(angrily) Well, I'm right here to tell you, mister, ain't *nobody* going to push me off *my* land! Grampa took up this land seventy years ago. My pa was born here. We was *all* born on it, and some of us got killed on it, and some died on it. And that's what makes it ourn--bein' born on it, and workin' it, and dyin' on it--and not no piece of paper with writin' on it! So just come on and try to push me off!
Muley Graves, played by John QUALEN, in The Grapes of Wrath (John FORD, 1940)
Cinematography by Gregg TOLAND. Screenplay by Nunnally JOHNSON, based on the novel by John STEINBECK.
(Source: dailyscript.com)
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The poetry of Ford
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