Learning, studying, working like a dog. And what does it get me? First chance I have to be somebody, I'm beaten out of it by an ignorant cowhand who can't even write his own name.
— Will Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon)
11 seconds sound clip from the Dark Command (1940) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:31:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Oh, there I go again. There's something I should've done before that.
- This.
- Now that's the right order in which things are done in Texas.
- Don't do it, Will. Don't do it. It ain't right.
- Well, I'm sick of doing what's right. I'm sick of teaching school getting nowhere.
- I'm going to be somebody in this country, somebody big.
- Stop it, Will! Stop it! You ain't gonna take that road.
- That's why we come here from Ohio, Away from the rottenness of your brothers.
- I taught you different. There's good in ya. And it's stronger than the bad that's in your blood.
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