Sam Hollis Quotes in Texas Across the River (1966)

[Sam and Baldy's "duel" ends when both men come face-to-face without drawing]

Sam Hollis: Well, what are you waiting for?

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: For you to start... itching.

Phoebe Ann Naylor: Well, it's plain to see you're no gentleman!

[admiring Phoebe Ann's figure barely concealed by a wet blanket]

Sam Hollis: Well, it's plain to see you're not one, either.

Sam Hollis: Why couldn't you have been born a Comanche?

Kronk: Mother run too fast.

Sam Hollis: Baldy's grave is down by the corral. The jury dug it before the trial started.

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: This is night. Are you going to sleep?

Sam Hollis: Well, it ain't healthy to travel through Comanche territory in the daytime, so we'll travel at night.

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: Oh, when we ride, the savage sleeps. Yes?

Sam Hollis: Yep. Them Comanches believe the moon is an evil spirit.

Sam Hollis: Why you dumb, fool tenderfoot! Are you trying to take on that whole tribe single-handed?

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: When one is alone, one must become an army.

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: Ten paces.

Sam Hollis: Ten paces?

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: Why, that is customary. Do you wish to give the command to begin or shall I?

Sam Hollis: I don't know what you got in mind, Baldy, but I'm here for a shootout.

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: Precisely. You take ten steps that way; I take ten steps this way. Then we turn...

Sam Hollis: Turn? Step? I ain't here for no square dance! Now which end of town do you want to come from?

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: You stand so; I stand so. And then...

Sam Hollis: Back to back? Now what kind of shootout is that?

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: Please Sam Hollis. I have dueled many times in Spain and I'm...

Sam Hollis: But this isn't Spain - it's Texas!

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: Even a simple duel you cannot perform in a civilized manner!

Sam Hollis: We have had civilized killings around here for years. I come from one end of town like this and you come from the other end... and you get the itch, you draw.

[during an Indian attack, the settlers run out of ammunition]

Kronk: Gun empty.

Sam Hollis: Yell, "Bang-bang."

Kronk: For Comanche need bullets, not jokes.

[last lines]

[an oil gusher erupts from the grave Lt. Sibley was digging]

Kronk: Every time dig hole, black poison shoot up! Now have to move town.

Don Andrea Baldazar aka Baldy: [disgusted] Texas. Pah!

Sam Hollis: Eh, if it was up to me, I'd give it back to the Indians.

Iron Jacket: Who wants it?

[Baldy attempts to rescue an Indian girl from a rattlesnake wielding medicine man]

Sam Hollis: He either likes girls or he's crazy about snakes.

Kronk: Comanche run for hills.

[Looks at Sam Hollis]

Kronk: Why you look so funny?

Sam Hollis: [In Kornk's language] Too mah kunoh tee hee sooti kaygoh-honi. And one laugh outta you and I'll boot you so hard your whole tribe'll fall down.