Northwest Passage (1940)

Walter Brennan: 'Hunk' Marriner

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• Hunk Marriner : [mumbles]  Better off in jail.

• 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!

• Maj. Robert Rogers : [Addressing his troops before the raid on Fort Francis]  Now pay attention. I've just had a look at the town. They've been having a whale of a time all night. Haven't left a sentry out - not one. The wind is in our favor... even the dogs can't smell us.

  Hunk Marriner : Lucky thing for the dogs.

  Maj. Robert Rogers : Now w're under orders to wipe out this town, so see that you kill every fighting Indian - kill 'em quick and kill 'em dead, and for Heaven's sake, don't kill any of our own Indians and don't kill any of the white captives. Our own Indians will have white crosses on their backs, so keep your eyes open. Don't make any mistakes.

• 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 : Rejoin your company, Marriner.

  Hunk Marriner : Langdon's wounded!

  [pause] 

  Hunk Marriner : I'm not leaving him!

  Maj. Robert Rogers : [shouts]  Another word out of you and I'll have you shot! Now rejoin your company!

  Hunk Marriner : [mumbles]  Yes, sir.

• Cap Huff : [watching the column of rangers march past]  Ain't you goin'?

  Hunk Marriner : [looks up in disbelief]  No... I've been!

• Hunk Marriner : [upset]  But I'd hate to be a man and always be as right as you are.

  Maj. Robert Rogers : I'm not a man now, Sergeant. I'm a soldier and commander of men.

  [pause] 

  Maj. Robert Rogers : If you ever meet me when I'm just a man, you may have to use a little charity.

  Hunk Marriner : [shocked]  Yes, sir.

  [pause] 

  Hunk Marriner : I'm sorry, sir.

• Hunk Marriner : [Trying to get comfortable in a tree branch]  I slept ina lot of worst places, but right now I can't recall where they was.