Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Alan Hale: Tex Bell

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• Tex Bell : [after teasingly being disparaged by Jeb Stuart]  What has being flat-footed got to do with ridin' a horse?

  Windy Brody : Callin' me a rumpot's what hurt me. I ain't had a drink since noon!

• James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : Say, who could I talk to in this kind of a town without arousing suspicion?

  Tex Bell : [thinks for a moment]  The town barber.

  Windy Brody : That's right! Anytime a barber can't talk to a stranger, he's liable to go crazy!

• Tex Bell : [basting a steer carcass on a spit]  What did you have to go and lie for, tell the major we was the best barbecuers along the Santa Fe Trail?

  Windy Brody : [turning the spit]  I just mentioned it sort of casual. How'd I know he was gonna take us up on it?

  Tex Bell : Wait'll he starts eatin' this. Huh, he won't take us up- he'll take us up and out.

  Windy Brody : You think it's gonna be hard-chewin', Tex?

  Tex Bell : Well, I dunno. I *still* got a hunch... we should have skinned it first.

  Windy Brody : We took the horns off of it, didn't we?

• Tex Bell : Oh, now don't start lying to me, you double crossing buzzard. I know you didn't buy that there lookin' glass to see your own ugly mug.

  Windy Brody : I suppose you're figurin' on wearin' that female cinchin' belt. Wait till Lilly sees what you brung her. She'll brain ya! If it ain't physical impossible.

• Kit Carson Holliday : Where in thunder have you been?

  Windy Brody : Well, you see, we had to buy these knick-knacks. Well, we sort of got a gal in Santa Fe, Lilly, uh...

  Tex Bell : Hofstadter and what do you mean we? I'm engaged to her.

  Windy Brody : Well, who ain't?

• Windy Brody : I run into some of them abolitionists once; but, who's this feller John Brown they talk so much about?

  Tex Bell : Oh, as far as I know, he's just a dirty old windbag. In fact, he's just your type!

• Tex Bell : I'm sure glad we're leavin' civilization. It's getting too dangerous for a peace-lovin' man.

• Windy Brody : That's the most doggone fun I've had since we got hemmed up with them Injuns.

  Tex Bell : Yeah, well, the next time we shoot at a common enemy, you let me do the shootin'.

• Tex Bell : What does bein' flat-footed got to do with ridin' a horse?

  Windy Brody : Callin' me a rumpot is what hurt me. I ain't had a drink since noon.

• Tex Bell : You still got that creepy feelin' about this place?

  Windy Brody : I don't know whether it's that or these here chiggers. But somethin's creepin' over me.

• Tex Bell : They sure give you a good lookin' over in this here man's town.

  Windy Brody : Yeah, I feel just like I was takin' a bath in a bath tub without no sides on it.

  Tex Bell : The only kind of a tub you ever was in.