Rawhide (TV Series)

The Vasquez Woman (1965)

Raymond St. Jacques: Simon Blake

Quotes 

• Col. Emilio Vasquez : Your cattle?

  Jed Colby : We got the bill of sale.

  Col. Emilio Vasquez : Oh, I'm sure of that. Among honest men there is always a bill of sale. That is why I will have no concern about buying your cattle from you.

  Jed Colby : We're not selling.

  Col. Emilio Vasquez : Oh, Senor, you are mistaken.

  Simon Blake : Jed-

  [20 of the Colonel's men show up] 

• Simon Blake : If a man did only the things in life he was paid to do, he wouldn't be of much use, would he.

  Wishbone : It comes down to one thing: if a man has to fight, he has to fight.

  Jed Colby : I'm glad to see you're all willing to shoot. I only hope you know how to shoot straight.

• Wishbone : He probably won't start anything. After all, he is Army. And he is carrying a white flag.

  Simon Blake : That's just a rag on a stick. To him that doesn't mean anything at all.

• Simon Blake : Vasquez upped his price from 40 to 45,000 pesos without blinking an eye. If that money meant anything at all, he would've at least squinted one eye.

  Jim Quince : Yeah, you might be right. Say, Simon, you know Jed may have stayed in that little Mexican town even if he couldn't get that money changed.

  Simon Blake : You think so?

  Jim Quince : It's a town, aint it?

  Simon Blake : Yeah, and Jed being Jed, well, I bet he's having a whale of a time. Maybe having a hot bath.

  Jim Quince : Stretching out on a feather bed.

  Simon Blake : Listening to guitar music.

  Jim Quince : Yeah, having a hot meal totted into him.

  Simon Blake : And there I was, worrying about him. Ha, ha, ha.

  Jim Quince : Yeah, yeah.

• Simon Blake : You don't actually believe those flour sack coupons are worth anything, do you?

  Col. Emilio Vasquez : No.

  Simon Blake : Well, that's what I mean. Down here, you're a bandido one day and a general the next.

  Matthew Baker : That's if another idealistic patriotic bandido doesn't come along and print some new pesos.

  Col. Emilio Vasquez : I'll tell you, we can find out. We just ride into Guadalope and cash them in.