QUESTION: Does anyone have a link to the "I SAY THIS: THAT I BELIEVE" speech from "The Alamo" 1960.

[Yosemitest]

I'm looking for the text of "John Dierkes" character "Jocko Robertson" speech in the long version of the 1960 "The Alamo" with John Wayne.
His speech is about 140 minutes into the movie.
It starts with
"I say this: THAT I BELIEVE"
and he talks about faith in God and the inability to convince those who do NOT BELIEVE in God.

[Errant]

What would John Wayne Do?

[Errant]

John Wayne and the Pledge of Allegiance

[Errant]

Wasn’t the character’s wife the one who made the speech?

[BenLurkin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PtB-Y8-nsM

[Yosemitest]

Thanks, but that wasn't it. I like the speech on "The Republic," though.

It starts with

"I say this: THAT I BELIEVE"

I believe that same speech was earlier used it the movie "The Big Trail" by actor "John Dierkes".

[Yosemitest]

No, I just watched it on Directv.
"Denver Pyle" actually starts the scene.
It's right after Jocko's wife leaves with the rest of the women and children, before the final attack.

[Springfield Reformer]

Jocko :

I say this : I believe. I can never find a way to argue down you that don’t believe, but I believe in the Lord God Almighty, all knowing and all forgiving. [Music.] And I believe that Good shall be triumphant in the end and that evil shall be vanquished. I believe in a hereafter.

From here:

http://johnwayne-thealamo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=43

[Walvoord]

You got it. I was just working on it. I also like Jacko’s wife’s speech, “I may be blind, but I’m just as good as any woman in Texas.”

So many great speeches in that movie.

[Springfield Reformer]

My personal favorite good-vs-evil movie speech is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEMdXhfO-Wk

[Errant]

One of my favorites:

Brave heart speech :)

[Errant]

300 Final Scene and Speech

O Lord, what wrath socialism hath bestowed upon once mighty Greece...

[Yosemitest]

Thanks.
THAT'S IT.

Thimblerig: What are you thinking, Davy ?

Crockett: not thinkin’. Just rememberin’.

(Below, around a campfire.)

Beekeeper: Well, I sure done a heap of things I shouldnv’ done.

Seemed urgent at the moment…
Got myself a heap of sins to answer for.
Wish it weren’t that biga…
I reckon old Saint Pete’s gonna come and slam them Pearly Gates right smack-dab in my face.


The Atheist: There ain’t no Pearly Gates.

When you’re dead, you’re meat for the worms,
that’s all there is to it.


Beekeeper: You mean you don’t believe in no afterlife, no hereafter ?…

The Atheist: Tales for children.

Bunkum and bosh !.



[Uncut version : (02:52:14)

The Fanatic, standing up & brandishing a stick: ‘Man could get himself tarred and feathered for sayin’ that back where I come from !

I’ll have you to know that I’m a fully immersed member of the first church of King’s Crossing.
Don’t come on beein’ King’s creek cause the Jordan wasn’ nearby.
And I believe in hell firing brimstone and the Pearly Gates
and the cloud and harp for them has lived good,
and Hell and Purgatory for them that ain’t,
and I can whip the man that says there ain’t no hereafter !


Bob: Friend, I think you said about enough,

because this here’s a high-class discussion…
if discussion means what I think it do ?


“It do”: It do.

Bull: Yeah, it do.

Bob: And I think you’d better sit down,

cause there ain’t gonna be no fighting — just discussing.]


Jocko: I say this :
I believe.
I can never find a way to argue down you that don’t believe,
but I believe in the Lord God Almighty,
all knowing and all forgiving.
[Music.]
And I believe that Good shall be triumphant in the end
and that evil shall be vanquished.
I believe in a hereafter.


Bob: Me, too.

I figure a man’s got to believe in those things,
does he want to believe in the good things about man —
about his very own self —


[Green Leaves…]


the real good things,
like courage, honesty… and love.


(Travis is listening thoughtfully to that “rabble”.)

[Yosemitest]

here ya' go:

(Dickinsons’ door-step – Music : Green Leaves of Summer.)

Travis: Sue, you’d better hurry.

Dickison: She won’t go.

Susannah: Save your breath, Will — your ever so persuasive breath.

Dickinson, to Travis: Alright, say it: it’s a sorry man that can’t make his wife obey.

Travis: You seem to forget, Dick, that I am too married.

[Music: Tennessee Babe.]

Susannah, to her husband: I’ve got to do what I think is the right thing.
I’m a soldier’s wife. My child is a soldier’s child.

(To Travis, Smile We’ll stay.)

Travis: Very well, Sue. Dick…

Susannah, to Dick: Don’t be angry with me.

Dickinson: I’m not angry. I’m proud.

(Travis joins Crockett & Bowie on the front gate’s stairway.)

Travis: Dick, take your patrol.

Dickinson: Yes, sir.

Travis: Married men, return to your posts !
Open the gate !
Captain Dickinson !…

Dickinson: Escort ! Forward ! Yo-ho !

[Music: Green leaves of Summer]

Finn, to a woman on a cart: Ma’am, I ain’t got no woman to say goodbye to.
Could I tell you goodbye ?

The woman, handing her hand: Surely.

Old woman driving the cart: Get up boy ! Yah !

Another old woman at the reins of another cart: Jocko, Nell, it’s time.

Nell: Go on, Jocko. Do the best you can.

Jocko, looking at his departing blind wife & their children: I can’t… I can’t.
I just can’t do it, fellas.

Travis: Colonel Bowie, this is a request and not an order.
But I suggest that as desperate as our needs are, that family’s needs are more desperate.

Bowie: Get in that line, Jocko, and move out with your people.

Jocko: You can see how it is.
It’s more than a man can bear.
She’s never said a word of pity for herself in the ten years she’s been blind…

Nell, coming behind him: Will Travis ! Just who do you think you are ?

Travis: Mrs. Robertson, I can assure you that no blame will attach itself to your husband. Bowie: Get moving, Jocko,
or I’ll help you along with the toe of my boot.

Nell: Shut up, Jim Bowie !
And you and Travis listen close.
My man ain’t goin’ out !
He’s just as much a man as either one of you, and maybe more !
In spite of he ain’t rich like you, Jim, or fancy educated like you, Will Travis.
Now, Jocko, you get back up on that wall,
‘cause you’re just as good as any man that ever trod leather, and it’s your right !
And I can’t see, but I’m just as good as any woman in Texas, and it’s my right to go and leave you.
Now we’ve cuddled nice and… said all our goodbyes but…
I’ll say it again.
We’d be fools not to face it :
you’re likely to go and get yourself killed in this battle and…
I don’t know what you’re going to say going through the gates of heaven,
but I’m gonna say that no woman ever lived had herself a better husband than you’ve been to me.
Now go on !

(Cart departs. Spontaneous triple cheer. Music : Green Leaves of Summer, accordion & guitar.)