The Capture of Grizzly Adams (1982 TV Movie)

Dan Haggerty: James 'Grizzly' Adams

Quotes 

• Kate Brady : You really do care. You like helping people, don't you?

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : Well, when you come to think about it, all that a person has is other folks. And I reckon there's a lot of folks in these parts that could use a helping hand.

• Peg Adams : [at the rope bridge over the rapids]  Pa, get away from him!

  Frank Briggs : [mockingly]  Yeah papa, get back, Papa!

  [beat] 

  Frank Briggs : Go ahead, Adams! Run again!

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : Not this time, Briggs! A man like you has got to be stopped!

• Bert Woolman : Hey Adams! Not bad for a greenhorn!

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : [happily]  Bert! Bert, here all this time I thought you were just about dead.

  Bert Woolman : Any more of that widows' homebrew medicine, I just might have been!

• Bert Woolman : [wakes up in bed for the first time after being rescued]  Adams.

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : Take it easy now, Bert.

  Bert Woolman : I was coming to see you. It's about your sister.

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : What's wrong with her?

  Bert Woolman : She come down with the lung fever.

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : Cora?

  Bert Woolman : James, she's dead. It happened last week... she went real quick.

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : Where's Peg?

  Bert Woolman : Well now, she's up to the sheriff's house. He's lookin' after her, till the stage gets here, then he's shipping her off to the orphan farm.

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : I've got to go get her.

  Bert Woolman : Now don't you go after that girl, or the sheriff'll get you for sure.

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : I gotta take that chance, Bert.

• Frank Briggs : [at the rope bridge over the rapids]  Don't you ever get tired of running, Adams?

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : Don't you get tired of killing, Briggs?

  [Briggs laughs manically] 

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : I know you were the one who killed Ferguson! I didn't know it for sure until the trial. There's just too much pure hate inside of you!

  Frank Briggs : [laughing]  Pure hate! Yeah!

  James 'Grizzly' Adams : You broke up my family! You took everything away from me that meant anything! Why would you do that?

  Frank Briggs : Why? 'Cause you were there! You were handy!