No homespun wisdom. No cracker-barrel philosophy. None of the backwoods wit for which you are famous. Good night.

— William Barrett Travis (Laurence Harvey)

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7 seconds sound clip from the The Alamo (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:33:32.257 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- If it had not been for the fortunate intervention of Captain Dickinson and his patrol, a large number of badly needed volunteers would now be dead out there instead of at their posts in here!

- I demand your word of honor that there will be no repetition of such conduct. Otherwise, I shall order your arrest.

- Travis... Don't you worry anymore about arrest or insubordination. I take my people out at daybreak.

- Colonel Travis, I'm an old man, but you're wrong!

- That Jethro. Reminds me of a story...

- Please, Crockett!

- No homespun wisdom. No cracker-barrel philosophy. None of the backwoods wit for which you are famous. Good night.

- You better slack off on me, mister. This code-of-honor business doesn't bother me a bit.

- When there's trouble, I come from any direction as sudden and surprising as I can.

- My only concern here is 23 Tennesseans, so you better let me know what's in your mind.

- I'd have thought that would have been obvious to you.

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