Daily Dialogue — September 28, 2019

Zeke: Listen, kid. Are you gonna try and let that old Gulch heifer try and buffalo ya’? She ain’t nothing to be afraid of. Have a little courage, that’s all.
Dorothy: I’m not afraid of her.
Zeke: Well then, next time she squawks, walk right up to her and spit in her eye. That’s what I’d do.

— The Wizard of Oz (1939), screenplay by Noel Langley & Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, adaptation by Noel Langley, book by L. Frank Baum

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Farm.

Trivia: A list of uncredited writers on the movie’s script: Arthur Freed, Irving Brecher, William H. Cannon, Herbert Fields, Jack Haley, E.Y. Harburg, Samuel Hoffenstein, Bert Lahr, John Lee Mahin, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jack Mintz, Ogden Nash, Robert Pirosh, George Seaton, Sid Silvers.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This scene illustrates how out of her element Dorothy is in this Kansas farm.