The Rebel (TV Series)

Helping Hand (1961)

Nick Adams: Johnny Yuma

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Quotes 

• Johnny Yuma : Don't you boys want any help?

  Carl Blaine : We Blaines hoed our own corn.

• Johnny Yuma : Longridge country ?

  [Tennessee] 

  Carl Blaine : Yeah?

  Johnny Yuma : I been in that section twice during the war. That's hard rocky land up there.

  Carl Blaine : My Pa used to tell me. He'd say, those pine hills got one bumper crop. That's misery.

• Johnny Yuma : How long have you lived this side of the Missouri?

  Carl Blaine : Four years.

  Johnny Yuma : Well, you don't learn very fast, do you? In this country a man shares his water. That's all of those except your Uncle Luke's.

  Carl Blaine : We hold our own habits.

• Johnny Yuma : You either die of thirst, or you go up there and get shot. Your uncle doesn't want to watch his back trail the rest of his life. He'll settle it with you right here. Judging from that canteen trick he intends to see all three of us dead. At least you got another gun on your side. That helps a little.

  Carl Blaine : Yuma, we Blaines ain't never been rich in much except in pride. You go ahead with whatsoever you're inclined. But me and Davy fight our own fights.

• Carl Blaine : I notice people act different out here.

  Johnny Yuma : These people have another kind of fight. One year a man gets burned out by Indians. Next year his neighbour loses his stock in a blizzard. And another neighbour gets wiped out by grass fire.

  Carl Blaine : That's what happened to us. Grass fire. That thing came along, wiped our place out. We was lucky to get out.

  Johnny Yuma : Neighbours offer to help you rebuild?

  Carl Blaine : Nah! Pa wouldn't let 'em!

  Johnny Yuma : That WASN'T CHARITY! They wanted you back on your feet. In case they needed your help the next year.

  Carl Blaine : Pa never did hold with exchanging favours like that. Tell you the truth, Mr Yuma, I don't know if we Blaines know how.