The prairies, and wind leaning on the tall grass, lazy streams down in the meadows, angry little midgets of water up in the mountains. Cattle moving down the slope, against the sun. Campfires and snowdrifts. Everybody ought to have some of that, sometime in his life.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) dir. Frank Capra
Why, I’ve never even thought of marriage. Well, it would mean giving up a whole way of thinking, behaving… a whole existence. I don’t know if I could. But I wish I could… Oh, I wonder, I wonder. I wonder if I could. KIM NOVAK andJAMES STEWART inBELL,BOOKANDCANDLE(1958)
You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading “the land of the free” in history books. Then they get to be men, they forget even more. JAMES STEWART inMR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
This scene where the men were struggling to find another word for panties was just too comical that I had to replay it three times. Mr. West, “I never heard my wife call them anything else.” Mr. Biegler, “I’m a bachelor, Your Honor.” Mr. Dancer, “I was overseas during the War, Your Honor… I, I learned a French word. I’m afraid that it might be slightly suggestive.”
