Kansas Pacific (1953)

Eve Miller: Barbara Bruce

Quotes 

• Barbara Bruce : [resignedly]  You're staying.

  Cal Bruce : I guess old Smokestack's right this time. We've handled these diploma boys before, you know. He'll learn soon enough to stay out of our way.

  Barbara Bruce : Well... alright. But you've got to promise me one thing. If this man turns out to be impossible, we're leaving. I'm not go to let anyone push you around.

  Cal Bruce : Have you ever seen anyone push me around... except you and your mother?

• Cal Bruce : Someday, I'm going to take a ten pound sledge to that pipe... and I hope it's in your mouth when I do.

  Smokestack : I've been waiting for you to try that for twenty-two years, you miserable Irish polecat.

  Cal Bruce : You're fired!

  Smokestack : Ha!

  Smokestack , Barbara Bruce : You can't fire me, I quit two hours ago!

• Barbara Bruce : What's the sense in worrying about something that might not happen?

  Cal Bruce : Well, if we worry enough maybe it won't happen.