Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Golden Calf (1959)

Macdonald Carey: Brother Bent

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• Brother Bent : Rode a trail many times up and down in these parts. Suffice you'd trust your herd to a man who failed his flock.

• Brother Bent : The Devil. Do you know the Devil?

  Rowdy Yates : You talk like you've seen him, Brother Bent?

  Brother Bent : He had no shape or form but he had a name. GREED! It's a plague that corrupts the human heart. It spreads like the flood, nay, like the pestilence. You breathe it in, catch it from one another. Greed, that's what drove me from that town.

• Pete Nolan : You reading from the Good Book for breakfast, Brother Bent?

  Brother Bent : The soul needs feeding too, son.

• Brother Bent : Awful jittery.

  Gil Favor : They're all jittery.

  Rowdy Yates : We had a little thunder last night.

  Brother Bent : That one seems to be a real troublemaker. That why you wanted him cut out, Mr Favor?

  Gil Favor : MUSHY! You and Brother Bent slaughter him up. We'll eat steak for a while.

  Mushy : All right. Let's get it done, Brother Bent.

• Rowdy Yates : What's he? A preacher?

  Brother Bent : I'm a servant of God, yes.

  Wishbone : Preacher or undertaker? Which?

  Rowdy Yates : He's a preacher, Wish.

  Gil Favor : Where're you heading?

  Brother Bent : Nowhere.

  Gil Favor : Couple more hours in this sun and you'll get there.

• Brother Bent : I like you, Flagg, that's why I'll never tell you. I refuse to be the instrument for poisoning your soul.

• Brother Bent : Is there one among you who knows what day it is?

  Pete Nolan : Independence Day?

• Brother Bent : These people have sinned a great sin and it made them gods of gold. Oh you who are the lifeline of this growing nation, close your eyes to the sins of the golden calf. Let your rewards be your own accomplishments. Amen.

• Brother Bent : God's gold must be earned with sweat and toil. But the Devil's gold can be taken as easily as Adam plucked the apple from the tree of knowledge. There was gold lying about in chunks and nuggets about the size of a man's fist, right up there in the hills above my town.

  Flagg : Is it still lying around up there?

• Brother Bent : I said put up everything. What you got in your pockets, Wishbone, yo do me the honour.

  Wishbone : Well, I'll be toasted on a spit. The Ace of Spades.

  Brother Bent : So it is, I guess the fates just didn't want you to know the name of that place. The Lord taketh away and the Lord give it back.

  Wishbone : Brother Bent, when Quince asked you how come you were gambling, you said it was for a good cause. What cause.

  Brother Bent : The cause of proving to you the evils and dangers of gambling. What I really did was deliver a sermon with the aid of 52 assistants.