Maureen O'Hara's Great Line

It has been said that no movie takes longer to get John Wayne into the story than "Big Jake."

But before he arrives, things are set up quite nicely:

Amiable sadist Richard Boone leads his gang of non-amiable sadists on the property of rich Maureen O'Hara and they commence to killing men, women, and children en route to kidnapping her grandson.

Then law enforcement gathers to volunteer to track Boone, gang and child hostage down.

But O'Hara thinks better of that, thanks them for their help and suggests someone else might be better equipped for the task:

Says O'Hara:

"It is, I think, going to be a very harsh and unpleasant kind of business, and will, i think, require an extremely harsh and unpleasant kind of man to see to it."

CUT TO:

John Wayne, as O'Hara's estranged husband, Big Jake McCandless, squinting down the barrel of a rifle he is pointing at some varmints about to hang a man and kick his boy. THAT won't be allowed.

And soon Wayne is off to rescue his grandson.

"Big Jake" has a great, fun script partially written by the writers of "Dirty Harry" the same year. Wayne's Big Jake is pretty much an older Harry, and Richard Boone is a dangerous villain, if not quite a psycho at the level of Scorpio in Harry.

But it is great to see Maureen O'Hara back after some time away, great to see her scenes with Wayne...and...

...great to hear her read that great line.