Hombre (1967)
Actors:
Paul Newman (actor),
Elmore Leonard (writer),
Richard Boone (actor),
Val Avery (actor),
Tim Burstall (miscellaneous crew),
Barbara Rush (actress),
Martin Balsam (actor),
Fredric March (actor),
Cameron Mitchell (actor),
Donfeld (costume designer),
Frank Bracht (editor),
Martin Ritt (producer),
Martin Ritt (director),
Meta Rebner (miscellaneous crew),
David Rose (composer),
Plot: John 'Hombre' Russell is a white man raised by the Apaches on an Indian reservation and later by a white man in town. As an adult he prefers to live on the reservation. He is informed that he has inherited a lodging-house in the town. He goes to the town and decides to trade the place for a herd. He has to go to another city. The only stagecoach is one being hired for a special trip paid by Faver and his wife Audra. As there are several seats others join the stagecoach making seven very different passengers in all. During the journey they are robbed. With the leadership of John Russell they escape with little water and the money that the bandits want. They are pursued by the bandits. As they try to evade the bandits they reveal their true nature in a life threatening situation.
Keywords: abandoned-building, abandoned-mine, adultery, ambush, apache, bar, bartender, based-on-novel, betrayal, boardinghouse
Genres:
Western,
Taglines: Hombre means MAN... Paul Newman is HOMBRE!
Quotes:
Grimes: Mister, you've got alot of hard bark on you walkin' down here like this. Now, I owe you. You put two holes in me.::John Russell: Usually enough for most of 'em.::Grimes: Don't try it again, that Vaquero is more than a fair hand.::Grimes: You got the money?::John Russell: Guess I brought my dirty laundry down by mistake.::Grimes: Let me see it.::John Russell: Look for yourself.::Grimes: [opens bag, pulls out a handful of clothes] Well now, what'ya suppose hell's gonna look like?::John Russell: We all die, just a question of when.
[Grimes has just delivered an ultimatum to Mendez and the others]::John Russell: Hey. I got a question. How are you planning to get back down that hill?::Grimes: Now you wait a minute! I'm getting back down the same way I came up! (Begins running back down the hill. Russell shoots him as he is running)::Jessie: [as Grimes crawls away after being shot] Cicero Grimes, meet John Russell.
Jessie: And we got him a marble headstone. It had his name on it, and underneath, we had them put, "In the Fullness of His Years." Is that all right with you?::John Russell: I'll settle for that. I'm not on the slab.::Jessie: Well, what do you figure yours is going to read?::John Russell: "Shot Dead," probably.::Jessie: Don't people take to you, Mr. Russell?::John Russell: It only takes one who doesn't.
Doris Blake: You're just saying that so we won't go down there.::John Russell: They'll kill you both. That's why I'm saying it.
[Russell has just fatally shot the Mexican bandit]::Mexican Bandit: I would like at least to know his name.::Henry Mendez: He was called John Russell.
Henry Mendez: Hombre, which name today, which do you want?::John Russell: Anything but bastard will do.
Braden: Hey, what's going on?::Jessie: I'm moving you out. I want you to take your socks, your cigar stubs, your long johns, and your nickel-plated sheriff's badge, and amble back down the hall to your own room.::Braden: I like it here.::Jessie: Can't quite remember how you got squatter's rights in here, anyhow. Seems to me you came by one night to ask for an extra blanket and stayed a year.
Braden: I been working since I was ten years old, Jessie, cleaning spittoons at a dime a day. It's now thirty years later, and all I can see out the window here is a dirt road going nowhere. The only thing that changes the view is the spotted dog lifting his leg against the wall over there. Saturday nights, I haul out the town drunks. I get their 25-cent dinners and their rotgut liquor heaved up over the front of my one good shirt. I wear three pounds of iron strapped to my leg. That makes me fair game for any punk cowboy who's had one too many. No, Jess, I don't need a wife. I need out.
Jessie: That soldier would have helped you and you know it.::John Russell: I didn't ask for any.::Jessie: He didn't even have a gun.::John Russell: That's his business he don't wanna carry one.::Jessie: It takes a lot to light a fire under you, doesn't it.::John Russell: If it's alright with you, lady, I just didn't feel like bleeding for him. And even if it isn't alright with you.
Doris Blake: I've heard a lot of stories about what the Indians do to white women.::Grimes: They do the same thing to white women they do to Indian women, and they don't mind it much, red or white.