The Loner (TV Series)

Westward the Shoemaker (1965)

Lloyd Bridges: William Colton

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Quotes 

• William Colton : [Hyman hides behind a rock when Cavalry ride by]  Hyman, what are you doing over there?

  Hyman Rabinovitch : Cossacks!

  William Colton : Cossacks? They were troopers. They're not Cossacks. U.S. Cavalrymen.

  Hyman Rabinovitch : U.S. Cavalry?

  William Colton : Yeah, United States Cavalrymen.

  Hyman Rabinovitch : Back in Latvia, cossacks come, burn houses, kill people, kill my grandfather, kill my father. Every time I see uniform I think cossacks after Hyman. But I am wrong, huh? Not in America? Not in Wild West? No cossacks here?

  William Colton : No cossacks.

  Hyman Rabinovitch : Indians after Hyman, yes. Bandits after Hyman, possible. But no cossacks, huh?

  William Colton : No cossacks. Not in America.

• Charlie Parker : Like I said, mister, I'm just a rangehand like yourself. I don't do this professionally.

  William Colton : That a fact? Let me see that palm of yours.

  Charlie Parker : Hey!

  William Colton : You never branded with that hand. Or pulled up fence posts or used a rope. That's a nice smooth palm you got there. No callouses on the fingertips. That's the hand of a six-fingered card shark with extra aces in his pocket. All dressed up like a cowhand, aren't ya? Ready to swoop down off of his perch once an easy mark walks into the room. A drunken drummer, a wide-eyed tenderfoot. How are you with widows and orphans, huh?

  Charlie Parker : I get your point, mister.

  William Colton : That's good.