The Searchers Page #4
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- 1956
- 119 min
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DEBBIE:
Oh! LOOK! My gold locket!
She holds it high for mother -- and all -- to see. Martha
takes it and reacts at its weight.
MARTHA:
It's solid gold...Ethan, I don't
think she's old enough...
ETHAN:
Let her keep it...Just something I
picked up in Mexico.
Martha reluctantly surrenders it to Debbie's eager hand.
Aaron hasn't missed the word "Mexico" and looks sharply
at Ethan.
DEBBIE:
LUCY:
(to Debbie)
Come along...
The two girls leave the main room. Martha and Aaron both
look at Ethan -- half expecting some further explanation.
He turns from them and looks into the fire. Martha begins
to clear the table. Aaron gets up, takes a pipe and a
spill -- lights it at the fire.
ETHAN:
Passed the Todd place comin' in...
What happened to 'em?
AARON:
They gave up...went back to the
cotton rows...So'd the Jamisons...
Without Martha, I don't know...She
wouldn't let a man quit.
Ethan turns and looks at her -- still busy with her dishes.
AARON:
(change of tone)
Ethan, I could see it in you before
the war...
(Ethan looks at him)
Martha freezes in what she's doing -- listening.
AARON:
And you stayed out beyond all need
to...WHY?
Ethan can't answer, but he takes it as a challenge and
almost welcomes it.
ETHAN:
(hard)
You askin' me to clear out now?
AARON:
(straightening -- with
grave dignity)
You're my brother...You're welcome
to stay as long as you got a mind
to...Ain't that so, Martha?
MARTHA:
(almost a whisper)
Of course he is.
ETHAN:
I expect to pay my own way...
Martha resumes her activity. Ethan crosses to his pack,
reaches into it for a leather pouch, brings it back and
tosses it onto the table. It lands with a resonant clink.
Both Martha and Aaron draw close to the table.
(NOTE TO WINTON HOCH: This scene should be dramatically
back-lighted.)
ETHAN:
There's sixty double eagles in
there...twelve-hundred dollars.
He opens a waistline shirt button and hauls out a leather
money belt and drops that on the table.
ETHAN:
An' twice that in here.
He reaches into the belt and takes out a few mint-fresh
gold pieces which he slides across the table.
ETHAN:
...only these got the late
Emperor Maximilian's picture on
'em.
Martha picks up one of the gold pieces, staring at the
face on the coin: the same as that on the medal -- staring
sharply then at Ethan. Aaron is examining another coin
with a different interest.
AARON:
Mint fresh...not a mark on 'em.
He glances questioningly at Ethan.
ETHAN:
So?
Aaron shrugs and crosses to a barrel chair. He raises the
seat and lifts out a pair of old boots, some rags of
clothing and then raises a false-bottom lid and drops
pouch and money belt into it. Carefully he replaces
everything. During this Ethan's attention has gone to
Martha's hand, to one cut finger, its wound barely
healed. He takes the hand -- gently.
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