Ride the High Country (1962)
Randolph Scott: Gil Westrum
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Quotes
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Gil Westrum : Don't worry about? about anything. I'll take care of it, just like you would have.
Steve Judd : Hell, I know that. I always did... You just forgot it for a while, that's all.
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Gil Westrum : Cut me loose, Steve!
Steve Judd : Why?
Gil Westrum : [Gil holds out his bound outstretched wrists] Because I don't sleep so good anymore.
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Gil Westrum : Don't worry boy. The Lord's bounty may not be for sale but the Devil's is... if you can pay the price.
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Gil Westrum : Pardner, do you know what's on the back of a poor man when he dies? The clothes of pride. And they're not a bit warmer to him than when he was alive.
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Gil Westrum : [with sarcasm] Dandy pair of boots you got there.
Steve Judd : Juan Fernandez made those boots for me in San Antone - special order. I had a hell of a time getting him to put that hole in there. Fine craftsman, Juan, but he never did understand the principle of ventilation.
Gil Westrum : I remember Juan - always felt the boot should cover the foot.
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Gil Westrum : She stays here... we're packin' gold not petticoats
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Steve Judd : I'm gonna put you behind bars, Gil.
Gil Westrum : You'll pay hell gettin' it done.
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Gil Westrum : [while the three men - Steve, Gil and Heck - are seated at the dinner table at host Joshua and his daughter Elsa's for the first time, and after Steve and Joshua have a somewhat argumentative discourse quoting Bible verses pertaining to the 3 men's "trafficking in gold," Gil addresses Elsa to lighten the mood] "You cook a lovely ham hock, Ms. Knudsen, just lovely. Appetite, Chapter One."
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Steve Judd : That boy you trained personally shows a substantial lack of judgment.
Gil Westrum : Kinda' showin' *your* age, aren't ya? Interfering with a young man's love life...
Steve Judd : Well, I'm not payin' him ten dollars a day to go moonin' after some girl whose old man is about to hind-end him with a load of buckshot.
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Gil Westrum : My sentiments exactly.
