Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Town in Terror (1959)

Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : Ridin' herd over a long trail may be a headache, but I can tell you it's never boresome, even when it's goin' smooth. There's plenty of sweet grass, blue skies, clear spring water. You ride lazy, thinkin' of what you left behind, dreamin' of what's ahead. Ridin' easy doesn't come often on a drive. When you're pushin' three thousand head and twenty hands, there's always something about to happen. Whatever it is, and whenever it comes up, I gotta meet it. That's my job. I'm Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Gil Favor : If we pressed up steers five across, the fifth one ends up without a hide.

• Gil Favor : Funny thing, people never give us a thought until we start getting near their front yard. Then all of a sudden, we're millionaires, we gotta pay a hundred dollars for every step we take.

  Rowdy Yates : You expecting trouble, Mr Favor.

  Gil Favor : No, not a bit. Not 'til we get there.

• Betsy Stauffer : I would have expected by now he would have reached a crisis. Still.

  Gil Favor : Yes, Miss?

  Betsy Stauffer : I don't know. I suppose the symptoms vary with each person. I just hope it doesn't get any colder. We haven't come very far, have we?

  Gil Favor : Mmh?

  Betsy Stauffer : In ancient days a newborn baby was placed in the open, and, if it survived the elements, it was deemed fit to live... Now, if a person comes down with a contagious disease, he's put out too. Nine out of ten cases don't make it.

• Betsy Stauffer : But he's got to keep dry.

  Gil Favor : If it rains... We could put him in the wagon, build a fire underneath to keep him warm.

  Betsy Stauffer : It might keep out the rain and I doubt it. But it won't keep out the dampness and chill. If he should catch the slightest cold, pneumonia and bronchitis...

  Gil Favor : If we got him to a warm, dry place?

  Betsy Stauffer : That's what he needs. We could put him in the back of the store.

  Gil Favor : PETE! I'm taking Rowdy through the Pass to Gorham.

  Pete Nolan : There might be some shooting.

• Amos Stauffer : Hurry with the bedwarmer.

  Gil Favor : Not a minute too soon. It's pouring out there.

  Amos Stauffer : Heat up some broth, Betsy. We have to warm up his insides too.