The Castaway Cowboy (1974)

Vera Miles: Henrietta MacAvoy

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• Henrietta MacAvoy : Mr. Bryson tells me it's impossible to load cattle onto boats in these waters.

  Calvin Bryson : It was tried once on the big island. Two ships ran on reefs, and there's no anchorage further out.

  Lincoln Costain : Don't they have docks in Alleah?

  Calvin Bryson : Never needed them."

  Lincoln Costain : Well how do they load then?

  Calvin Bryson : Mostly by long boat. Can you imagine trying to load cattle by long boat?

  Lincoln Costain : Well, there's got to be a way, there always is, it's just a matter of finding it.

  Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Mr. Costain says there ain't never been a horse that ain't been rode and there ain't never been a rider that ain't been throwed.

  Calvin Bryson : Is that what he says? Well, I won't challenge the statement but I will the grammar.

  Lincoln Costain : Grammar never was my strong suit.

  Calvin Bryson : Young man you are sprouting up like a weed.

  Lincoln Costain : At least he's got good rock candy.

• Henrietta MacAvoy : Yes, it's true they do like their fun.

  Lincoln Costain : They'd rather giggle than laugh, they'd rather laugh than eat they're like a bunch of kids out there. A school girl would be more sober mam'm.

• Lincoln Costain : What is it boy? What's the matter?

  Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : It's one of the animals, a big one. He's eatin' up the vegetables again.

  Henrietta MacAvoy : Get out of there. Get out of my garden, do you hear me? Get out!

  Lincoln Costain : One of the animals, woe doggey, you didn't tell me you had cattle around here, Button

  Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Booton. We don't that thing's wild but I sure hope he eats the turnips!

  Lincoln Costain : He may be wild, but he ain't no thing. That's about a thousand pounds of prime bull out there.

  Henrietta MacAvoy : You willful, worthless, misbegotten beast!

  Lincoln Costain : That's a right nice vocabulary Ms. McEvoy but you'll never talk him out of there...

• Henrietta MacAvoy : You just can't expect to change a whole culture overnight.

  Lincoln Costain : I don't have the least notion of changing it. If you'll just give me my wages, I won't be troubling you any further.

  Henrietta MacAvoy : You know, this is Sunday. They're entitled to some recreation.

  Lincoln Costain : There just ain't any Sundays when it's roundup until the job gets done.

  Henrietta MacAvoy : Well, maybe if you met them halfway, they would be able...

  Lincoln Costain : Ma'am there aren't any halfways in the cattle business. It would be easier to make a cherry pie out of barbed wire than to make a cowboy out of the best of the lot of them. They just ain't cut out for workin'.

  Henrietta MacAvoy : Booton says they're really trying.

  Lincoln Costain : That's whats frightening. They are.

  Henrietta MacAvoy : Well, if they're showing progress...

  Lincoln Costain : They're not showing progress, they're just trying. It ain't the same thing.

• Lincoln Costain : Hey, you know, I think I sold them boys short when I said they couldn't drive a hot nail in a snow bank. I think they could, I really think they could. Henrietta, what are you cryin' about?

  Henrietta MacAvoy : I don't know, I guess I never really believed it would happen.

  Capt. Cary : You made a believer out of me, Costain. Mrs., here's your money. Coin of the realm. I'm offering a mate's pay for anyone who'll nursemaid those cows back to California...

  Lincoln Costain : Well, that's my chance to get back to Texas. I don't know, Captain, that's right temptin' but I don't think I can leave Mrs. McEvoy with them pineapple cowboys. I mean they'd drive her dingy and I'm about the only one around who knows how to handle them.

  Capt. Cary : Well, suit yourself, lad, and I don't blame you but I've got to get them cattle to California. Thank you, both of you.

  Henrietta MacAvoy : Good-bye. Then you are going to stay, at least for a while, Linc.

  Lincoln Costain : Well for a while, yeah, for a while, you know,till they get the hang of it then I'm gonna get off this flower pot.

• Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Mamma! Mamma!

  Henrietta MacAvoy : Good heavens, we're right here

  Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Tarnation Mamma I swam one of those critters out just as smooth as butter. Did you see?

  Henrietta MacAvoy : Of course we did, dear, and nobody could have done it better.

  Lincoln Costain : Aww, well now that's a little thick don't you think? Ain't nobody gonna pin a rose on you just for doing your job. You remember that, Booton.

  Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Ma, Ma, he called me by my right name! Did you hear him? He said it for the first time!

• Lincoln Costain : When are you gonna stop calling me Mr. Costain, Ma'am.

  Henrietta MacAvoy : When you stop calling me Ma'am, Mr. Costain.

• Henrietta MacAvoy : Mr. Costain, they'll never forget you for what you've done. They'll do anything for you now.

  Lincoln Costain : We'll see who forgets who when the going gets rough, Ma'am.