The Wild North (1952)

Stewart Granger: Jules Vincent

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• Jules Vincent : You think you're the law in a red coat, huh? To me you're just a man who come to get me killed.

• Jules Vincent : You don't mind about the weather, huh?

  Constable Pedley : To tell you the truth, I never could do anything about it.

• Jules Vincent : Tell me, you're part Chippewa, are you not? What are you doing here...

  Indian Girl : In a place like this?

  Jules Vincent : Yes.

  Indian Girl : I wonder myself. I thought maybe - you see I wanted to sing. Now it's just a job. One has to eat, that's all.

  Jules Vincent : It's not enough.

  Indian Girl : Why isn't it?

  Jules Vincent : Because you're not happy.

  Indian Girl : And how can you tell this?

  Jules Vincent : Oh, the way you sing, the way you act.

  Indian Girl : Well, if I'm not happy, at least I'm working.

  Jules Vincent : No, no work is is good that does not make you happy.

• Jules Vincent : You try to take me in, bébé, and the same will happen with you as with him. I'll bury you, too.

  Constable Pedley : You should have buried Brody.

  Jules Vincent : I killed him. If I hadn't killed him, he'd have gotten me killed and the girl with me. I kill only to live, bébé. I kill what attacks me, man or animal.

• [last lines] 

  Jules Vincent : [just before departing, Jules and the Indian Girl stop and give their kitten to Pedley]  We got something for you. New generation, huh?

  Constable Pedley : What am I gonna to do with this?

  Jules Vincent : Well, build a house around it. Hey, by the way... did you really shoot to kill me?

  Constable Pedley : Sure I did.

  [smiles] 

  Constable Pedley : Sometimes I miss, that's all.

  Jules Vincent : [grins and pats Pedley on the shoulder]  Ah, ha ha!

  [Jules and the Indian Girl start to walk away] 

  Constable Pedley : Hey, what's its name?

  Jules Vincent : Hey, you name it.

  Constable Pedley : [looks at the meowing kitten]  Hey, Bébé!

• Constable Pedley : Why didn't you let them kill me?

  Jules Vincent : Don't worry, bébé. That's a job I'm keeping especially for myself.

• Jules Vincent : Think I wanted to kill that man? You think I'd like that?

  Constable Pedley : It isn't my job, Jules.

  Jules Vincent : I just asked.

  Constable Pedley : It isn't my job what a man is. It's what he does.

• Jules Vincent : Yeah, a fellow once said that sleep was the little death. With you, it might be the big one, huh? You follow me?

  [laughs] 

• Old Man : I'm 77, son. And I'm still alive.

  Jules Vincent : Yeah? Well, you keep it that way.

• Jules Vincent : [as they've reached the town and Jules is trying to shake Pedley out of his stupor, yelling]  You wanna go in like this? You want people to talk about it the rest of their lives - how the mouse brought back the cat?

• Constable Pedley : I don't like to take you in. It's like taking a bear or a deer to the zoo. But, the law has to be - even if sometimes gets the wrong animal in the trap. You can change it; but, you can't break it.

  Jules Vincent : I just - bent it a little.

  Constable Pedley : Only it broke.

• Jules Vincent : [at night at the camp fire with Pedley, out of coffee, Jules pours hot water into a cup]  Hot water. You know, I can take anything this country can throw at me, but I got to have coffee. Like that Greek guy, I got my Achilles heel, too. Coffee.

• Father Simon : It'll be a bad winter. One of the worst.

  Jules Vincent : Well, I've seen the best, Father, I wouldn't like to miss the worst!

• Bartender : Look, friend, I can talk about anything - anything you'd like.

  Jules Vincent : Like? I like that girl, over there.

• Jules Vincent : Don't make it more than it is.

  Indian Girl : I know what it is. It's your life!

  Jules Vincent : Listen, for a man or a mole or a bird, everyday is life and death.

• Jules Vincent : Hey bébé, what do you think about when you cannot sleep?

  Constable Pedley : Sleep.

  Jules Vincent : Do you ever think about death?

• Jules Vincent : It's a crazy cross. But, that's all right. He was a crazy man.

• Jules Vincent : You know, bébé, I can open a can of beans with one of those at 50 feet.

• Jules Vincent : That's right, bébé, you put it all down. But, in the end, I'll write the last word in your little book.

• Constable Pedley : Survival's the thing. You said it yourself, Jules, just staying alive.

  Jules Vincent : You think I couldn't throw it away?

  Constable Pedley : Life? You're too full of it. Someone would have to kill it out of you.

• Ruger : What happened to you?

  Jules Vincent : Bad luck.

• Jules Vincent : I come here to get drunk and - -

  [looks at the Indian Girl up and down] 

  Jules Vincent : to talk.

  Indian Girl : Are you drunk now?

  Jules Vincent : No. Not yet. When I am drunk I got back to my trap lines. You see, a man should do what he does the best. If I were to go after gold, I would just be another fool. But, in my own life, I am the best. And gold can buy many things; but, it cannot buy that.

  Indian Girl : You are the best one?

  Jules Vincent : Sure. I am the best trapper in the north country.

  Indian Girl : You are sure you are not drunk yet?

• Constable Pedley : You can go to Jules Vincent's cabin. There's food there and when the weather clears, you can hunt.

  Sloan : How far is it?

  Constable Pedley : You can get there.

  Ruger : Say, aren't you Jules Vincent?

  Jules Vincent : Yeah.

  Ruger : You think we can make it?

  Jules Vincent : You can try.

  Ruger : You don't sound very sure.

  Jules Vincent : I don't know how good a man you are, friend. I could make it.