Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Slavemaster (1960)

Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

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Quotes 

• Gil Favor : Dependin' on where you come from, you call steers brush splitters, cactus boomers, critters, rawhides, scalawags, or baccas. The drovers whose job it is to get 'em where they're goin' call 'em beeves. I'm one of those drovers. We've been pushin' this herd for almost five hundred miles, and it's still nearly twice that to Sedalia, Missouri. My name's Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Gil Favor : Mrs Bradley, I don't mean to butt in. A lot of women have had to face the fact their men weren't coming back from the war.

  Martha Bradley : Other women didn't get a letter from their husband four years after he was supposed to die, Mr Favor, a letter with no postmark, slipped under the door at night as though whoever delivered it was afraid to do it.

• 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.