I've been thinking about her, Cody's widow, I mean, and the kid. You know what? We ought to give them a fourth, just as if he'd been our partner from the start.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:18:45.834 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- You talk about that mountain like it was a real woman.
- She's been a lot better to me than any woman I ever knew.
- Keep your shirt on, old-timer. Sure, I'll help you.
- Well, I reckon that's about everything.
- Each man's burros with his goods had better be his own responsibility.
- Well, bye, mountain, and thanks.
- Thanks.
- What, a fourth of all our goods?
- Hadn't have been for Cody, we wouldn't have walked away from that mountain. Ask Howard.
- Yeah, the buzzard would have got fat on us, all right.
- Yeah, it might just as well have been one of us, but it wasn't. It was our good luck and his bad.
- Whatever you guys do, I'm going to give a fourth.
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