Orson Welles
(as Narrator)
Narrator:
And this is what the legend says - a flower, known nowhere else, grows from out of the desperate crags where Pearl vanished. Pearl - who was herself a wild flower sprung from the hard clay, quick to blossom and early to die.
Lillian Gish
(as Laura Belle McCanles)
Laura Belle McCanles:
[to Pearl] Neither your father nor I found happiness in this world, and I'm afraid neither will you.
Lionel Barrymore
(as Sen. Jackson McCanles)
Jesse McCanles:
You mean to shoot down unarmed men?
Sen. Jackson McCanles: Just like rattlesnakes if they cross that line!
Sen. Jackson McCanles: Just like rattlesnakes if they cross that line!
Harry Carey
(as Lem Smoot)
Lem Smoot:
There's a funny glow in the sky tonight, ain't there? I remember once hearing one of them injun legends about how their ancestors lit bonfires in the sky when the chief's son was dying.
Joseph Cotten
(as Jesse McCanles)
Pearl Chavez:
And you'll forget about... about tonight, won't you? You'll forget it?
Jesse McCanles: No, I don't think I'll forget. I don't think I'll ever be able to. I shouldn't have told you the way I felt. It wasn't fair. There I go again, trying to be fair.
Jesse McCanles: No, I don't think I'll forget. I don't think I'll ever be able to. I shouldn't have told you the way I felt. It wasn't fair. There I go again, trying to be fair.
Jennifer Jones
(as Pearl Chavez)
Butterfly McQueen
(as Vashti)
Pearl Chavez:
Oh Vashti, why are you so slow?
Vashti: I don't rightly know, Miss Pearl, except I always have so much to remember.
Vashti: I don't rightly know, Miss Pearl, except I always have so much to remember.
Jennifer Jones
(as Pearl Chavez)
Lionel Barrymore
(as Sen. Jackson McCanles)
Joseph Cotten
(as Jesse McCanles)
Sen. Jackson McCanles:
So that's where you stand!
Jesse McCanles: I think I'd rather be on the side of the victims than of the murderers.
Jesse McCanles: I think I'd rather be on the side of the victims than of the murderers.
