The Tall Men

Movie The Tall Men
Year 1955
Title card: Montana Territory - 1866. They came from the South, headed for the goldfields... Ben and Clint Allison, lonely and desperate men. Riding away from a heartbreak memory of Gettysburg. Looking for a new life. A story of tall men - and long shadows.
[first lines]
[pointing to a lynched man dangling from a tree limb]
Colonel Ben Allison: Looks like we're close to civilization.
[about Ben Allison]
Nathan Stark: There goes the only man I ever respected. He's what every boy thinks he's going to be when he grows up and wishes he had been when he's an old man.
[last lines]
Nella Turner: Ben, it was a long walk out here and my feet are killing me. Will you take my boots off?
Colonel Ben Allison: [Eating rabbit cooked by Nella] You sure give a honey and molassas flavor to this rabbit
Nella Turner: That's not honey and molassas-that's just girl




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