Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident at Alabaster Plain (1959)

Clint Eastwood: Rowdy Yates

Quotes 

• Pete Nolan : I saw what I saw.

  Rowdy Yates : What do you mean: You saw what you saw?

  Pete Nolan : And I heard what I heard.

  Rowdy Yates : You and your friend, Buzz, the way I took it, you were prisoners of war, right?

  Rowdy Yates : That's right.

  Pete Nolan : Did you get took after a battle or before?

  Rowdy Yates : You gonna walk away from here?

  Pete Nolan : Nope.

  Rowdy Yates : My friend Buzz and I spent a lot of time underground. You understand? Yankee Territorial Prison at Yuma, Arizona. No one comes out of there seeing too good.

• Gil Favor : [a scene in which most of the men, Wish excluded, are topless as they wash, bathe and shave in preparation for the wedding party]  He's a fast gun and he's not for you. And all he said was he was gonna visit.

  Rowdy Yates : You just gonna stand back if he comes in?

  Gil Favor : That's right.

  Rowdy Yates : Mr Favor, I don't think you're as smart as I think you are.

  Gil Favor : What was that?

• Buzz Travis : ROWDY! YAHOO! What do you do!

  Rowdy Yates : What are you doing here, you crazy beanbag?

  Buzz Travis : I got clean away. You think I was gonna get killed?

  Rowdy Yates : We heard the shot and we thought they had ya.

  Buzz Travis : We went through those Union lines like a stung deer. How's Benny and Richards?

  Rowdy Yates : Aw, they got a place up in Kansas somewhere.

  Buzz Travis : ROWDY! DOGGONE! Hey, I want you to meet my bride. Honey, I want you to meet the best friend I ever had. Why, you wouldn't believe what we been through together. My wife, Rowdy Yates.

  Varbena Cardin : How do you do.

  Rowdy Yates : Glad to meet you, Ma'am.

  Buzz Travis : We were corporals together in the Confederate Army.

• Pete Nolan : What a place for God to stake out a claim.

  Gil Favor : Right here in the middle of nowhere.

  Rowdy Yates : How'd they get it here? There's nothing for miles.

  Pete Nolan : You know what I figure. I think maybe the Good Lord just had a long rope with a hook on it and just lowered it down.

• Rowdy Yates : [Last Scene]  Did I show you this, Pete?

  Pete Nolan : No.

  Rowdy Yates : Solid silver inlaid in ebony. Must have cost a lot of money.

  Pete Nolan : It's a rattlesnake. How do you like that.

  Rowdy Yates : I've seen more men engrave their initials on guns but never anything like that.

  Gil Favor : Rowdy!

  Rowdy Yates : Yessir!

  Gil Favor : Tell him about it tonight in your own time. Get back in the cattle business, mister. We got a herd to push!