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The Big Sky (film) Quotes

The Big Sky (film) is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . The Big Sky stopped airing in 1970.

It features Howard Hawks as producer, Dimitri Tiomkin in charge of musical score, and Russell Harlan as head of cinematography.

The Big Sky (film) is distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.

The cast includes: Arthur Hunnicutt as Zeb Calloway, and Kirk Douglas as Jim Deakins.

The Big Sky (film) Quotes

Kirk Douglas as Jim Deakins

  • (Kirk Douglas) "Sure is big country. The only thing bigger is the sky."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Playing with that scalp again. Whatd'ya give him that fer? That were a fool thing to do."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Worse than that, whole story were a lie."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "What."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "His brother weren't killed by no injun atall, fell in the river and drowned."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Huh -- He wouldn't believe that."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Nobody would. I just talk too much."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Who's got it?"
  • (Unnamed) "Got what?"
  • (Kirk Douglas) "My finger. What's a man going to do without his finger?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "What do you want your finger for?"
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Zeb Calloway, didn't you tell me an injun can't go to heaven unless he's whole? Didn't ya?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "That's right, I did."
  • (Unnamed) "You sure did."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "That's what I heard. It sounds right, too, don't it?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Sounds right."
  • (Unnamed) "How can you go up there without your finger?"

Arthur Hunnicutt as Zeb Calloway

  • (Unnamed) "Calloway, what do you think? Do you think they went away, huh?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "They gone went. But the question is, will they stay gone went?"
  • (Unnamed) "Why did she want to grab this?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "That's a Blackfoot scalp you got, and she knows it. Ain't you ever thought of why an injun takes a scalp?"
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Why?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "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."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Boone, this is Teal's father, Chief Red Horse. Chief Red Horse wants to see you on account he wants to know how much you're gonna pay for his daughter."
  • (Unnamed) "Pay for Teal?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "You married her, didn't ya? He gets paid."
  • (Unnamed) "Well, I reckon that's the custom."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Well, yes and no. In this particular case, it's yes."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "They ain't deservin' of it, but I guess we better bury 'em."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Blackfeet -- proud injuns. They ain't gonna let no white man spy on their country. The only thing they are feared of is a white man's sickness."
  • (Unnamed) "What's that?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Grabs. White men don't see nothing pretty unless they want to grab it. The more they grab, the more they want to grab. It's like a fever and they can't get cured. The only thing for them to do is to keep on grabbin' until everything belongs to white men and then start grabbin' from each other. I reckon injuns got no reason to love nothing white."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Keep you eyes open. If you see anything, shoot. Don't bother to aim because you probably couldn't hit nothing no how."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "I remember once there being a trapper named Parker. He run smack into a big grizzly bear. The bear sure made a mess out of Parker before we killed it. Ripped one of his ears clear off. But this child just happened to have a needle and some of this deer sinew, just like we got here. Yeah, while his ear was still hot, I picked it up and sewed it back on his head. And it growed most as good as ever."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "I said growed most as good as ever. Not hardly. It seems I sewed Parker's ear on backwards. Yeah, he hated me until the day he died, on account of every time he heared a rattlesnake, he'd turn the wrong direction and step smack into it."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Ain't it funny. Two men is friends. Then a girl comes along an -- an pretty soon they ain't friends no more. And now with one of 'em walking out on what the other'n would give his right arm for, I kept wondering what they would do to settle it."
  • (Unnamed) "What's the noise about?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "They're (Indians) celebrating your wedding."
  • (Unnamed) "Wedding?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "You maybe don't know it, but you're a married man now."
  • (Unnamed) "Married? And I don't got nothing to say about it?"
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Wouldn't do you no good to say it."

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