“I'd hate to say anything good about that long-winded jackanapes, but...” – Jim Bowie, The Alamo ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from The Alamo 1960

Jim Bowie Richard Widmark

I'd hate to say anything good about that long-winded jackanapes, but he does know the short way to start a war.

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Gen. Sam Houston Travis, I've never been able to like you. But you are one of the very few men I would trust with the life of Texas. Gen. Sam Houston I hope they remember. I hope Texas remembers. Bowies' man: What are we doing here. I volunteered to fight, not build no fort. Why are we building a fort? Col. Bowie Because Houston told Travis, and Travis told m, and I'm tellin' you.