Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Champagne Bottles (1960)

Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

Quotes 

• Rowdy Yates : What's the trouble?

  Pete Nolan : There ain't none. Land's as flat as the palm of your hand, it's well watered and green.

  Gil Favor : Stop it, Pete. You're breaking Rowdy's heart.

  Rowdy Yates : Well, I dunno. It just ain't natural, everything going so easy.

• Gil Favor : I keep lookin' at them, the herd and the drovers. Which is more important? Beeves are worth $20 a head when we get to Sedalia, Missouri. And the drovers? I can't sell 'em. Most of 'em won't be here when we get to Sedalia. It's a thing I get to thinking of on a drive. Who's worth more? Cattle or drovers who get 'em there. And I'm one of the drovers. My name's Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Rowdy Yates : The wrong one's wearing the pants in the Parker family.

  Gil Favor : It's the nitro that bothers me, not the pants.

• Gil Favor : What happens when we get to Benton's Crossing?

  Susan Parker : Someone's waiting with a barge. I don't know what happens to you when we get there.

• Gil Favor : I don't get it. Stealing a load of nitroglycerine, switching it into champagne bottles, carting it all over the country. Sure doesn't seem like the way you like to do things.

  Matt Holden : And how do you figure I'd do things?

  Gil Favor : Hit fast, get away fast. Stagecoaches, banks.

  Matt Holden : You're right. You get the money that way. Not the other thing.

  Gil Favor : What other things?

  [Matt looks back at Mrs Parker] 

• Susan Parker : Money's only the beginning. I want power and possession.

  Gil Favor : Holden's a pretty big price to pay for it.

• Pete Nolan : We saw the explosion and figured you'd opened another bottle.

  Gil Favor : Yeah, that champagne is pretty heady stuff.