The Unforgiven (1960)

Lillian Gish: Mattilda Zachary

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Quotes 

• Andy Zachary : What did he want, Ben?

  Ben Zachary : He wanted to buy a woman.

  [looks at Rachel] 

  Ben Zachary : You.

  Rachel Zachary : Well, did you sell me?

  Ben Zachary : I held out for more horses.

  Rachel Zachary : Why would they want to buy me?

  Mattilda Zachary : Because you're a girl, my pretty. Horses and women are all the same to a Kiowa - to be bought or traded.

• [Ma Zachary has finally admitted to the family that Rachel really is a Kiowa] 

  Mattilda Zachary : Your Papa brought me the little girl child. He put her in my arms as I lay cryin'. I'd just lost my own little girl baby with yellow curls. Not old enough to be named when she died. So I gave her promised name to Rachel. My ownest Rachel. My beautiful little Indian baby. My breasts were hurting with all that milk.

• Mattilda Zachary : Prairie fever.

  Rachel Zachary : What's that?

  Mattilda Zachary : Worst thing you can get. Loneliness. I was touched by it myself, once or twice.

• Mattilda Zachary : Just what did he look like, Rachel?

  Rachel Zachary : Like something blown in by the wind.

• Ben Zachary : What makes you so happy, Mama?

  Mattilda Zachary : Because you ain't sick or dead or scalped or something worse!

  Ben Zachary : Nothing could kill me, except lightning out of the sky. And then it'd have to hit twice.

• Mattilda Zachary : I've seen a hundred if I've seen one. They all look alike to me. Lonely. Well, they're lonely men ridin' all over this country. Buffalo hunters, only the buff is gone. I feel sorry for them.

• Mattilda Zachary : Kiowas are like panthers! Always sneakin' about when you can't see them.

  Rachel Zachary : That one in the white buckskin, I'll never forget him. He was beautiful!

  Mattilda Zachary : A Kiowa? You're daft, child!

• Mattilda Zachary : Give me some.

  Cash Zachary : Now that's Wichita whiskey, Mama. It's been aged about four minutes and that ain't long enough to cure whatever they put in it.

  Mattilda Zachary : I know it, but I need it.

  Cash Zachary : So do I.

• Zeb Rawlins : [to Rachel]  We're gonna have to look at your body.

  Mattilda Zachary : You leave her be!

  Hagar Rawlins : Strip her down! Strip her down naked!

  Zeb Rawlins : Let the women take her in the house and undress her.

• Mattilda Zachary : Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.