Langdon Towne Quotes in Northwest Passage (1940)

[last lines]

Elizabeth Browne: [standing alongside Langdon Towne as Major Robert Rogers and his rangers march into the distance] Is there, Langdon? Is there a Northwest Passage?

Langdon Towne: Who knows.

[pause]

Langdon Towne: It's every man's dream to find a short route to his heart's desire. If the major dreams long enough, he'll find it.

Elizabeth Browne: Will we hear from him?

Langdon Towne: Hear from him?

[pause]

Langdon Towne: Every time we look across the river we'll hear his voice calling us through the wind. He'll be within us, Elizabeth - wherever we are or he may be - for that man will never die.

Maj. Robert Rogers: [referring to Langdon's abdominal wound] Are ypu hurt bad?

Langdon Towne: First thing I've had in my stomach in days.

Langdon Towne: [Slapping at mosquitoes as they walk through wetlands] Mosquitoes don't bite you, do they?

Hunk Marriner: Nope.

Langdon Towne: You put something on that keeps them off?

Hunk Marriner: Rancid bear grease. They hate the stink worse than I do.

Langdon Towne: [Smelling some of the bear grease that Hunk offers him] thanks. I'll take the mosquitoes.

Langdon Towne: What did he have in the sack?

Maj. Robert Rogers: [pause] The head of an Abenaki indian.

Lt. Crofton: [giving away his share of parched corn] If you fellows were smart, you wouldn't have to eat corn!

[scurries away laughing]

Langdon Towne: [limps into camp on a crutch] Food? Where's the food?

Hunk Marriner: Langdon!

[runs towards him]

Hunk Marriner: You're just in time for a little corn with the rest of us roosters!

Cap Huff: [to Langton] If you're tryin' to drink yourself outta lovesickness, why don't you switch to rum? We've got some rum that'll burn the knots out of a pine plank.

Langdon Towne: [Drunkenly] Bring 'em me.