The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
James Garner: Costain
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Quotes
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Lincoln Costain : Where are you going, Batten?
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Booton! Aw shucks, what's the use? I can't get the dang thing to work anyhow.
Lincoln Costain : In my outfit we only quit when it's too dark to work or time to eat. I didn't hear the dinner bell, did you?
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Henrietta MacAvoy : Mr. Bryson tells me it's impossible to load cattle onto boats in these waters.
Calvin Bryson : It was tried once on the big island. Two ships ran on reefs, and there's no anchorage further out.
Lincoln Costain : Don't they have docks in Alleah?
Calvin Bryson : Never needed them."
Lincoln Costain : Well how do they load then?
Calvin Bryson : Mostly by long boat. Can you imagine trying to load cattle by long boat?
Lincoln Costain : Well, there's got to be a way, there always is, it's just a matter of finding it.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Mr. Costain says there ain't never been a horse that ain't been rode and there ain't never been a rider that ain't been throwed.
Calvin Bryson : Is that what he says? Well, I won't challenge the statement but I will the grammar.
Lincoln Costain : Grammar never was my strong suit.
Calvin Bryson : Young man you are sprouting up like a weed.
Lincoln Costain : At least he's got good rock candy.
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Lincoln Costain : Ten thousand acres, huh? That's a good size pea patch even where I come from.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Where's that?
Lincoln Costain : Texas. There you can ride a month in any direction and never touch a fence.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : It must be beautiful.
Lincoln Costain : Oh, it is.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Costain, do you think you could ever like it here?
Lincoln Costain : Me? No, no. Nah, this fruit bowl ain't for me. Some people might like it just fine, though.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Suppose you're going back to Texas, huh?
Lincoln Costain : You bet.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Got a wife there?
Lincoln Costain : Haven't met the woman who could afford me.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Then you never did have one.
Lincoln Costain : Nope. Had the small pox once though. Amounts to about the same thing.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Yeah, guess you never wanted to settle down with any woman no matter how nice she was, huh.
Lincoln Costain : You got that right.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : But you can't have kids if you ain't married.
Lincoln Costain : Yeh, ain't that a mercy?
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : What are you gonna you do when you get old?
Lincoln Costain : Die, I guess.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : No, I mean before that. Who'll take care of you if you don't have a son?
Lincoln Costain : I'll say one thing for you - you get a notion, you sure hang on to it, Burton.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Booton.
Lincoln Costain : Oh yeah.
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Henrietta MacAvoy : Yes, it's true they do like their fun.
Lincoln Costain : They'd rather giggle than laugh, they'd rather laugh than eat they're like a bunch of kids out there. A school girl would be more sober mam'm.
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Lincoln Costain : What is it boy? What's the matter?
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : It's one of the animals, a big one. He's eatin' up the vegetables again.
Henrietta MacAvoy : Get out of there. Get out of my garden, do you hear me? Get out!
Lincoln Costain : One of the animals, woe doggey, you didn't tell me you had cattle around here, Button
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Booton. We don't that thing's wild but I sure hope he eats the turnips!
Lincoln Costain : He may be wild, but he ain't no thing. That's about a thousand pounds of prime bull out there.
Henrietta MacAvoy : You willful, worthless, misbegotten beast!
Lincoln Costain : That's a right nice vocabulary Ms. McEvoy but you'll never talk him out of there...
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Lincoln Costain : Where are they?
Kimo : Boys not tell me, boss. Maybe they go work someplace else, yes?
Lincoln Costain : Yeah, yeah, maybe it'll snow this afternoon too, but I doubt it.
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Henrietta MacAvoy : You just can't expect to change a whole culture overnight.
Lincoln Costain : I don't have the least notion of changing it. If you'll just give me my wages, I won't be troubling you any further.
Henrietta MacAvoy : You know, this is Sunday. They're entitled to some recreation.
Lincoln Costain : There just ain't any Sundays when it's roundup until the job gets done.
Henrietta MacAvoy : Well, maybe if you met them halfway, they would be able...
Lincoln Costain : Ma'am there aren't any halfways in the cattle business. It would be easier to make a cherry pie out of barbed wire than to make a cowboy out of the best of the lot of them. They just ain't cut out for workin'.
Henrietta MacAvoy : Booton says they're really trying.
Lincoln Costain : That's whats frightening. They are.
Henrietta MacAvoy : Well, if they're showing progress...
Lincoln Costain : They're not showing progress, they're just trying. It ain't the same thing.
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Lincoln Costain : Hey, you know, I think I sold them boys short when I said they couldn't drive a hot nail in a snow bank. I think they could, I really think they could. Henrietta, what are you cryin' about?
Henrietta MacAvoy : I don't know, I guess I never really believed it would happen.
Capt. Cary : You made a believer out of me, Costain. Mrs., here's your money. Coin of the realm. I'm offering a mate's pay for anyone who'll nursemaid those cows back to California...
Lincoln Costain : Well, that's my chance to get back to Texas. I don't know, Captain, that's right temptin' but I don't think I can leave Mrs. McEvoy with them pineapple cowboys. I mean they'd drive her dingy and I'm about the only one around who knows how to handle them.
Capt. Cary : Well, suit yourself, lad, and I don't blame you but I've got to get them cattle to California. Thank you, both of you.
Henrietta MacAvoy : Good-bye. Then you are going to stay, at least for a while, Linc.
Lincoln Costain : Well for a while, yeah, for a while, you know,till they get the hang of it then I'm gonna get off this flower pot.
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Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Mamma! Mamma!
Henrietta MacAvoy : Good heavens, we're right here
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Tarnation Mamma I swam one of those critters out just as smooth as butter. Did you see?
Henrietta MacAvoy : Of course we did, dear, and nobody could have done it better.
Lincoln Costain : Aww, well now that's a little thick don't you think? Ain't nobody gonna pin a rose on you just for doing your job. You remember that, Booton.
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : Ma, Ma, he called me by my right name! Did you hear him? He said it for the first time!
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Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : How do you feel?
Lincoln Costain : Well, I've... I've felt worse. I just can't remember when.
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Lincoln Costain : Where are we?
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : In Mom's spare bedroom.
Lincoln Costain : No. Where in the world are we?
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Lincoln Costain : You can't drown if you was meant for something worse.
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Lincoln Costain : When are you gonna stop calling me Mr. Costain, Ma'am.
Henrietta MacAvoy : When you stop calling me Ma'am, Mr. Costain.
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Lincoln Costain : [upon winning enough money in a poker game to take a ship off the island] Captain, if you're ever in Fort Worth, you look me up. I'll give you a chance to get even.
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Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : [as Costain is being taken out to the vessel in the middle of the ocean] Costain! I didn't hear the dinner bell ring, did you?
Lincoln Costain : [to the boatman] Turn around and row for shore.
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Henrietta MacAvoy : Mr. Costain, they'll never forget you for what you've done. They'll do anything for you now.
Lincoln Costain : We'll see who forgets who when the going gets rough, Ma'am.
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Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy : I told you they could do it, Costain.
Lincoln Costain : Well, if they can learn to punch cattle as well as they can learn to sing, they'll be alright.
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Lincoln Costain : [hauling cattle by the horns though the sea to the boat] Not so hearty when you can't get your feet planted are ya, huh?