Big Jake (1971)

John Wayne: Jacob McCandles

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• Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : And now *you* understand. Anything goes wrong, anything at all... your fault, my fault, nobody's fault... it won't matter - I'm gonna blow your head off. No matter what else happens, no matter who gets killed I'm gonna blow your head off.

• [to his son] 

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : You can call me Father, you can call me Jacob, you can call me Jake. You can call me a dirty son-of-a-bitch, but if you EVER call me Daddy again, I'll finish this fight.

• [Watching a sheepherder about to be hanged] 

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : No sir. No sir, I ain't. I ain't butted into somebody else's business since I was seventeen year old, at which time it almost got me killed.

  [the dog grows angrily] 

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : What's the matter with you?

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : [Looks down toward the hanging party; man kicks a young boy]  Aw, now... what'd he have to go and do that for?

• James McCandles : I am moved by your faith in someone you haven't seen since he was sixteen years old, Daddy!

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Daddy?

  James McCandles : Daddy.

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Well, son; since you don't have any respect for your elders, it's time somebody taught you some respect for your betters!

  [grabs James and throws him into a mud puddle] 

  James McCandles : Why, if you weren't my father...

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Go ahead. I give you leave.

  [James winds up to throw a punch, but before he swings, Jake hits him and knocks him back into the puddle] 

• Gunman at bathhouse in Escondero : [Cocking his pistol]  No hard feelings, mister.

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : [Shoots him with a shotgun he has hidden in the shower stall]  The hell there ain't.

• John Fain : Boy mean anything to you?

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Never laid eyes on him. But I'm being paid to bring him back alive or you dead - each and everyone of you. Now I'd rather bring the boy back, that's easier. But when it comes right down to it, don't matter to me .I'll earn my pay one way or the other. Now how about you? Are you the Big Chief or one of the little Indians?

  John Fain : Oh, just a little Indian. Just a messenger boy.

• Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : What about the boy? You gonna hang him too, or just beat him up some more?

  Head of lynching party : Mister, you shouldn't butt into things that aren't your business. You really shouldn't.

• Michael McCandles : You want to chance it, Mother?

  Martha McCandles : Buck?

  Buck Duggan : No matter what happens, I think they'll kill the boy sooner or later. Texas has the best rifleman in the world, luck with 200 yards to hit them...

  Martha McCandles : It's very daring, yes. Yes, I'll chance it. What you think. Jacob?

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Suit yourself, Martha

  Martha McCandles : I was asking your opinion, Jacob

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : No. You made up your mind and you made your decision alone, you live it alone

  Martha McCandles : I was wrong. You haven't changed, have you, Jacob McCandles.

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Not one bit.

• Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : I'll give you $500 now and another $500 when you get 'em to market.

  Scottish Shepherd : That's highway robbery!

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Well, maybe you think you're gonna get a better offer for 'em today?

  Scottish Shepherd : I'll take it... with one proviso.

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : What's that?

  Scottish Shepherd : I go with the sheep.

• Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Martha, It been a long time, It good to see you again.

  Martha McCandles : You've changed, Jacob

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Not you, Your as young and lovely as ever

• Hotel desk clerk : I thought you were dead.

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Dead? The next person who says that I'm gonna shoot, so help me.

• Jacob McCandles : [punches Michael in the face]  That's for scarin' me out of ten years of my life, which I can't spare.

• Jacob McCandles : Now you two young fools be careful tonight, because if you get yourself killed, your mother'd never let me hear the end of it.

• Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Hank, where are your spurs?

  Hank : You can't use 'em on these new velocopedes.

• Jacob McCandles : [to Buck]  15 years ago I'd a killed ya for riskin' my grandson's life. If I find him dead, I'll still kill you.

• Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : [Gunman has Jake cornered in a shower stall]  Would you at least let me get my clothes? I'm gettin' a little cold!

  Gunman at bathhouse in Escondero : You don't shut up and stay where you are, you're gonna be a lot colder.

• Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : I hate secrets!

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Never knew one to be kept.