Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Widowed Dove (1959)

Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : The Sedalia Trail is a thousand miles of dust, deep river crossings, and stampedes, a job forgotten by those who wait for their cattle at the end of the drive. But not forgotten by the men in the saddle who bring the cattle through. Like me - Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Rowdy Yates : Then I'm quitting the drive, as of now.

  Gil Favor : Man quits middle of a drive only once. I never take quitters back.

  Rowdy Yates : Well, I quit only once.

  Gil Favor : You make me wish I had a hickory rod.

  Rowdy Yates : Well, you don't need a hickory rod, Mr Favor, you got two good fists. Now, if you think I need a lesson and you're the teacher, go ahead and try.

  Gil Favor : All right, I'll give you your fight. In Sedalia. If your temper is still with you by then. I never fight with my men on the trail.

  Rowdy Yates : Well, I'm not your man any more.

• Rowdy Yates : You're the Law but don't you go roughing me up.

  Gil Favor : There was no call for that, Sheriff.

  Marshal Lindstrom : It's my lookout how I treat my prisoners.

• Clovis Lindstrom : JAIL? You turned him over to Sheriff Lindstrom?

  Gil Favor : On a trumped up charge that will hold him until you're out of town.

  Clovis Lindstrom : You want him killed?

  Gil Favor : A few hours in jail never killed anybody.

  Clovis Lindstrom : Do you know who I am? I'm Lindstrom's wife. His wife. Now you get that boy out of jail before Lindstrom kills him.

• Gil Favor : I also remember you're quicker on words than figuring things out.

• Rowdy Yates : Mister Favor, when you're always riding me, you never say anything good even when I do things right. I don't get sore at that. I realise you're trying to make me do my job better.

  Gil Favor : And be able to step into my boots when the time comes.

  Rowdy Yates : I can take that. I'm even grateful. But this is different.

  Gil Favor : Meaning?

  Rowdy Yates : Meaning it's a personal, private matter. That's what.

• Gil Favor : How much?

  The Undertaker : $20, with the Tombstone, wooden.

  Gil Favor : Name's Billy Grant.

  The Undertaker : Born?

  Gil Favor : Don't know where or when. Just put the name. Put San Anton, Texas. That's where I picke dhim up.

  The Undertaker : It'll be written, not carved.

  Gil Favor : Seems a mighty flimsy way of fixing a head piece. It'll fade in a month.

  The Undertaker : Last just as long as the memory of him.