Leon Ames credited as playing...
Samuel Eaton
- [Alfred is coldly welcomed home by his father]
- Sam Eaton: How was the war?
- Alfred Eaton: Okay I guess. We won it.
- Martha Eaton: I needed love whereever I could find it!
- Sam Eaton: Love? You're a pig! I can't stand the sight of you!
- Sam Eaton: Your son. Your father. Your heroes.
- Martha Eaton: I have no heroes - only some people I love. You were my hero.
- Sam Eaton: Shut up!
- Sam Eaton: Did you think you're any better than one of those sluts on River Street?
- Martha Eaton: I'm not proud of myself.
- Sam Eaton: Not proud of herself, she says.
- Sam Eaton: You want to tell me to go to the devil and take the mill with me. That's probably the only reason you came home. You've been wanting to do that all your life.
- Alfred Eaton: For all my like alll I wanted to do is to be friends with you.
- Sam Eaton: That's what you want, to be friends with me? Listen to me, young fellow, I haven't got a friend for every 10 years of my life. I was hoping for that, too. But first you were going to have to show me you were the kind of a man I'd want to be friends *with*.
- Sam Eaton: He shines. His voice is music. You love him as though he never lived in his mother's body.
- Sam Eaton: That's what souring your insides, isn't it? That my blood and your mother's is running through your veins. That's why you get mixed up with a family who doesn't even want you.
- Alfred Eaton: I'm not interested in her family!
- Sam Eaton: Well, let me tell you something. That you can't buy respectability by slipping a wedding ring on it. Sometimes you end up with just what you're trying to run away from.
- Sam Eaton: Maybe you're a lot of things I never gave you credit for, but a man my age can't change so quickly. I can admit I've been wrong all these years but that wouldn't make anything right.