like his mom.
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: If I had a sick polecat, I wouldn't send for that Doc Meechum.
  • William Kearney, Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: Canned milk.
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: That thick stuff ain't fit to squirt in coffee. She wasn't figurin' to feed him coffee, was she?
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: I'm sorry I called you a chili-dippin' horse thief back there.
  • Pedro "Pete' Roca Fuerte: It's all right.
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: Why didn't somebody stop me before I promised that woman.
  • Judge: Court's closed. Bar's open. Double bourbon, bartender, if you please.
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: You can throw the book at me, Judge. I ain't gonna do her. I ain't breakin' my promise to a dyin' woman.
  • Jury Foreman: We find the prisoner guilty under the law, but with exterminatin' circumstances.
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower: This godson of ours is starting life slippery enough without greasin' him.

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