Villa Rides (1968)

Robert Mitchum: Lee Arnold

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Quotes 

• Urbina : You, gringo.

  [waves for Lee to follow] 

  Lee Arnold : Who, me?

  Urbina : Do you see any other gringos around here?

• Lee Arnold : You mean he was here in time to stop this?

  Urbina : Well, you see, it is like this: the people, they love my General, and they love Mexico... But they did not hate her enemies enough to fight. And now they do.

• Lee Arnold : After all you've been through, you still believe that he's for the people?

  Fina : He's a good man.

  Lee Arnold : How 'bout me? Am I good man, too?

  Fina : Yes.

  Lee Arnold : Well, I'll tell you one thing, honey: I'm as good a man as Villa, and that's not saying a hell of a lot for either one of us.

• Girl in restaurant : I want you to know that I've never been so humiliated in all my life. To leave me here, sitting alone... And in front of all El Paso!

  Lee Arnold : Why don't you do me a favor, will you? Just shut up.

  [to waiter] 

  Lee Arnold : May I have the check, please?

• Client in barber shop : Pretty funny games they play down there, huh?

  Lee Arnold : What about Villa? Did you hear anything about him?

  Client in barber shop : Yeah... Yeah, he escaped from jail in Mexico City. Huerta has practically his entire army looking for him. Must want him pretty bad, huh?

  Lee Arnold : Yeah, I guess he does.

  Client in barber shop : Hey, Lee. Is this 'Villa' a friend of yours?

  Lee Arnold : Yeah, I know him.

• Pancho Villa : [Lee is preparing to take off]  Wait. Fiero is going with you.

  Lee Arnold : What? Now wait a minute, Chief. Not with... Chief, it's tough enough up there as it is.

  Pancho Villa : No, if you go up there alone, you could fly away. If you try that with Fiero... Fiero will shoot you.

  Lee Arnold : Oh? And without a pilot, what's Fiero gonna do?

  Pancho Villa : Fiero will shoot you.

  Lee Arnold : [thinks, and then grimaces] 

• Lee Arnold : I'll fly for you, but I want something.

  Pancho Villa : What?

  Lee Arnold : [motions to Fierro]  I want to blow his brains out.

  Pancho Villa : I don't think he'll let you do that.

  Lee Arnold : Well, then let these men go.

  Pancho Villa : All right. How many?

  Lee Arnold : How man... all of them! Their officers are dead; they can't hurt you; they don't want to fight any more.

  Pancho Villa : No. Just one.

  Lee Arnold : One?

  Pancho Villa : One. Pick him! Go on, gringo. It's your chance to save one life. Go ahead.

  Lee Arnold : [to Fierro]  You pick him.

  Rodolfo Fierro : [to guards]  Let one go!

  [they watch as one Colorado vaults the wall] 

• Lee Arnold : Well, what about me, chief? What about me? I'm one of your men too, right? Something happens to you, they may as well shoot me. I'm deprived of twenty years of my liberty. I've got nothing. I've got no plane, no money... I wind up with nothing.

  Pancho Villa : Gringo, you never did have anything. You have lived just for yourself. Not for a cause, not even for a woman.