Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Golden Calf (1959)

Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : Breeding ground of the cattle is the southern tip of Texas, and the markets are over a thousand miles away. A day's drive on the Sedalia Trail is eight, ten miles at the most. Fine and easy when the prairie grass is fresh and the river's wet. But you have to keep goin' when the grasses are parched, when the water has disappeared under the drought. That's when the cows become skittish, hard to manage. Nobody takes his boots off as long as it lasts. The last one to take his boots off is me - Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Pete Nolan : There's a man sitting up there all alone.

  Gil Favor : In this heat.

  Pete Nolan : Yes. No horse anywhere.

  Gil Favor : Oh.

  Pete Nolan : He's all decked out in one of those black frock coats.

  Gil Favor : You talk to him?

  Pete Nolan : No, I didn't. Could be a decoy. Indians pull stunts like that.

  Gil Favor : This I gotta see.

• 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.

• Gil Favor : Looking for a stray.

  Mushy : Mr Favor.

  Gil Favor : Seems I found him.

  Mushy : I changed my mind, Mr Favor, I came back. They was robbing you when I rode up. I tried to yell.

  Clint Crowley : Shut up.

  Gil Favor : You took your money back, Crowley. That cancels our deal.

  Clint Crowley : Just like that.

  Gil Favor : I'm taking my herd back.

• Flagg : Mr Favor.

  Gil Favor : The gold?

  Flagg : Greed is a man's ruination, truest words Brother Ben ever spoke.

  Rowdy Yates : No gold in these hills, huh?

  Flagg : No gold. No hills.

• Gil Favor : When they see us on the move, they'll be on the move. We'll be waiting for them and we'll pick the spot. They can either fight us or pass us. The choice is up to them.

• Gil Favor : Well, they've got one less advantage now, we know they're there. And figuring the same way, we got one more advantage, they don't know we know.

• Gil Favor : You lose your hands, you lose your herd, and you lose your money. How do you explain it to the people that trusted you.

• Gil Favor : That's the way vultures do business.