Cowboy (1958 film) Quotes

Cowboy (1958 film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Cowboy stopped airing in 1970.

It features Julian Blaustein as producer, George Duning in charge of musical score, and Charles Lawton, Jr. as head of cinematography.

Cowboy (1958 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Cowboy (1958 film) is 92 minutes long. Cowboy (1958 film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Glenn Ford as Tom Reese, Jack Lemmon as Frank Harris, Richard Jaeckel as Paul Curtis, and James Westerfield as Mike Adams.

Cowboy (1958 film) Quotes

Glenn Ford as Tom Reese

• (Glenn Ford) "Well, what makes you think you'd like to go trail herding?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Well, ah, all my life I've been dreaming about going into the cattle business. Getting out on the trail and -- and I hate Chicago. I'd like to live in the open. You know what I mean?"
• (Glenn Ford) "Oh, yeah, I know what you mean. You mean lying out there under the stars listening to the boys singing around the campfire. And your faithful old horse standing there grazing at the grass by your side. You do much riding?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Me? Well, I bet I could ride all day and all night."
• (Glenn Ford) "Oh, is that a fact? You know, I bet you like horses."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Yes, sir, I sure do."
• (Glenn Ford) "Yeah, I thought so. Well, you're an idiot. You're a dreaming idiot, and that's the worst kind. You know what the trail is really like? Dust storms all day, cloudbursts all night. A man has got to be a fool to want that kind of life."

• (Glenn Ford) "If you had anything inside you worth saving, I'd beat you until you couldn't stand up. But it wouldn't do any good because you'll never learn. You haven't gotten tougher -- you've gotten miserable."

• (Glenn Ford) "I thought I saw a spider."

• (Glenn Ford) "Anybody know the right words? When something like this happens, people start asking how come it happened. Was it his fault -- or somebody else's fault? Well, that isn't for us to say. You see, we don't know all the answers. All we know is a man is dead and that's that. In the long run, I don't think it would have made any difference anyhow. I mean, if it hadn't been a snake that got him, it would have been a steer, or a Comanche, or it might have been a -- his horse might have stumbled into a prairie dog hole some dark night. He was a good man with cattle and always did the best he knew how. I hope someone could say the same over me."

• (Glenn Ford) "How's the arm, Charlie?"
• (Unnamed) "All right, boss. It's my drinking arm, not my loving arm."

• (Glenn Ford) "You're getting old, Doc."
• (Unnamed) "No, it ain't that. A man has to have something besides a gun and a saddle. You just can't make it all by yourself."

• (Glenn Ford) "And all that hogwash about horses. The loyalty of the horse. The intelligence of the horse. The intelligence? You know a horse has a brain just about the size of a walnut. They're mean, they're treacherous and they're stupid. There isn't a horse born that had enough sense to move away from a hot fire. No sensible man loves a horse. He tolerates the filthy animal only because riding is better than walking."

• (Unnamed) "I remember him, he writes poetry."
• (Glenn Ford) "Do you write poetry?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "I used to."

James Westerfield as Mike Adams

• (James Westerfield) "One thing about opera: sounds just as bad no matter who sings it."

Jack Lemmon as Frank Harris

• (Jack Lemmon) "I thought I was gonna ride with some men. You're just a bunch of animals."

• (Jack Lemmon) "We rounded up most of the herd -- that is, all we could find."
• (Glenn Ford) "How many head did we lose?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "Just over 200."
• (Glenn Ford) "That's a lot of cows."
• (Jack Lemmon) "Yeah, it is. It's too bad. It's too bad for you."
• (Glenn Ford) "What?"
• (Jack Lemmon) "We found all my cows. It seems it was yours that ran off and got lost."

Richard Jaeckel as Paul Curtis

• (Unnamed) "Tell the boys the time you ate them Indians, huh? Come on."
• (Unnamed) "Ah, I only ate but one injun in my whole life. An even then it was just a haunch."
• (Richard Jaeckel) "Hey, old Joe would be rather fighting Indians all the time, wouldn't you, Joe? Look at him, boss. It makes him hungry just thinking about it."
• (Unnamed) "Ah, cut it out, will you, Curtis? I was near starving to death. In fact, I didn't even know that injun. Anyway, I threw away everything except for one haunch."
• (Richard Jaeckel) "Which haunch did you keep, Joe?"
• (Unnamed) "Well, the left one, of course. The right one is the working haunch. They're always tough."

• (Unnamed) "What about this fellow Reece?"
• (Richard Jaeckel) "He's all right if you're all right."
• (Unnamed) "When does he pay off? At the end of the run?"
• (Richard Jaeckel) "You ask him for what's coming in the middle a river crossing, and he'll pay off. He'll you off in dry bills."

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