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Gary Cooper and Mari Aldon in Distant Drums (1951)

Gary Cooper: Capt. Quincy Wyatt

Distant Drums

Gary Cooper credited as playing...

Capt. Quincy Wyatt

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Quotes9

  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: You just didn't didn't come over here to pass the time of day. W-what's troublin' your mind?
  • Judy Beckett: Well, since you ask, I'm a little curious to know if I'm gonna get out of here alive.
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: Why should you know more than anyone else?
  • Judy Beckett: Because I've got a lot to do. I've made too many plans for too long a time to have them all end up in a swamp.
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: Well, all I can tell you to ease your mind is that I don't intend to commit suicide.
  • Lt. Richard Tufts: [Referring to Judy] I take her to be a lady of quality.
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: Why? Because she has a servant?
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: An interesting thing about the way the Seminoles bury their warriors. The sit 'em up and put war paint on 'em, set a bowl of fresh food alongside of 'em and then stick their favorite weapon in their hands and then they cover 'em up. With a great chief like that over yonder, they throw in the first newborn child to be born after he died.
  • Lt. Richard Tufts: Why do they do a thing like that for?
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: Well, they believe when a man dies, his spirit leaves the body and enters that of the first newborn. And in regarding a chief that high like that, they don't want the spirit to be passed on down to somebody that ain't fit to carry it.
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: They still don't like fightin' at night. But they'll come a hootin' and a hollerin' at dawn!
  • Monk: It makes me fonder than ever of moonshine.
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: You know, you can't go through life trying to get even. You know, you can't carry a grudge forever.
  • [a group of soldiers are marching through a man-eating Alligator infested swamp in the Everglades]
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: [sees alligators in the water] GATORS! GATORS!
  • Soldier: [gets attacked, dragged under the water and eaten by an Alligator] AAH!
  • Judy Beckett: [looks back and sees the soldier being eaten by the hungry alligators] AH!
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: what about you, what name do you answer to?
  • Pvt. Jessup: Private Jessup, sir.
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: no smoking, you want tobacco then chew it!
  • Capt. Quincy Wyatt: at night, you sleep like a king.
  • Judy Beckett: all dirty and cold on the ground.

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