The War Wagon (1967)

Howard Keel: Levi Walking Bear

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Quotes 

• Levi Walking Bear : Dumb Indians!

  Taw Jackson : Looks like they're getting ready to move out.

  Levi Walking Bear : They are. Squaws, old men, children - Pierce has starved them out. He'll have all the land now.

  Taw Jackson : What about Wild Horse?

  Levi Walking Bear : He and the warriors are stayin', but Pierce will hunt them down, too. Dumb Indians.

  Taw Jackson : And you're smart?

  Levi Walking Bear : Sure! Because I've learned to live in the white man's world and do what they do. Grab all you can, anytime you can.

• [Taw and Levi negotiate with Chief Wild Horse for his warriors' assistance in their attack on The War Wagon] 

  Levi Walking Bear : He says your enemy is his enemy.

  Taw Jackson : Good!

  Levi Walking Bear : No. He says he will lose too many braves.

  Taw Jackson : Ask him, "Does he ride with warriors, or women?"

• Lomax : Oh great, just great. I'm out a hundred thousand of my share, two thousand from Levi...

  [to Levi who is riding off towards the Indians sifting through the barrels of flour where Taw's gang has hidden the gold dust] 

  Lomax : Where are you going?

  Levi Walking Bear : Back to my people.

  Lomax : Now what am I supposed to do, live with the Indians for the next year and open up a bakery? And with Pierce dead, it doesn't even pay to kill you any more!

• [during the fight with Wild Horse's braves, the wagon with the stolen gold hidden in the flour barrels flips over spilling it's contents among the grateful Indian women] 

  Lomax : They're picking it clean! Why didn't you stop 'em?

  Taw Jackson : Well, just how do I go about that?

  Levi Walking Bear : I'm afraid Taw's right, Lomax. They'll fight you.

  Lomax : Shut up, you Indian!

  Levi Walking Bear : I know my people. To them it's flour.

  Lomax : Flour? What about the gold?

  Levi Walking Bear : As far as they know, it's just food.

• Levi Walking Bear : [at the bar]  Whiskey! I said, Whiskey!

• Levi Walking Bear : [at the bar]  Whiskey! I said, Whiskey!

  Bartender : We don't serve Indians here.

  Levi Walking Bear : Then I serve myself.

  [pours drink for himself and Lomax] 

  Levi Walking Bear : Join me.

  Lomax : Thanks.

  Taw Jackson : [Levi pours drink for Jackson]  No thanks.

  Levi Walking Bear : You too good to drink with Indian?

  Taw Jackson : That's right.

  [Levi puts bottle down, hits Jackson, starts bar fight] 

• Levi Walking Bear : [during the fight]  You might say I saved your life.