The Wild Bunch (1969)

William Holden: Pike

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• Dutch Engstrom : They'll be waitin' for us.

  Pike Bishop : I wouldn't have it any other way.

• Pike Bishop : If they move, kill 'em!

• Pike Bishop : What would you do in his place? He gave his word.

  Dutch Engstrom : He gave his word to a railroad.

  Pike Bishop : It's his word.

  Dutch Engstrom : That ain't what counts! It's who you give it *to*!

• Pike Bishop : Let's go!

  Lyle Gorch : Why not?

• Pike Bishop : [after getting shot in the back by a whore]  Bitch!

  [Shoots whore] 

• Tector Gorch : Silver rings.

  Dutch Engstrom : [upset]  "Silver rings", your butt! Them's washers! Damn!

  Lyle Gorch : Washers. Washers. We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!

  Pike Bishop : They set it up.

  Lyle Gorch : "They"? Who in the hell is "they?"

  Sykes : [laughs hysterically]  "They"? Why, they is the plain and fancy they, that's who "they" is! Caught you, didn't they? Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my, what a bunch! Big tough ones, hunh? Here you are with a handful of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They? Who the hell is "they?"

  Pike Bishop : Railroad men... bounty hunters... Deke Thornton.

• [repeated line] 

  Pike Bishop : C'mon, you lazy bastard.

• Pike Bishop : I'd like to make one good score and back off...

  Dutch Engstrom : Back off to what?

• Sykes : Say, back there in Starbuck. How'd my boy do?

  Pike Bishop : Your boy? Crazy Lee?

  Sykes : Yeah, C.L., Clarence Lee, my daughter's boy. Not too bright, but a good boy.

  Pike Bishop : [thinks back on Crazy Lee agreeing to remain behind while the rest escaped]  Why didn't you tell me he was your grandson?

  Sykes : Well, you had enough things on your mind; besides he had to pull his own weight just like the rest of us. I just wanted to make sure he didn't let you down: run when things got hot. Huh? Huh?

  Pike Bishop : No, he did fine... just fine.

• Pike Bishop : We're not gonna get rid of anybody! We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be! When you side with a man, you stay with him! And if you can't do that, you're like some animal, you're finished! *We're* finished! All of us!

• Pike Bishop : [Holding a lit cigar to the fuses]  You know what this is?

  Herrera : Cuidado!

  Pike Bishop : Any trouble, no guns for the General.

  Herrera : Ha, ha-ha-ha-ha. Very smart. That's very smart for you damn gringos. So nobody can rob the guns.

  Pike Bishop : Nobody.

  Herrera : I am not afraid. They are not afraid. You blow up the wagon, you die. Or we kill you pretty soon. But we are amigos.

• Pike Bishop : [sarcastically]  You boys want to move on or stay here and give him a - decent burial?

  Tector Gorch : He was a good man, and I think we oughta bury him.

  Pike Bishop : He's dead! And he's got a lot of good men back there to keep him company!

  Lyle Gorch : Too damn many!

  Dutch Engstrom : I think the boys are right. I'd like to say a few words for the dear, dead departed.

  [removes his hat] 

  Dutch Engstrom : And maybe a few hymns'd be in order. Followed by a church supper. With a choir!

  Lyle Gorch : You crazy bastards! Both of you!

• [referring to the bank customers] 

  Crazy Lee : I kill 'em now?

  Pike Bishop : No. Hold them here until the shooting starts.

  Crazy Lee : I'll hold 'em here 'til Hell freezes over or you say different.

• Angel : Would you give guns to someone to kill your father or your mother or your brother?

  Pike Bishop : Ten thousand cuts an awful lot of family ties.

  Angel : My people have no guns. But with guns, my people could fight! If I could take guns... I would go with you.

  Dutch Engstrom : Hey, uh, how many cases of rifles did Zamora say was in that shipment?

  Pike Bishop : Sixteen.

  Dutch Engstrom : Well, give him one.

  Pike Bishop : All right. One case... and one case of ammo; but you give up your share of the gold.

  Angel : I will.

  Pike Bishop : We know you will.

  Sykes : I'm sure glad we got that settled.

• [the Bunch has just escaped from bounty hunters by blowing up a bridge] 

  Dutch Engstrom : At least we won't have to worry about Deke Thornton.

  Pike Bishop : [laughs]  Hell, no; not after ridin' a half a case of dynamite into the river!

  Sykes : [calmly]  Well, don't expect him to stay there! He'll be along... and you know it!

• Dutch Engstrom : What's our next move?

  Pike Bishop : Well, I figure Agua Verde's the closest... three days maybe. Then get the news and drift back to the border. Maybe a payroll, maybe a bank.

  Dutch Engstrom : Maybe that damn railroad.

  Tector Gorch : That damn railroad you're talkin' about, sure as hell ain't a-gettin' no easier.

  Sykes : And you boys ain't gettin' any younger either!

  [laughs] 

  Pike Bishop : We've got to start thinking beyond our guns. Those days are closin' fast.

• Pike Bishop : [talking about the railroad]  There was a man named Harrigan. Used to have a way of doin' things. I made him change his ways. A hell of a lot of people, Dutch, just can't stand to be wrong.

  Dutch Engstrom : Pride.

  Pike Bishop : And they can't forget it... that pride... being wrong. Or learn by it

  Dutch Engstrom : How 'bout us, Pike? You reckon we learned - bein' wrong, today?

  Pike Bishop : I sure hope to God we did.

• Pike Bishop : [the Gorches are protesting the dividing up of the loot]  Sharin' up will be the same as always.

  Lyle Gorch : Well, me and Tector don't think that he

  [points at Angel] 

  Lyle Gorch : oughtta get the same amount. He's just startin' out and this is mine and Tector's openin' for a new territory!

  Tector Gorch : That's right, and I figure a share to that old goat

  [points at Sykes] 

  Tector Gorch : for watchin' them horses is damn sure a share too much!

  Lyle Gorch : So, we decided; it ain't fair.

  Pike Bishop : If you two boys don't like equal shares, why in the hell don't you just take *all* of it?

  [pauses] 

  Pike Bishop : Well, why don't you *answer* me, you damn yellow-livered trash?

  Lyle Gorch : [realizing the rest are backing Pike]  Now, Pike, you know damn well...

  Pike Bishop : [angered]  I don't know a damn thing, except I either *lead* this bunch, or end it *right now*!

• Mohr : It would be very useful for us if we knew of some Americans who did not share their government's naive sentiments.

  Pike Bishop : Well, we share very few sentiments with our government.

• Pike Bishop : Let's go.

• Lyle Gorch : All your fancy plannin' and talkin' damn near got us shot to pieces over a few lousy bags of washers. Well, this was goin' to be me and Tector's last job before we quit and headed south. We spent all our time and money a-gettin' ready for this!

  Pike Bishop : You spent all your time and money runnin' whores in Hondo while I spent my stake settin' it up.

  [throws down washer] 

  Pike Bishop : Hell, I should have been runnin' whores instead of stealin' Army horses.

  Lyle Gorch : While you was doin' all that plannin', me and Tector was gettin' our bell rope pulled by two... two, mind you, Hondo whores!

  [starts laughing] 

  Dutch Engstrom : [laughing]  And Pike was dreamin' of washers... you were matching whores... in tandem!

  Lyle Gorch : What's that?

  Tector Gorch : That's one behind t'other.

  Lyle Gorch : That's right! That's what we was doin'!

• Dutch Engstrom : [impressed]  Well, I'd say those fellas know how to handle themselves!

  Sykes : They been fightin' Apaches for a thousand years; That's a sure way to learn.

  Pike Bishop : They ever get armed, with good leaders, this whole country'll go up in smoke!

  Sykes : That it will son, that it will.

  Lyle Gorch : They made damn fools out of us, Mr. Bishop! Gettin' so a feller can't sleep with both eyes closed for fear of gettin' his throat cut. Where in hell were you?

  Tector Gorch : Now you listen to me, Lyle - You get up off your ass and help once in a while, I wouldn'a got caught near s'easy.

• Pike Bishop : With the way the Generalissimo's cleaned out this part of the country, he ought to have a lot

  [of silver] 

  Pike Bishop : to spare.

  Dutch Engstrom : Eh, "Generalissimo", hell! He's just another bandit grabbin' all he can for himself.

  Pike Bishop : [amused]  Like some others I could mention?

  [laughs] 

  Dutch Engstrom : [serious]  Not so's you'd know it, Mr. Bishop. We ain't nothin' like him! We don't HANG nobody! I hope, someday, these people here kick him, and the rest of that scum like him, right into their graves.

  Angel : We will. If it takes forever.

• Lyle Gorch : [the Bunch is riding into Angel's village]  Hey, Angel, why in the hell don't you tell your folks to feed them dogs?

  Dutch Engstrom : Won't find very much around here. That damn Huerta scraped it clean.

  Angel : I have invited you to my village, to my home. Any disrespect to my family or to my people, I will kill you.

  Pike Bishop : Ashamed of having us meet your people?

  Angel : Yes. They don't know about my life when I leave the village.

  Lyle Gorch : You got a sister?

  Angel : Yes.

  Lyle Gorch : I'd be proud to make her acquaintance. - And that of your mama too!

  Tector Gorch : That goes for your grandma too, Sonny.

• Pike Bishop : You know what we are then?

  Don Jose : Si, the both of you!

  Pike Bishop : [laughing]  And you!

• Pike Bishop : Now, with your permission, I need a bath.

  Ernst : With my permission, I think you all need a bath.

  Lyle Gorch : I don't need no bath! What we need is a couple of them women you're hogging. You think you can fix that up for us, boy?

• Sykes : Hey, that was a mighty fine talk you gave the boys back there about sticking together. That Gorch came near killing me. Or me him.

  [chuckles] 

  Sykes : Damned old fool like me is not worth taking along.

  Pike Bishop : We started together. We'll end it together.

  Sykes : By God, that's the way I see it. That's the way it's always been with me.

• Pike Bishop : How bad did they hit you?

  Don Jose : Seven of the villagers were killed. Two of them hung. Our horses, cattle and corn stolen.

  Pike Bishop : What about the federal troops? Didn't they give you any protection?

  Don Jose : They were federal troops!

• Pike Bishop : What the hell's the matter with you? We got plenty of money to spend and not a worry in the world. They're not gonna look for us in their own back yard.

  Deke Thornton : How can you be so damn sure?

  Pike Bishop : Being sure is my business. Being sure is my business.

• Don Jose : And Teresa? Did they molest her?

  Don Jose : No molestó. She went with them because she wished to. She became the woman of Mapache. And the others, she went with them, laughing. Drunk with wine and love.

  [Angel walks away] 

  Don Jose : To him, Teresa was like a goddess to be worshipped from afar. But Mapache knew she was a mango, ripe and waiting!

  Pike Bishop : Angel dreams of love and Mapache eats the mango.

• Pike Bishop : What I don't know about, I sure as hell am gonna learn.

• Pike Bishop : This is our last go-around, Dutch. This time, we do it right.