Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of Iron Bull (1963)

James Murdock: Mushy

Quotes 

• Clanton : Me, I've got a standing objection to sitting down and eating with any stinking Injuns...

  Mushy : Mr Joseph, you ever wear warpaint?

  Joseph : Paint is for warrior, I'm only stinking Injun.

• Mushy : Mr Joseph, you can tell us. Are you Iron Bull?

  Joseph : Iron Bull was a warrior. I am a man of peace.

• Mushy : The music's stopped, Mr Favor, what's that mean?

  Wishbone : It means the music's stopped, you walking idiot.

  Colonel John Macklin : Comanche use a flute in times of war as a weapon, son, tries to force his enemy into the dungeon of his own thoughts, his ambition and desires and hope can become a graveyard. His ambition decays and his desires can banked into the ashes of fear. I know all about the Comanche flute and silence. Now they've stopped talking, they've reached a decision.

• Mushy : What kind of music is that, Mr Joseph? It sounds so sad.

  Joseph : A man cannot cry, the music cries for him.

  Mushy : What's it crying for?

  Joseph : Old men, old women, squaws, children who are dead.

  Gil Favor : What about the warriors, Joseph? Does the flute also cry for them when they die?

  Joseph : Favor, the Comanche have only two things left, his young men and his honour. When they are dead even the old men cry.

  Gil Favor : There are warriors here, Joseph. Why? What do they want?

  Joseph : You have a saying, an eye for an eye. Macklin was once an enemy. Maybe he still is.

  Gil Favor : War's over. The Comanche and the soldier are at peace.

  Joseph : Hate knows no peace.

  Gil Favor : Then hate must be destroyed. Now, hear me, Joseph, if your brothers out there attack, then there will be war, and old men will cry.