Matewan (1987) · 15 quotes
Most-quoted character in Matewan (1987): in 5 of its 15 quotes
A line from Joe KenehanFellas, we're in a hole full of coal gas here. The tiniest spark at the wrong time is going to be the end of us. So we got to pick away at this situation, slow and careful. We got to organize and build support. We got to work together. Together! Till they can't get their coal out of the ground without us cause we're a union! Cause we're the workers damn it and we take care of each other!
Joe Kenehan You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club! They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world - them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you get to know about the enemy.
Joe Kenehan When do we get to Matewan?
You don't want to go there, mister. Ain't nothing but crazy people.
C. E. Lively Who wrote The Iron Hand?
Joe Kenehan Jack London.
Sephus Where's Joe Hill buried at?
Joe Kenehan All over the world. They scattered his ashes.
C. E. Lively Which eye is Big Bill Haywood missing?
Joe Kenehan His right one.
C. E. Lively How'd Frank Little die?
Joe Kenehan Butte, Montana ... they hung him from a railroad trestle.
Conklin
John Laroche
Sheriff Sam Deeds
Douglas Boi
Colonel Frank Fitts
Neil Craig
Smokey
Lieutenant Gerke
