Opening title card Quotes in Winchester '73 (1950)

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Opening title card Quotes:

  • Opening title card: This is the story of the Winchester Rifle Model 1873, "The gun that won the West." To cowman, outlaw, peace officer or soldier, the Winchester '73 was a treasured possession. An Indian would sell his soul to own one.

  • Opening title card: If sailor tales and sailor tunes, storm and adventure, heat and cold. If schooners, islands and maroons and buccaneers and buried gold, and all the old romance retold exactly in the ancient way can please as me they pleased of old the wiser youngsters of today... So be it!

  • Opening Title Card: BARRANCA Port of call for the South American banana boats

  • Opening Title Card: Below the Equator, amongst those distant isles where the shadow of the white man's civilization is but a rumour, force and war still play their parts in the wooing of a maiden. Men of one island, like their fathers before them, still raid their neighbors when in search of wives.

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    Opening Title Card: In 1660 Charles II was restored to the English Throne ending 11 years of Oliver Cromwell's bleak Puritan rule. Thus began the age of Restoration. It was an era of scientific discovery, artistic exploration and luxurious sensuality.

    Opening Title Card: It was also a time of natural disasters and archaic medical practices. Science was pitted against superstition. This is the story of one man's journey through the light and dark of those times.

  • Opening Title Card: This is a true story. Kinda.

  • Opening Title Card: THIS IS NEW YORK - Skyscraper Champion of the World... where Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other... and where Truth, crushed to earth rises again more phony than a glass eye...

  • Opening Title Card: In October of 1998, four sorority sisters disappeared in the woods near Bareasseville, Delaware while shooting a documentary. A week later their footage was found.

  • [opening title card]: At 600KM above planet Earth the temperature fluctuates between +258 and -148 degrees Fahrenheit. There is nothing to carry sound. No air pressure. No oxygen. Life in space is impossible.

  • Opening Title Card: "A woman's chastity is a sty in the Devil's eye" IRISH PROVERB

  • Opening Title Card: Every small town has its small town band with big town ideas.

  • Opening Title Card: IMPERIAL RUSSIA - The St. Petersburg road from Gatchina - a road often traveled by the gay young officers of the Czar...

  • Opening Title Card: In the grim comedy of life, it has been wisely said that the last laugh is the best...

  • Opening Title Card: The coral atolls of the South Pacific... for happy centuries the last remnant of an earthly paradise... Islets "fresh from the touch of God"... Memories that lingered from the Morning of Creation... But the white man, in his greedy trek across the planet, cast his withering shadow over these islands... and the business of "civilizing" them to his interests began...

  • [opening title card]: The revolution is not a social dinner, a literary event, a drawing or an embroidery; it cannot be done with... elegance and courtesy. The revolution is an act of violence... -Mao Tse-tung

  • Opening title card: Desperate for men during the last days of the War Between the States, the South found it necesssary to offer pardons to outlaws to carry out special assignments. Strange dark figures rode under the flag of the Confederacy.

  • Opening title card: The West was opened by courageous trail-blazing pioneers like Lewis & Clark and Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly - trapper, surveyor and Indian scout who was the first frontiersman to cross the mighty Yellowstone Valley.

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