Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident at Hourglass (1964)

Jay C. Flippen: Sergeant Shaler

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• Sergeant Shaler : You haven't asked yet but I know you're about to. So I'll save you the trouble. What are we doing here? We're building a dam, Sonny. Right where you came through's gonna be under forty feet of water.

  Rowdy Yates : Ah, yeah. Coming from where?

  Sergeant Shaler : Fron the Hourglass River.

  Rowdy Yates : Hourglass River. You mean that creek we just rode through. There's not enough water there to bathe a goat.

  Sergeant Shaler : [laughs at Rowdy's naivity]  This is the dry season. On the map, it's a river.

  Rowdy Yates : On the map. Yeah, well, never mind why or where. When?

• Sergeant Shaler : I watched the way she cut the young lieutenants out from the herd.

• Rowdy Yates : And runs the firing squad too.

  Sergeant Shaler : No, Sonny. The firing squad is reserved for soldiers. We hang murderers just like the civilians do.

  Gil Favor : But quicker. The sergeant's just been telling me, I'll be tried, and convicted, and buried, and forgotten all come tomorrow night.

  Sergeant Shaler : Aw, no. We'll probably think about yer 'til the end of the week.

• Sergeant Shaler : You know, Mr Favor, I'd hate to play crib with you if all you had on your mind was the cards.

• Sergeant Shaler : Well, then you'd better skedaddle over and get your CO to talk to mine. That's the way the Army likes it. Rank talks to rank.