Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Blue Fire (1959)

Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : Old timers always say, 'It doesn't storm like it used to.' When you're on a trail drive, you get on intimate terms with the weather. You're away from home maybe eight, nine months, and you may not sleep under a roof the whole time. Rain, sleet, snow - whatever it has to offer, it's part of the job, my job. Gil Favor's the name, trail boss.

• Rowdy Yates : [the beeves are unsettled]  Don't you think I know how?

  Gil Favor : You ever been in a bog run?

  Rowdy Yates : Well, yeah, you know I haven't.

  Gil Favor : Well, you try it. Maybe tonight. Now just keep on singing to 'em, sweet and low, just enough to let them know you're there. Lika a lullaby.

• Gil Favor : And how'd you spot the troublemaker?

  Rowdy Yates : Well, he was the first one on his feet. He was the troublemaker all right.

  Gil Favor : You're not as smart as I thought you was. You should have cut him out of the herd straightaway, taken him downwind, cut his throat. But, outside of that, good work.

  [Rowdy is confused by the back-handed half-compliment from his Boss] 

• Lucky Markley : 30 something head. I ain't counted 'em lately.

  Gil Favor : Where did you get 'em?

  Lucky Markley : Out of the brush.

  Gil Favor : Whose brush?

  Lucky Markley : Mr Favor, my loop's regulation size, but my temperature ain't.

• Teddy : Well, when you're dealing with beeves you need to be lucky.

  Lucky Markley : Somebody call me?

  Gil Favor : I hardly think so. We don't rightly know what to call you.

  Lucky Markley : Oh, Lucky Marley. 'Cos the Lucky is just a nickname, mostly because I never had much myself. You know what I mean?

  Gil Favor : No, don't know what you mean.

  Lucky Markley : Well, luck, I always seem to bring it to folks. Well, like I brung it to you. And the running stopped.

  Rowdy Yates : I did that!

• Pete Nolan : [the interpreter]  There they are, Mr Favor. If we give them 10 steers, rifles, sugar, coffee, tobacco

  Gil Favor : Tell him to blow it up his elbow.

  Pete Nolan : That's kind of rough inside.

  Gil Favor : What does he say to that?

  Pete Nolan : He's telling me in detail how he's gonna cut us up. I don't know where they get all them ideas.

• Rowdy Yates : What about the Comanches then?

  Gil Favor : If they're coming, they'll come. We've got enough to worry about with this herd. So let's get to it.

• Rowdy Yates : If I did something wrong I'd like to be told about it.

  Gil Favor : If I told you every time you did something wrong, we'd still be in San Antone.

• Gil Favor : Those scrawny slab-sighted no-good scrub cows!

  Lucky Markley : They're that bad, huh?

  Gil Favor : Worse, wild, troublemakers. I've got enough troublemakers as it is.

  Lucky Markley : Well, all right then. Just let me go along with you to the next town.

  Gil Favor : You must've spent 2, 3 months hard work rounding up that bunch.

  Lucky Markley : My hard luck.

  Gil Favor : All right. Let's have it. Why are you so almighty anxious to get away from here?

  Lucky Markley : Comanches.