The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

Stella Stevens: Hildy

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• Hildy : You've been awful nice to me, Hogue. Never bothered you none what I am?

  Cable Hogue : Hell no, it never bothered me. I enjoyed it. Now, what the hell are you? Human being. Try the best you can. We all got our own ways of living.

  Hildy : And loving?

  Cable Hogue : Gets mighty lonesome without it.

• Cable Hogue : Josh, it's about time you earned your keep. Preach me a funeral sermon.

  Hildy : Oh, for heaven's sake!

  Cable Hogue : A good one. Don't make me out no saint but don't put me down to deep.

  Reverend Joshua Sloan : You mean now?

  Cable Hogue : Yeah. It's not knowing what they're going to say about you, that's all. Now all my life, I've been scared of this living. Now... got to do the other. Now come on now! I can't wait all day. I ain't got any time.

• Hildy : [singing]  I went walking in butterfly mornin's and wildflower afternoons

  Hildy , Cable Hogue : You'll catch me in the cantaloupe, Down there sittin' on a seed, Gonna trace my footsteps, Underneath the weeds, Gonna string up some dandelions, Gonna wear 'em as beads, I'll be dancing in lace wings, And dimples on a big city sign that reads, Butterfly mornin's, Butterfly mornin's, Butterfly mornin's, And wildflower afternoons...

• Hildy : Honey, you was smelling bad enough to gag a dog off a gut wagon!

• Cable Hogue : Hey, look at that. Inside plumbing.

  Hildy : As good as anything you'll find in Kansas City.

  Cable Hogue : Oh! Sweet glory, love.

• Hildy : You'll get there, all right.

  Hildy : You bet your sweet life I will.

  Cable Hogue : One way or another, love.

  Hildy : And when I *do* hit Frisco, I'm gonna be the ladiest damn lady you ever seen. I'm gonna marry me the richest man in San Francisco. Maybe the two richest men. It's just a question of time.

• Hildy : Undo me. San Francisco is my next stop.

  Cable Hogue : San Francisco?

  Hildy : And when I hit Frisco...

  Cable Hogue : Noisy, god-awful, claptrap town.

  Hildy : I'm gonna hit it in style.

• Cable Hogue : Thank you, Miss.

  Hildy : My pleasure.

  Cable Hogue : Thank you, truly.

• Hildy : Hey, come back here! Cable Hogue, you're no damn good!

  Cable Hogue : I'll be back!

• Cable Hogue : You remember my name?

  Hildy : You remember mine?

• Hildy : [heavy breathing]  Ow. Cable Hogue, take off your damn boots! Now, that's better. Mmm. Mmm. Ah. Ahhh...

• Hildy : You've been awful nice to me, Hogue. Never bothered you none what I am?

  Cable Hogue : Hell, no, it never bothered me. I enjoyed it! Well, what the hell are you? A human being. We try the best we can. We all got our own ways of livin'.

  Hildy : And lovin'?

  Cable Hogue : Gets mighty Ionesome without it.

• Reverend Joshua Sloan : Yea, little desert flower, I will protect you as a shepherd protects his flock.

  Hildy : Yeah, well, I heard about them sheepherders, Reverend Sloan, and you ain't stickin' my feet in your boots.

• Cable Hogue : Hildy, that man you was married to...

  Hildy : He died about a month back - of a stroke, in bed. But he died happy!

  Cable Hogue : I'll just bet he did.

• Hildy : We got nothin' but time, Hogue. Nothin' but time.