Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Claudia Cardinale: Jill McBain

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• Cheyenne : Ma'am, it seems to me you ain't caught the idea.

  Jill : Of course I have. I'm here alone in the hands of a bandit who smelled money. If you want to, you can lay me over the table and amuse yourself, and even call in your men. Well, no woman ever died from that. When you're finished, all I'll need will be a tub of boiling water and I'll be exactly what I was before - with just another filthy memory!

  Cheyenne : [sighs]  You make good coffee, at least?

• Jill : But... but they were his men.

  Harmonica : Yeah.

  Jill : And they tried to kill him.

  Harmonica : They must've found somebody who pays better.

  Jill : And YOU! You saved his life.

  Harmonica : I didn't let them kill him, and that's not the same thing.

• Harmonica : Now I gotta go. Gonna be a beautiful town, Sweetwater.

  Jill : [with tears]  I hope you'll come back someday.

  Harmonica : Someday.

• Jill : Hey, you're sort of a handsome man.

  Cheyenne : But I'm not the right man. And neither is he.

  Jill : Maybe not. But it doesn't matter.

• Jill : [carrying around Brett's photograph]  You wake up one morning and say "World, I know you. From now on there are no more surprises," and then you happen to meet a man like this, who looked like a good man - clear eyes, strong hands - and he wants to marry you, which doesn't happen often, and he says he's rich, too, which doesn't hurt.

• Cheyenne : You deserve better.

  Jill : The last man who told me that... is buried out there.

• Jill : [stares at Harmonica from her window]  Cheyenne.

  Cheyenne : Huh?

  Jill : What's he waiting for out there? What's he doing?

  Cheyenne : He's whittling on a piece of wood. I got a feeling, when he stops whittling, something's gonna happen.

• Jill : I could swear we're going to have that strange sound.

  Harmonica : Right now.

• Barman : What can I do for you, ma'am?

  Jill : I would like some water, if it's no trouble.

  Barman : Water? Well, you see, that word is poison around these parts ever since the days of the great flood.

  Jill : You mean you never wash?

  Barman : We sure do!

  Jill : Well, I'd like to use the same facilities you people do.

  Barman : You sure can. Just happen to have a full tub in the back. And you're lucky. Only 3 people have used it this morning.

  Jill : Used it one at a time or all together?

• Jill : You don't look at all like the noble defender of poor defenseless widows. But then again, I don't look like a poor defenseless widow.

• Frank : Is there anything in the world you wouldn't do to save your skin?

  Jill : Nothing, Frank.

• Harmonica : You're a remarkable woman.

  Jill : And you're a remarkable man. But, you have something on your mind.

  Harmonica : And you got something on your mind.

  Jill : Hot water. A bathtub full of hot water. I think it's time I filled that bathtub.