Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Hostages (1963)

Clint Eastwood: Rowdy Yates

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Quotes 

• Rowdy Yates : You, ah, speak English?

  Arapahoe Leader : Cows. You give.

• Jim Quince : [opening lines with Joe asleep, Rowdy relaxing, and Jim massaging his sore feet, all under the shade of a tree]  Oh, boy. Well, anyway I tell you that, I said, son, are you plum crazy? You know what signing up with a trail drive means? Well, It means stampedes, heat and dust, winds and rain, mud, misery, and the monotony, starvation, thirst.

  Rowdy Yates : Indians!

  Jim Quince : And Indians. Now wait a minute. You gotta be fair about this. You just won't find no Indians out in this neck of the woods.

  Rowdy Yates : You wouldn't, huh?

• Gil Favor : [Mr Favor arrives]  All right, what do you think this is, some kind of wild west show or picnic?

  [He looks down at the children who are sitting against a wagon wheel] 

  Gil Favor : Mmm! Kids!

  Rowdy Yates : True, but don't let the size of them fool yah.

  Gil Favor : What's your name? Huh? What's the matter?

  [He bends down from his 6 feet 4 inches height and says to the little girl] 

  Gil Favor : I ain't gonna bite.

  Yellow Sky : Touch her, I'll cut your heart out.

  Rowdy Yates : She CAN talk.

• Rowdy Yates : [Rowdy sings to the children in the back of the wagon while playing his guitar]  Riding high, riding fast, always on the go, this is just a drover's life, this is all I know. Head 'em up, move 'em out, always on the run, just to make a few more miles before the setting sun. I've never had a love to call my own, a poor drover's life is always alone. Into every cattle town, it's always been the same, guess I'm just a saddle bum, they don't know my name. Guess that I am rough all right but I've never done no wrong. This is such a lonely trail, oh Lord it seems so long. I'm gonna leave some day, go far, far away and find me a home and love of my own. I'm gonna find that little girl, and I will someday... I'll change my Rowdy ways. I've never ever loved to call my own, a poor drover's life is always alone. I'm gonna leave someday, go far, far away, and find me a home and love, and love of my own.

• Rowdy Yates : Mr Favor,

  [Rowdy rouses the boss from his sleep, he's lying against the wagon wheel, the little girl asleep by his side, her hand firmly in his] 

  Rowdy Yates : The cattle I gave the Arapaho, they seem to be drifting back. There's some buzzards in the sky over east. I thought we oughtta take a look.

  Gil Favor : Yeah, well, you better take Jim with yah. I'm sorta tied up.