Christopher Mitchum credited as playing...
Michael McCandles
- Michael McCandles: You want to chance it, Mother?
- Martha McCandles: Buck?
- Buck Duggan: No matter what happens, I think they'll kill the boy sooner or later. Texas has the best rifleman in the world, luck with 200 yards to hit them...
- Martha McCandles: It's very daring, yes. Yes, I'll chance it. What you think. Jacob?
- Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles: Suit yourself, Martha
- Martha McCandles: I was asking your opinion, Jacob
- Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles: No. You made up your mind and you made your decision alone, you live it alone
- Martha McCandles: I was wrong. You haven't changed, have you, Jacob McCandles.
- Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles: Not one bit.
- Jake: Well, if you can shoot that far, a quarter of a mile straight along the edge of my nose is a mountain buck. Shoot it.
- Michael McCandles: I don't kill to make a point, Father.
- Jake: Michael, there's two reason to kill - survival and meat. We need meat!
- Jake: What do you do when cockroaches get in the woodwork, Michael?
- James McCandles: Smoke 'em out?
- Jake: That's right.
- Michael McCandles: Why not wait for them to make the first move?
- Jake: Because waiting is good for them and bad for us. You get impatient, nervy, careless and maybe dead.