The Rifleman (TV Series)

Eight Hours to Die (1958)

Chuck Connors: Lucas McCain

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Quotes 

• Lucas McCain : You stinkin' bad devil, I'll kill you with my bare hands! I'll see you in fire and brimstone for the evil scum you are!

• Lucas McCain : Yes, Micah, it would be a real welcome to know what the man looks like that wants to kill me.

• Judge Zephaniah Burton : For I'm not here to pass judgment on a calf, nor on a man. Since it has been revealed to me that you too have a son.

  [Lucas turns and stares hard at him] 

  Judge Zephaniah Burton : That is right. For I am the judge and this is my judgment. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a son for a son. It is simple, poetic justice.

  Lucas McCain : Yeah. Simple, poetic justice.

  Judge Zephaniah Burton : My son could have been guilty of no evil. All my life, I've been a judge of evil. I raised him in a stern and righteous mold, punishing him harshly. But he strayed from the path of righteousness. My son did no evil, those who have persecuted him did. So you must suffer as I have suffered. Waiting endless hour upon hour for my son to hang. For this is the judgment I pronounce upon you. You shall wait for the death of your son. You shall count the minutes and hours as the sun passes across the heavens knowing the moment approaches when I the judge - I the jury will act as executioner as hangman for your son.

• Hattie Denton : Beans and flour... meat and potatoes... Is that all you and that boy of youn is gonna eat?

  Lucas McCain : It's good solid food.

  Hattie Denton : Where's the greens?

  Lucas McCain : Greens?

  Hattie Denton : String beans, collards, turnip and beet greens. Now don't you be telling me that your ma didn't feed them to ya when you was a sprout.

  Lucas McCain : She sure did. And I sure hated 'em!

  Hattie Denton : Of course you hated them! But you ate them. Else you wouldn't have growed up the big lump that you are!

  Lucas McCain : Put 'em in the sack, Hattie. I'll take 'em. Now add up what I owe ya.

• Mark McCain : If you haven't got those coals hot enough by the time I get back from school Pa, I'll show you how to do it.

  Lucas McCain : Well, you just show yourself the multiplication tables, huh?

  Mark McCain : Well, okay. But if you wouldn't pack the coals so tight you'd get a better draft.

  Lucas McCain : [Giving him an annoyed look]  You just better get yourself to school boy!

• Lucas McCain : I don't know rather to kill you or thank you. Why did you save him?

  Judge Zephaniah Burton : I saved him for the merciful Lord God Jehovah, who has permitted me some atonement for the evil I have wronged. For He is the true judge of all things and I am but His...

  [dies]