They Came to Cordura (1959)
Rita Hayworth: Adelaide Geary
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Quotes
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Adelaide Geary : One act of cowardice doesn't make a man a coward forever, just as one act of bravery doesn't make a man a hero forever.
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Adelaide Geary : Heroes? Saints living in the desert? My God, they tried to rape me! And blackmail you! It's a wonder they haven't shot you already! No, Thorne, they're only men - and damned poor specimens at that!
Major Thomas Thorn : I have less right than any man on earth to judge them.
Adelaide Geary : Or to judge yourself either.
Major Thomas Thorn : [pauses] You may be right, what you say. They're human beings. But they're more than that. They have one thing in them that is a miracle and a mystery. It redeems them. They don't know what it is themselves, but they have it. I have to save it.
Adelaide Geary : You really believe this?
[he nods]
Adelaide Geary : If you do, Thorn, if you do... you may be worth all of them.
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Adelaide Geary : I wouldn't give him my sweat if he was dying of thirst.