The Southerner (film) Quotes

The Southerner (film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . The Southerner completed its run in 1970.

It features Robert Hakim as producer, Werner Janssen in charge of musical score, and Lucien N. Andriot as head of cinematography.

The Southerner (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Southerner (film) is 92 minutes long. The Southerner (film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Zachary Scott as Sam Tucker, Betty Field as Nona Tucker, Charles Kemper as Tim, Beulah Bondi as Granny, J. Carrol Naish as Devers, and Percy Kilbride as Harmie.

The Southerner (film) Quotes

Charles Kemper as Tim

• (Charles Kemper) "Hey, would you be interested in coming to work in the factory with me?"
• (Zachary Scott) "Are you crazy? What would I do in a factory? I'm a farmer."

• (Charles Kemper) "All you farmers is just the same. Gamblers. That's what you all are, to a man. Year after year you starve yourself to death and hope that some fine day; well, I think you're loco."

• (Charles Kemper) "Man, with money in your pocket, you're as free as the wind."

Beulah Bondi as Granny

• (Beulah Bondi) "The way I see it, we ain't gonna have no dinner again tonight."
• (Betty Field) "Never you mind, Granny. For breakfast we'll have a nice big bowl of corn meal mush."
• (Beulah Bondi) "When you all look down on my cold dead face in the county pine box, you'll be sorry then. Maybe."
• (Betty Field) "You keep on promisin' Granny. You don't never deliver the goods."
• (Beulah Bondi) "Hush your mouth. You can't talk to me like that. You ain't even a real Tucker."

• (Beulah Bondi) "Sam Tucker. My own grandson, gone crazy as a bedbug."

Zachary Scott as Sam Tucker

• (Zachary Scott) "Every time I get plumb wore out, I think about you and Jotty and Daisy, and I ain't quite so tired anymore."
• (Betty Field) "Aw Sam -- I just never could get along without you."
• (Zachary Scott) "Me too, honey. I couldn't live without you."

• (Unnamed) "Ain't I ever seen you someplace before?"
• (Zachary Scott) "Could be. I don't know."
• (Unnamed) "You in town all alone?"
• (Zachary Scott) "No, ma'am. Like you see, I'm with my friend here and my wife's waitin' for me at Harmie's store."
• (Unnamed) "Oh, so you got a wife."
• (Zachary Scott) "Yep, I got a wife."
• (Unnamed) "Well some guys got wives and they're still nice and; friendly."

• (Zachary Scott) "Them machines of yours, and they're fine, I realize that, but, you sure can't eat 'em. Once in awhile you gotta have a hunk of beef and few ears of corn to fill up your belly. Oh, you city folks are mighty smart. But, I'm afraid without us farmers, you'd get kinda skinny."
• (Charles Kemper) "And without us workers, I just wonder what'd happen to you all. Your plow, she sure didn't grow on no tree. And your gun that you feed your bunch with in the winter, you didn't plant no seeds to get that. Someday like, I hope you get you a tractor. Where do you reckon that'll come from? Believe me, friend, it takes all kind to make up this whole world. You love your farm. It's right you stay. I like to work in a factory."

• (Zachary Scott) "I was so plumb wore out for awhile I didn't seem to believe in nothin' no more. But, now my clothes are startin' to dry and I'm beginnin' to believe again. I guess that's the way the Earth feels when she's wet. But, the Sun will start dryin' her out and she'll start callin' to me again, just the way Nona does sometimes."

J. Carrol Naish as Devers

• (J. Carrol Naish) "How 'bout you? How'd you get started?"
• (J. Carrol Naish) "Sharecrop. First year I lost my whole crop. It was ruined by the hale. Next year, black leg got my cow and pig that I spent all my savings fer. My wife caught cold and she died. Two years later, one of my kids, the boy, he died from Spring Sickness. Maybe I lost 'em both, my woman and my kid, because I didn't have no money for doctorin'. Here I am with a farm, a good one, belongs all to me and is worth lots of money. Only I can't forget what it cost me."

Percy Kilbride as Harmie

• (Percy Kilbride) "Me, I know what war is. When we was right close to Shadow Therry, the old Colonel, he brung us all together and he said --"
• (Charles Kemper) "He said, "Young men, in civilian life, never brag about your conquests, whether they be love or war.""
• (Percy Kilbride) "Shut up, young fella. I'm tellin' ya I know. And I know, I know."

• (Percy Kilbride) "Tim just came back to show off his city clothes."
• (Townsman) "Yeah, just take a look at that fancy tie. Seems like in the city, dollars grow faster than beans in the field."
• (Charles Kemper) "Don't pay no mind to those yokels. Sam, I've been lookin' all over for ya. Let's go over to the Seamen's and I'll buy us a beer and tell you all about it."
• (Zachary Scott) "Brother, I'm with you anytime you'll buy me a beer."

Betty Field as Nona Tucker

• (Betty Field) "Tomorrow, I guess we'll be though with the plowin'."
• (Beulah Bondi) "Heh. Through with the plowin'. I'll be jiggered. As if we'd ever get through with the plowin'. I'm goin' back to the house and just sit and wait for my call to glory."

• (Betty Field) "Easy, you'll all get your share."
• (Zachary Scott) "Hold on, everybody. There's gonna be a blessing. Much obliged, Lord. Looks like the Tuckers are gonna make the grade, after all. Amen."
• (Betty Field) "Granny. Granny gets the first, 'cause she's the youngest."
• (Beulah Bondi) "I'd taken the Lord to be a stranger in this house."
• (Betty Field) "Then comes Jotty, 'cause he's the littlest. Then comes Papa, 'cause he caught the possum. And this one's for Zoolie, because he helped him."
• (Betty Field) "And last of all, Daisy and me, 'cause we're the women folk."

• (Betty Field) "I reckon we oughta stay."
• (Zachary Scott) "You really mean that? You ain't just sayin' that to make me feel good?"
• (Betty Field) "I'm sayin' it cause I believe you're as good as any man and it's right for you to be your own boss."

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