Rita Hayworth credited as playing...
Adelaide Geary
- Adelaide Geary: One act of cowardice doesn't make a man a coward forever, just as one act of bravery doesn't make a man a hero forever.
- 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.