Branded (TV Series)

Barbed Wire (1966)

Chuck Connors: Jason McCord

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• Jason McCord : Now look, Thorp... Barbed wire is the future of the beef business. You can accept that, or you can fight it and soak the range with blood and fill the cemeteries. But you'll still lose, Thorp. Because post holes can be dug faster than graves and no man in history has yet stopped new ideas and new ways, you remember that.

• 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.

• Jason McCord : Use it to build a calf pen, a fence around a poisoned waterhole, Protection for an orchard or a bean field, or a herd of blooded stock. But get used to it, Mr Thorp, because it's the future of the cattle business.

• Jason McCord : There's two miles of fence to a ton of wire.

  Foreman Kilgore : Miles. Don't seem possible.

  Jason McCord : Well, it is.

  Foreman Kilgore : Suppose we pull off a spool and see.

• 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.