Blowing Wild (1953)

Gary Cooper: Jeff Dawson

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• Marina Conway : [Clutching Jeff]  No, Jeff! No. Don't go. I'm desperate! I need you. Help me. Help me!

  Jeff Dawson : [Releases her]  I'm sorry for you, but I can't help you.

  Marina Conway : You mean you won't. You don't want to. Why?

  Jeff Dawson : I mean this time I'm helping myself.

  Marina Conway : That's not the reason, you know it. What is it, that girl? No, it can't be. You're not in love with her.

  Jeff Dawson : Well, now that I hear you say it, I think I am.

  Marina Conway : Well, you can't. I won't let you. You belong with me and you're going to stay with me.

  Jeff Dawson : You're wrong. On both counts.

• Jeff Dawson : [Confronting Marina]  What have you done, Marina?

  Marina Conway : I committed murder to get you. Murder!

  Jeff Dawson : You killed Paco?

  Marina Conway : I did it for you, don't you understand? I did it for you!

  Jeff Dawson : [Choking her]  You killed Paco. You killed him!

  [He catches himself and releases her] 

  Jeff Dawson : Makes me sick even to look at you.

  Marina Conway : You'll never get away from me. I'll never let you go. I'll say you helped me. I'll say I killed him and you helped me. I don't care if they hang me just so they hang you, too!

• El Gavilan : Good morning, mister.

  Jeff Dawson : What do you want?

  El Gavilan : You haven't struck oil yet, senor.

  Jeff Dawson : What's it to you?

  El Gavilan : I only wish to tell you. It's dangerous.

  Jeff Dawson : Why?

  El Gavilan : They blow up many wells.

  Jeff Dawson : Oh, I see.

  El Gavilan : Perhaps the mister wants to prevent bandits from blowing up this well?

  Jeff Dawson : That'd be pretty hard to do. We have no guns.

  El Gavilan : You don't need a gun.

  Jeff Dawson : We also have no money.

  El Gavilan : Not even some money? Some little kind of money? Can't you get some? You got no friends? Who told you to dig here?

  Jeff Dawson : I bought a lease.

  El Gavilan : Ha! Then you have money and I want it!

• Dutch Peterson : Oh, why'd they have to do it to us? We save every nickel to sink this well and now look at us. Ain't nothing left. Just nothing.

  Jeff Dawson : There's still oil here and we're going to dig it out.

  Dutch Peterson : How? What with? Where are we gonna get a drill pipe, tools and a new rig? Where? Where?

  Jeff Dawson : We'll get us a job, save up and try it again.

  Dutch Peterson : I'm sick and tired of trying. It it ain't floods or tornados, it's salt water or bandits. I'm just plain tired.

  Jeff Dawson : It's a long way back to town. Let's go.

  Dutch Peterson : I ain't going!

  [He follows Jeff anyway] 

• Jeff Dawson : Can't live with a snake by feeding him honey.

• Marina Conway : Why do you always fight me?

  Jeff Dawson : You have a husband.

  Marina Conway : You could've been my husband. Why aren't you?

  Jeff Dawson : Because you're no good, Marina.

  Marina Conway : I know. I wasn't always this way. With you it was different. You brought out everything decent in me. I wanted to be decent. When you walked out, you stole my chance.