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Potter: Going west in a covered wagon. That's my kind of life. Blazing new frontiers, facing danger, privation, and death. Is *that* my kind of life?
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Potter: Brave men run in my family.
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Potter: Indian country. Do we have to go that way?
Calamity Jane: Now Painless, I'll be with you. You're not afraid, are you?
Potter: No. I can always get another scalp.
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Potter: [draws his guns] I hope they're loaded. I wish I was, too.
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Potter: That's Indian country out there!
Calamity Jane: You're not afraid of a few Indians, are you?
Potter: It's not the Indians I'm afraid of. It's their attitudes.
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Potter: Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, I'd like to say a few words.
Pioneer: Oh, let's get out of here before them redskins come back.
Potter: Those are the words!
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Potter: There's a million Indians out here against one coward!
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Potter: I've been chased by women before, but never when I was awake!
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Bob Hope brings his own brand of laughing gas to the Wild West as a would-be "painless" dentist lassoed into marrying Jane Russell. She's a shapely outlaw turned undercover agent on the trail of some varmints selling guns to a hostile Indian tribe, and he's her unwitting cover. Hope cowers and cracks self-effacing jokes while bodies fall around him ("Brave men run in my family," he quips, then runs), but he's even funnier swaggering and sneering like a kid playing cowboy in a flamboyant costume apparently stolen from the Oklahoma! road show. The Paleface is one of his best films, and the unflappable Russell is a great match. Theme song "Buttons and Bows" (which Hope delivers with a clowning mock twang) won an Oscar®, and the 1948 film spawned a sequel (Son of Paleface, costarring Roy Rogers and Trigger) and a remake (The Shakiest Gun in the West with Don Knotts). --Sean Axmaker
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