Frontier Circus (TV Series)

Coals of Fire (1962)

Sammy Davis Jr.: Cato Richards

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Quotes 

• Ben Travis : All right, if you want a job, there's plenty of work here for you. The pay's ten dollars a month.

  Cato Richards : Ten dollars...

  Ben Travis : Mister, that's good pay out here.

  Cato Richards : What did you call me?

  Ben Travis : What do you mean?

  Cato Richards : You called me "Mister"!

  Ben Travis : Is there anything wrong with that?

  Cato Richards : No... No. It's just that ain't nobody ever called me "Mister" before.

• [a band of hostile Comanches suddenly appears on the road in front of Tony and Cato] 

  Cato Richards : We don't want to do anything to aggravate 'em.

  Tony Gentry : Aggravate 'em? They don't look like they need aggravatin'!

• Cato Richards : You want to get out of this alive, don't you?

  Tony Gentry : I don't want to get out of it any other way!

• Cato Richards : I think I still know a little how to talk to 'em... I think.

  Tony Gentry : They're liable to kill you before you even get close.

  Cato Richards : But they'll kill us both if I don't. Now you stay right where you are. Chances are they ain't seen you yet.

  Tony Gentry : Let me give you this rifle...

  Cato Richards : No no no! You keep that - just in case I get tongue-tied.

• Cato Richards : He said he had military orders to burn down every plantation regardless of how much misery it caused everybody.

  Tony Gentry : Cato, to a man who enjoys - I mean really enjoys killin' and destroyin', that's the best alibi in the whole world: "Just followin' orders."

• Tony Gentry : You mean to say you're going to kill a man in cold blood for what he done in the war?

  Cato Richards : Ain't goin' to be nothin' cold about my blood when I kill him.