McLintock! (1963)

Chill Wills: Drago

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• Drago : I'm sorry Katherine - that Katie just slipped out from times when I remember you as being nice people...

  Katherine McClintock : Are you going to stand there with that stupid look on your face while the hired help insults your wife?

  George Washington McLintock : He can't help it - he's just ignorant. He doesn't know any better than to tell the truth. And I can't help this stupid look. I started acquiring it as you gained in social prominence!

• George Washington McLintock : [through gritted teeth after knocking Jones down]  Now, we'll all calm down!

  Drago : Boss, he's just a little excited.

  George Washington McLintock : I know, I know. I'm gonna use good judgement. I haven't lost my temper in forty years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have got somebody killed... and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't, I won't. The hell I won't!

  [belts Jones in the mouth] 

• George Washington McLintock : You know, if we had any moral character, we wouldn't be standing here covered with mud drinkin', when we should be washing.

  Drago : [raises his glass]  G.W.?

  George Washington McLintock : [raises his glass]  Drago.

  [they click glasses and down their drinks] 

• [Curly indicates a hat hanging from the weather vane] 

  Curly Fletcher : Makes seven times this month he's come home swoggled.

  Drago : Six.

  Curly Fletcher : Seven!

  Drago : Six! Once was his birthday - that don't count.

• George Washington McLintock : [McLintock and his family are standing on the porch looking up at Ching the cook. Ching is standing there with a rather large meat cleaver]  Well you old Cantonese reprobate, how 'bout it?

  Ching : Ya fire me? I kill myself!

  George Washington McLintock : I'm not talkin' about *firing* you I'm *RETIRING* you! You've been rustlin' food for us for forty years! We're gonna put you out to pasture. All you'll have to do is give advice, be one of the family!

  Ching : I kill myself!

  George Washington McLintock : I may save you the trouble.

  Drago : Hey Ching, you kill yourself, I'll cut of your pigtail and y'ain't never gonna get to Heaven!

  [Swishes his pocketknife at Ching; Ching pauses] 

  Ching : I'll be one of the family?

  George Washington McLintock : I give you my solemn word.

  Ching : Pretty crummy family! Drinkee too muchee! Get in fight! Yell alla time!

  George Washington McLintock : [Gestures at Drago]  Cut off his pigtail!

  [Drago starts to walk up the stairs, pocketknife in hand] 

  Ching : ALRIGHT, I BE ONE OF THE FAMILY!

  [Chatters in Cantonese] 

• Drago : Drago: That divorce business. Is that whatcha get when you paya woman not to live with ya?

  George Washington McLintock : G.W.: That's about it.

  Drago : Drago: Some women I know'd be worth it.

• Devlin Warren : About that job Mr. McLintock.

  George Washington McLintock : Look son, I told ya, I got no need for farmers. Or use for them either.

  Devlin Warren : Just one minute, Mr. McLintock. My father died last month, how come we don't have a homestead. I've got a mother, a little sister to feed. I need that job badly.

  George Washington McLintock : What's your name?

  Devlin Warren : Devlin Warren.

  George Washington McLintock : Well, you've got a job. Go see my home ranch forman. He's over by the corral.

  Devlin Warren : Step down off that carriage, mister!

  George Washington McLintock : [Swings and McLintock and gets thrown to the ground]  Hold that hog leg! I've been punched many a time in my life but never for hirin' anyone.

  Devlin Warren : I don't know what to say. Never begged before. Turned my stomach. I suppose I should have been grateful that you gave me the job.

  George Washington McLintock : Gave? Boy, you've got it all wrong. I don't give jobs I hire men.

  Drago : You intend to give this man a full day's work, don'tcha boy?

  Devlin Warren : You mean you're still hirin' me? Well, yes, sir, I certainly deliver a fair day's work.

  George Washington McLintock : And for that I'll pay you a fair day's wage. You won't give me anything and I won't give you anything. We both hold up our heads. Is that your plug?

  Devlin Warren : Yes sir.

  George Washington McLintock : Well, hop on him and we'll go get your gear.

• Becky McLintock : What I'd rather do, Daddy, is drive Junior home in our barouche. It's a lovely evening and I'm sure Uncle Drago wouldn't mind driving.

  Drago : I would, and I got the kind of manners don't keep me from sayin' so just to be polite.

• Cowhand : It's a nice mornin', ain't it, boss?

  George Washington McLintock : Everybody's entitled to their own opinion.

  Cowhand : Like that again, huh? Well, this ought to cheer you up. A thousand head. I figure they'll bring about $12.50.

  George Washington McLintock : They're not as fat as I'd like for shippin'. They come off of the north range?

  Cowhand : Yes sir. Settlers. Every one of them with a plow and a bible and not the slightest idea what the range is for.

  George Washington McLintock : Drago! Drag out that hog leg. Get me some attention.

  Drago : [Fires a shot in the air]  Yeehaw! People, people, people! Come on all of ya. Gather 'round!

  George Washington McLintock : I'm McLintock. You people plan to homestead and farm the Mesa Verde.

  Settler : Yes, sir. The government give each of us a hunerd and sixty acres.

  George Washington McLintock : The government never gave anybody anything. Some years back a lot like you come in. Had a pretty good first year. Good summer. Easy winter. But the next year the last rain was in February. And by June even the jack rabbits had sense enough to get off the Mesa.

  Matt Douglas : Folks, do you know who that is? That's McClintock. George Washington McLintock.

  George Washington McLintock : I told them that, Douglas.

  Matt Douglas : He controls the water rights on 200 square miles of range. You know that lumber you got? It came from his land. Cut by his loggers and milled in his mill.

  George Washington McLintock : Douglas, I come close to killin' you a couple of times when we were younger. Saddens me I didn't.

  Matt Douglas : Can you imagine a man who owns all that, oh and mines too, I forgot to mention those, all that and he's begrudgin' poor people a measly, a measly, one hundred sixty acres.

  Settler : That right, Mr. McLintock? You begrudge us a little free land?

  George Washington McLintock : There's no such thing as free land. You make these homesteads go you'll have earned every acre of it. But you just can't make 'em go on the Mesa Verde. God made that country for buffalo. Serves pretty well for cattle. But it hates the plow. And even the government should know you can't farm 6000 feet above sea level!

  Sheriff Jeff Lord : Any trouble here, Mr. McLintock?

  George Washington McLintock : No trouble, Sheriff.

  Sheriff Jeff Lord : How about you, Douglas.

  Matt Douglas : Douglas. Just plain Douglas, eh. And you call him Mr. McLintock. Why?

  Sheriff Jeff Lord : Well, Douglas, I guess that's because he's earned it.

  Devlin Warren : Mr. McLintock? I'm a good had with cattle, Mr. McLintock. I'd like a job.

  George Washington McLintock : Well, you look strong enough. You come in with those sooners?

  Devlin Warren : Yes, sir. But we haven't got a homestead and...

• Drago : [enters wearing butler's attire]  Well I'll be doggoned! Kate! Welcome home!

  Katherine McClintock : [annoyed]  What on earth are you doing in that idiotic outfit?

  [infuriated, with index finger in Drago's face] 

  Katherine McClintock : And don't you dare call me Kate!

  Drago : It's my buttlin' suit, I'm buttlin' for the boss. And I'm sorry Katherine, that "Kate" kinda slipped out from the times I remembered you as bein' nice peo..

  [gasps] 

  Drago : people.

  Katherine McClintock : [exasperated]  Are you going to stand there with that stupid look on your face, while the hired help insults your wife?

  George Washington McLintock : [throw hands up]  He's just ignorant! He doesn't know any better than to tell the truth! And I can't help this stupid look, I started acquiring it as you gained in social... prominence!