Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Slavemaster (1960)

Peter Lorre: Victor Laurier

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Quotes 

• Victor Laurier : That was before the war. Everything was better then. Jonah, you think I made a mistake?

  Jonah : It is not for me to say, sir.

  Victor Laurier : Oh yes. I should have not come to America. I should not have brought money with me. And I should not have put money on a losing cause.

  Jonah : Tes, sir.

  Francois : You obeyed your heart, that's what counts.

• Pete Nolan : You know, Mr Laurier, if your cotton wasn't so scrawny, I'd think I was down Louisana way.

  Victor Laurier : If it wasn't for a lost cause, so would I. It's short fibre but quite resilient. To think of it, this camp, a few years ago, there was nothing here but desolation. Now there's a plantation. From this

  [raw cotton] 

  Victor Laurier : to this

  [making fabric on the loom] 

  Victor Laurier : to this

  [his suit] 

  Victor Laurier : , I just made a quarter of a million dollars.

  Gil Favor : You've convinced me I'm in the wrong business.

• Victor Laurier : You don't think you ever deceived me, do you? I had you followed you all the time. Perhaps you are wondering why I didn't put you in the cave with the others. If you were Northern trash, I would. But you are Southeners, you deserve a decent fate.

• Victor Laurier : Where are you going?

  Mike Anderson : What difference does it make where a dead man go?

• Victor Laurier : I will not be spoken to in this way.

  Mike Anderson : How do you think those men are going speak to you?