Branded (TV Series)

Barbed Wire (1966)

Rod Cameron: Holland Thorp

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Quotes 

• Holland Thorp : Boy, they sure did pile you high. How far up do you go?

  Jason McCord : If you mean how tall am I, six foot six, Mr. Thorpe.

• Holland Thorp : Either you got the ranch in your blood or you ain't. I've got it. I listen to the land stirring like it had got a heart of its own, quail and the sweet briar, cattle coming down through the chaparral for the water, feel of the storm coming. These hills have been my wife and children for 37 years. I'll protect them like they was my own flesh. You got any ties like that.

  Jason McCord : No.

  Holland Thorp : Then get out.

• Holland Thorp : You won't buy off, so I reckon you won't scare off.

• Holland Thorp : I'm gonna make an example of you, you and everybody else that thinks open range oughta have a crown of thorns.

  [In the American way, Jason is set upon by at least a dozen of Thorp's thugs, fair odds? Jason stumbles back to Beckwith's wrapped in barbed fencing wire] 

• Holland Thorp : You know you ought to get out and sweat a little. You're getting a little pock-gutted.

  Roy Beckwith : You oughta get fitted for a pair of glasses and you'd see the old ways won't do no more. The cattle business is changing and what's changing it is barbed fence wire.

• Holland Thorp : How's the survey coming?

  Howie : You oughta know. You've been watching us all afternoon from that bute.

  Holland Thorp : Yeah, I kinda got thirsty just watching you.

• Holland Thorp : I figured you'd come about those lead calling cards that my foreman sent over your way.

  Jason McCord : You knew about that?

  Holland Thorp : I guess a man's entitled to one fool question.