Gunsmoke (1953)

Jack Kelly: Curly Mather

Quotes 

• Curly Mather : I've been watching you two. I don't like what I see.

  Rita : Maybe you better stop looking.

• [Curly and Reb have a final confrontation] 

  Reb Kittredge : Then get out of camp!

  Curly Mather : I'll leave when I'm ready.

  Reb Kittredge : You'll leave right now!

  Curly Mather : I reckon that's a choice I'll make for myself.

  Reb Kittredge : The only choice you've got is how you'll go -- either riding on a horse or feet first.

  Curly Mather : You've been twirling a pretty big rope ever since you came here. Maybe it's time someone took the slack out of your rope.

  Reb Kittredge : Anytime you're ready.

• Curly Mather : You're pretty tough with that gun strapped around your waist. I wonder how tough you'd be without it.

  Reb Kittredge : You ain't never going to find out, Curly. I'm never going to take it off.

• Rita : How are you getting along with Kittredge?

  Curly Mather : I can take him or leave him alone. If given the chance, I'd leave him alone.