The Rebel (TV Series)

In Memoriam (1959)

Agnes Moorehead: Martha Lassiter

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Quotes 

• Mrs. Martha Lassiter : I'm sure you understand my curiosity about how you and he happened to be together at the time of his death.

  Johnny Yuma : Well, his company was outnumbered; his men started to retreat, but he forged ahead like the whole war depended on him. I was closest when he fell. I could tell by the look on his face that there was something he had to say to someone, anyone. That's when he asked me to come here. No need for me to tell you what kind of a soldier your son was. That monument speaks plainer than words.

  Mrs. Martha Lassiter : I'm very grateful. It's as if part of Phillip has been returned to me. If you only you could have fought shoulder to shoulder instead of face to face.

• [speaking to a photograph of her son, now deceased] 

  Mrs. Martha Lassiter : I've tried, Phillip. I tried so hard, even though I knew what you were really like inside. I've known ever since you were a boy. I can't protect you anymore, Phillip.

• [last lines] 

  [after watching the monument to her son, now disgraced, being dragged away, Mrs. Lassister turns to her estranged daughter] 

  Mrs. Martha Lassiter : Beth...

  Beth Lassiter : Mama.

  [cut to a shot of Johnny Yuma watching them, then riding to the monument of Corporal Phillip Lassiter, now in the cemetery. Yuma removes his Confederate cap for a moment, puts it back on and rides off]