The Big Sky (1952)
Kirk Douglas: Jim Deakins
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Quotes
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Boone Cardell : Why did she want to grab this?
Zeb Calloway : That's a Blackfoot scalp you got, and she knows it. Ain't you ever thought of why an injun takes a scalp?
Jim Deakins : Why?
Zeb Calloway : To shame an enemy. The way she figures it, there's a Blackfoot brave somewhere who can't show his face to the hereafter until that thing is buried under the ground.
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Jim Deakins : Sure is big country. The only thing bigger is the sky.
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Jim Deakins : [Watching Boone play with the Indian scalp and annoyed with him for leaving Teal-Eye] Playing with that scalp again. Whatd'ya give him that fer? That were a fool thing to do.
Zeb Calloway : Worse than that, whole story were a lie.
Jim Deakins : What!
Zeb Calloway : His brother weren't killed by no injun atall, fell in the river and drowned.
Jim Deakins : Huh... He wouldn't believe that!
Zeb Calloway : Nobody would. I just talk too much.
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[while Jim was unconscious, Zeb and Boone amputated Jim's mangled finger]
Jim Deakins : Who's got it?
Boone Cardell : Got what?
Jim Deakins : My finger! What's a man going to do without his finger?
Zeb Calloway : What do you want your finger for?
Jim Deakins : Zeb Calloway, didn't you tell me an injun can't go to heaven unless he's whole? Didn't ya?
Zeb Calloway : That's right, I did.
Boone Cardell : You sure did.
Jim Deakins : That's what I heard. It sounds right, too, don't it?
Zeb Calloway : Sounds right.
Boone Cardell : How can you go up there without your finger?
Jim Deakins : That's what I'm saying! Who's got it? Who's got it? Fine thing to do to a friend!