The Westerner (TV Series)

Ghost of a Chance (1960)

Brian Keith: Dave Blassingame

Quotes 

• [Dave enters a Mexican village where the residents have vanished, leaving food on their plates] 

  Dave Blassingame : If this town's a ghost, the body's still warm.

• Dave Blassingame : Now this town was empty twenty minutes ago. Why?

  Carlotta : Empty? I have been here waiting for you.

  Dave Blassingame : How long you been here?

  Carlotta : All my life. You know, senor, the Jornada del Muerto - the desert - it has a way of making a man see things that are not there.

  Dave Blassingame : Well, I never heard it could make a man not see things that are there.

• Carlotta : Senor, you came from the south... you must have seen our men!

  Dave Blassingame : Well, no, I just seen... I just seen the vultures.

• [Dave pursues the wounded Serafin] 

  Dave Blassingame : Careful!

  Carlotta : No! He's ours!

  Serafin : This... all internal politics, my friend. You understand? At heart, I'm basically anti-political... it's not my nature. Comprende? I-I-It destroys my heart to see such bloodshed. I surrender for the good of all Mexico! These women do not understand politics. You understand, eh? I go with you, amigo? Yes, we make a nice ride... maybe drink a little tequila? Then you turn me over to the Federales. You won't leave me to these women! I go with you! With you, yes? I insist! Please? No. Nooo!

  [the village women surround Serafin with drawn knives] 

• [last lines of Episode 1.9] 

  Dave Blassingame : What are you going to do?

  Carlotta : The village is our home, senor. We will wait here.

  Dave Blassingame : Alone?

  Carlotta : For a while. But someday a man will come, lonely and tired... and he will stay. A man who can work. And after him, another. We will wait for our one man. They will come back.

  Dave Blassingame : Yeah, I guess they will. Adios.

  Carlotta : Adios.

• [a Mexican bandito bars Dave way out of town] 

  Dave Blassingame : Habla Englisa?

  [the gunslinger nods] 

  Dave Blassingame : Sure you do, you miserable hind end of a coyote. Just tryin' to be agreeable. Now look here what I got for you

  [Dave unsheathes his rifle] 

  Dave Blassingame : See? Ain't it purdy? How'd you like to have that, you bushwhackin' hamstringer?

  [as the gunslinger reaches for the rifle Dave smacks him with the rifle butt]