Northwest Passage (1940)

Robert Young: Langdon Towne

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Quotes 

• Maj. Robert Rogers : [referring to Langdon's abdominal wound]  Are ypu hurt bad?

  Langdon Towne : First thing I've had in my stomach in days.

• Langdon Towne : What did he have in the sack?

  Maj. Robert Rogers : [pause]  The head of an Abenaki indian.

• Lt. Crofton : [giving away his share of parched corn]  If you fellows were smart, you wouldn't have to eat corn!

  [scurries away laughing] 

  Langdon Towne : [limps into camp on a crutch]  Food? Where's the food?

  Hunk Marriner : Langdon!

  [runs towards him] 

  Hunk Marriner : You're just in time for a little corn with the rest of us roosters!

• [last lines] 

  Elizabeth Browne : [standing alongside Langdon Towne as Major Robert Rogers and his rangers march into the distance]  Is there, Langdon? Is there a Northwest Passage?

  Langdon Towne : Who knows.

  [pause] 

  Langdon Towne : It's every man's dream to find a short route to his heart's desire. If the major dreams long enough, he'll find it.

  Elizabeth Browne : Will we hear from him?

  Langdon Towne : Hear from him?

  [pause] 

  Langdon Towne : Every time we look across the river we'll hear his voice calling us through the wind. He'll be within us, Elizabeth - wherever we are or he may be - for that man will never die.

• Cap Huff : [to Langton]  If you're tryin' to drink yourself outta lovesickness, why don't you switch to rum? We've got some rum that'll burn the knots out of a pine plank.

  Langdon Towne : [Drunkenly]  Bring 'em me.

• Langdon Towne : [Slapping at mosquitoes as they walk through wetlands]  Mosquitoes don't bite you, do they?

  Hunk Marriner : Nope.

  Langdon Towne : You put something on that keeps them off?

  Hunk Marriner : Rancid bear grease. They hate the stink worse than I do.

  Langdon Towne : [Smelling some of the bear grease that Hunk offers him]  thanks. I'll take the mosquitoes.

• Maj. Robert Rogers : [notices Langdon is nervous prior to the attack on the Abenaki village]  Cold?

  Langdon Towne : I never shot a man before.

  Maj. Robert Rogers : I know just how you feel, there's nothing to be ashamed of. I was paralysed all through my first fight. Like getting buck fever, I just stood there. But my old musket was s'well trained that it kept firing and reloading all by itself. Yes sir it killed six Indians I never pulled the trigger.

  Langdon Towne : If I had that gun I'd be alright.

  Maj. Robert Rogers : When things start popping maybe you'll find it.