Gary Cooper credited as playing...
Major Thomas Thorn
- Major Thomas Thorn: Did you ever see the Medal of Honor?
- Private Renziehausen: No, Sir.
- Major Thomas Thorn: It's the most beautiful decoration of all, as it should be. I'd trade an ear for one any time, two in fact.
- Private Renziehausen: Excuse me, Sir, but I'd rather have the ear.
- Adelaide Geary: Heroes? Saints living in the desert? My God, they tried to rape me! And blackmail you! It's a wonder they haven't shot you already! No, Thorne, they're only men - and damned poor specimens at that!
- Major Thomas Thorn: I have less right than any man on earth to judge them.
- Adelaide Geary: Or to judge yourself either.
- Major Thomas Thorn: [pauses] You may be right, what you say. They're human beings. But they're more than that. They have one thing in them that is a miracle and a mystery. It redeems them. They don't know what it is themselves, but they have it. I have to save it.
- Adelaide Geary: You really believe this?
- [he nods]
- Adelaide Geary: If you do, Thorn, if you do... you may be worth all of them.