Shane (1953)

Edgar Buchanan: Fred Lewis

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• Joe Starrett : Now, wait a minute. Let's not be in a hurry. There's one more thing. Torrey was a pretty brave man, and I figure we'd be doin' wrong if we wasn't the same.

  Fred Lewis : Joe, last time you argued us into stayin', Torrey was alive.

  Ed Howells : What do you want us to stay for? More of this?

  Joe Starrett : Because we can have a regular settlement here, we can have a town and churches and a school and...

  Fred Lewis : Graveyard.

  Joe Starrett : I-I don't know, we just got to, that's all.

  Shane : Know what you want to stay for? Something that means more to you than anything else - your families - your wives and kids. Like you, Lewis, your girls. Shipstead with his boys. They've got a right to stay here and grow up and be happy. That's up to you people to have - nerve enough to not give it up.

  Joe Starrett : That's right. That's - we can't give up this valley and we ain't gonna do it. This is farmin' country, a place where people can come and bring up their families. Who is Ruf Ryker or anyone else to run us away from our own homes? He only wants to grow his beef and what we want to grow up is families, to grow 'em good and grow 'em, grow 'em up strong, the way they was meant to be grown. God didn't make all this country just for one man like Ryker.

• Fred Lewis : Joe, just how far is this Ryker gonna push us?

  Joe Starrett : Let's not talk scared. That's just exactly what Ryker wants. He thinks he can just shoo us off of here like a flock of chickens.

• Sam Grafton : [as Shane comes out of the fitting room]  How is it?

  Shane : Good enough. How much do I owe you?

  Sam Grafton : Well, let's see: pants, a dollar. 2 shirts, 60 cents. Belt. Young man, you owe me 2 dollars and 2 bits.

  Fred Lewis : What's the matter, son? You look kinda pale.

  Shane : Been a long time since I got store-bought clothes.