The Rebel (TV Series)

Yellow Hair (1959)

Nick Adams: Johnny Yuma

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Quotes 

• Crazy Man : Injuns hit the fort.

  Johnny Yuma : When?

  Crazy Man : Oh, a hundred years ago, a thousand - maybe it was only last week. Anyways it was a lot of dead men ago.

  Johnny Yuma : Commanches?

  Crazy Man : Kiowas, boy, Kiowas! They'd chew up Commanches for breakfast.

• [trying to explain his cowardice] 

  Crazy Man : I might have been dead if I'd fought. What good would that do me?

  Johnny Yuma : Your bullet might have killed Santanta.

• Satanta : You will die. Do you know the reason?

  Johnny Yuma : I reckon 'cause you say so.

  Satanta : A man should know why he dies. That helps to die well.

  Johnny Yuma : If you gotta die, you might as well be good at it.

  Satanta : We will see, Yellow Hair, if the Kiowa will be proud of your scalp.

• [Santanta's Kiowas have captured the army fort] 

  Satanta : This is our land. You will learn that as the other milk faces have.

  Johnny Yuma : Looks like you taught 'em pretty good, Santanta.

• [examining Johnny's Confederate cap] 

  Satanta : You, Yellow Hair, you have fought the Long Knives, too, like the Kiowa.

  Johnny Yuma : Not exactly.

  [throws Johnny's cap into the dirt] 

  Satanta : You were beaten.

  Johnny Yuma : They licked us.

  Satanta : Your chances of winning were not good.

  Johnny Yuma : They were better than yours.

  Satanta : One does not fight always to win. Sometimes the fight is to hurt back.

• Satanta : Yellow Hair, what do they call me now?

  Johnny Yuma : Butcher.

• [last lines] 

  [handing Johnny his pocket watch] 

  Crazy Man : It's got my name on it. Maybe you can give it to my kin. Tell 'em you found it on a dead soldier at Fort Concho.

  Johnny Yuma : Yeah.