Perhaps, but you can't expect him to lean on any of these people.
5 seconds sound clip from the The Oklahoma Kid (1939) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:55:20 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- It was the worst kind of a farce. They'd hardly let Mr. Martin speak.
- Well, I guess I'll be moving along.
- Jim, don't do anything foolish.
- It seems to me that's just what I've been doing...
- Riding around trying to catch the law by the coattails.
- Perhaps dad can get a new trial. Perhaps he can prove that this one was illegal.
- Perhaps, but you can't expect him to lean on any of these people.
- Jim, think of your father and how feels.
- He's an honorable man. He's lived with the law.
- Yes. I think he's very lucky to have a no-good son to see doesn't die by it.
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