Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : On a trail drive, you pick your men to be at least as smart as the cows. The cows know enough to drink up when there's water, to stop and eat when there's food. The men can do that, too, but the rest of their thinking - man or beast - I'm supposed to do for 'em, whether I do it right or not. My name's Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Rowdy Yates : Boss, I'm sorry. I thought they were good people, really.

  Gil Favor : Not they, Rowdy. You thought the girl was good people. Now, mount up, you gotta start tracking those good people. But mind, just track 'em. Don't tangle with them.

  Rowdy Yates : After what they've done, you don't want me to stop them if I catch up to them?

  Gil Favor : What's you have in mind? Shootin' in amongst women and children?

• Illora Calvin : Surely with all that cattle you have some horses to spare.

  Gil Favor : But not enough. I can't move a herd with worn-out horses. I need every single mount I've got.

  Farmer : We've got women and children, mister. You wanna see them starve.

• Gil Favor : I can talk better with my hands untied.

• Jacob Calvin : I'll send the money as soon as the crop's in.

  Gil Favor : Well, well, we best get moving. 'Bye, Miss Calvin.

  Melissa Calvin : 'Bye.

  Rowdy Yates : You, er, you don't have to send the money, Mr Calvin. We'll pick it up on our way back.

  Gil Favor : Rowdy!

  Rowdy Yates : Oh, ah, in the Spring.

• Jacob Calvin : Illora isn't as bad a woman as she seems to be, Mr Favor.

  Gil Favor : I'm afraid that depends on which side you're on.

  Jacob Calvin : It's living in this valley. She isn't cut out for it. She's a Castillian.

  Gil Favor : She's Spanish?

  [He must have had his eyes and his mind firmly closed the night before when she danced, but no, he'd been watching her] 

  Jacob Calvin : She's got distant relations out in California. They one of those Spanish land grants. That's where she wanted me to take her. But it's not the same when someone gives you your life like a gift. If a man gotta build a life, he's gotta do it on his own. That's what she can't understand.