Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident Below the Brazos (1959)

Leslie Nielsen: Eli Becker

Quotes 

• Eli Becker : Keep your stock off our lands! No alibis! No excuses! Or we'll wipe you out!

• Eli Becker : I apologise for bringing them but I thought it better by showing force now, it might save us from using it later.

• Eli Becker : Well, who's cheating who here? You take it easy on him, Aunt E. He's a tenderfoot, y'know.

  Cort : Tenderfoot? My left eyebrow! Pretty face cardshark. I swear he's got 19 fingers and every one of 'ems crooked.

  Cort : She's right, Eli. I'm not fit company for a decent lady. You should have left me in that saloon.

  Eli Becker : Well, I couldn't do that. You were spilling blood all over Jake's floor and he didn't have any sawdust left.

  Minnie Lou : Ah, you still didn't have to bring him here. I don't know why you can't bring home stray cats and dogs like other men do, Eli Becker.

• Rowdy Yates : We took up a collection. The whole crew chipped in. It's not very much but it might help a little.

  Cort : Well, that's very kind of you.

  Eli Becker : And very clever. Can't pay for killing Ken Wade. Can't buy your way out of causing a man's death. Now get out of here. And don't forget to take your blood money with you. you're not gonna save your skins with that.

• Gil Favor : As trail boss, I'm responsible for everything that happens on the drive, even accidents.

  Hornbeck : You know what you're saying?

  Gil Favor : If you've got to have blood, one man's better than forty. All I ask is a fair trial.

  Eli Becker : You've already been tried in the Bible, Favor. An eye for an eye. Get that rope, Hornbeck.