The Westerner (TV Series)

Jeff (1960)

Brian Keith: Dave Blassingame

Quotes 

• [during a barroom fight with Lipp, a former prizefighter, Dave kicks the boxer in the face] 

  Denny Lipp : That's against the rules!

  Dave Blassingame : This ain't a game!

• Denny Lipp : Where's your lady friend?

  Dave Blassingame : She ain't goin'.

  Denny Lipp : All that noble gallantry gone to waste. Well, I tried to warn you. Knowing what she is, you should have...

  Dave Blassingame : I know what you made her. You left your mark on a lot of people, I guess. My dad used to tell me that women must be God's favorites, 'cause he made them finer than anything else in creation.

• Dave Blassingame : I didn't forget a verse you taught me once. It went, ah... I go up into heaven and you're there / And if I make my bed in hell, you're there / And if I take up the wings in morning, um, I guess I forgot...

  Jeff : If I take the wings of morning and dwell in the outermost parts of the sea / Even there shall thy hand lead me... and I will praise thee... for I am wonderfully made.

• Denny Lipp : You're a bad loser, Mr. Blassingame.

  [Dave punches Lipp in the face] 

  Dave Blassingame : I surely am.

• [last lines of Episode 1.1] 

  Glorie : Have you found salvation, brother?

  Dave Blassingame : Have you?

  Glorie : Yes I have!

  [the sound of drunken female laughter from the bordello behind Glorie breaks the evening silence. Dave winces and rides out of town]