The Texan (TV Series)

The First Notch (1958)

Rory Calhoun: Bill Longley

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Quotes 

• Bill Longley : I gave you a choice, you made me treat you like a kid.

• Neil Pearce : You made a fool out of me in there.

  Bill Longley : I could have made you good and dead. Why'd you do it?

  Neil Pearce : Haven't you heard, Mister? You're not considered a man around here until you've got a notch on your gun.

• Bill Longley : Havin' nothin' but a gun in your hand can be a lonesome thing. Lonesome is all the time.

• Bill Longley : [to Walt]  You got one big fault, Mister. You try to own too many people

• Bill Longley : There's no sense walking the direction trouble takes.

• Bill Longley : What makes you think I'd help the kid or Pearce... or you?

  Charlotta Rivera : Rim Rock.

• [last lines] 

  Neil Pearce : I guess I'll never get a notch on my gun.

  Bill Longley : A fella can get a notch on his gun by not pullin' the trigger.