Tector Gorch Quotes in The Wild Bunch (1969)

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Tector Gorch Quotes:

  • Tector Gorch: Silver rings.

    Dutch Engstrom: [upset] "Silver rings", your butt! Them's washers! Damn!

    Lyle Gorch: Washers. Washers. We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!

    Pike Bishop: They set it up.

    Lyle Gorch: "They"? Who in the hell is "they?"

    Sykes: [laughs hysterically] "They"? Why, they is the plain and fancy they, that's who "they" is! Caught you, didn't they? Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my, what a bunch! Big tough ones, hunh? Here you are with a handful of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They? Who the hell is "they?"

    Pike Bishop: Railroad men... bounty hunters... Deke Thornton.

  • Dutch Engstrom: [impressed] Well, I'd say those fellas know how to handle themselves!

    Sykes: They been fightin' Apaches for a thousand years; That's a sure way to learn.

    Pike Bishop: They ever get armed, with good leaders, this whole country'll go up in smoke!

    Sykes: That it will son, that it will.

    Lyle Gorch: They made damn fools out of us, Mr. Bishop! Gettin' so a feller can't sleep with both eyes closed for fear of gettin' his throat cut. Where in hell were you?

    Tector Gorch: Now you listen to me, Lyle - You get up off your ass and help once in a while, I wouldn'a got caught near s'easy.

  • Dutch Engstrom: What's our next move?

    Pike Bishop: Well, I figure Agua Verde's the closest... three days maybe. Then get the news and drift back to the border. Maybe a payroll, maybe a bank.

    Dutch Engstrom: Maybe that damn railroad.

    Tector Gorch: That damn railroad you're talkin' about, sure as hell ain't a-gettin' no easier.

    Sykes: And you boys ain't gettin' any younger either!

    [laughs]

    Pike Bishop: We've got to start thinking beyond our guns. Those days are closin' fast.

  • Lyle Gorch: All your fancy plannin' and talkin' damn near got us shot to pieces over a few lousy bags of washers. Well, this was goin' to be me and Tector's last job before we quit and headed south. We spent all our time and money a-gettin' ready for this!

    Pike Bishop: You spent all your time and money runnin' whores in Hondo while I spent my stake settin' it up.

    [throws down washer]

    Pike Bishop: Hell, I should have been runnin' whores instead of stealin' Army horses.

    Lyle Gorch: While you was doin' all that plannin', me and Tector was gettin' our bell rope pulled by two... two, mind you, Hondo whores!

    [starts laughing]

    Dutch Engstrom: [laughing] And Pike was dreamin' of washers... you were matching whores... in tandem!

    Lyle Gorch: What's that?

    Tector Gorch: That's one behind t'other.

    Lyle Gorch: That's right! That's what we was doin'!

  • Pike Bishop: [the Gorches are protesting the dividing up of the loot] Sharin' up will be the same as always.

    Lyle Gorch: Well, me and Tector don't think that he

    [points at Angel]

    Lyle Gorch: oughtta get the same amount. He's just startin' out and this is mine and Tector's openin' for a new territory!

    Tector Gorch: That's right, and I figure a share to that old goat

    [points at Sykes]

    Tector Gorch: for watchin' them horses is damn sure a share too much!

    Lyle Gorch: So, we decided; it ain't fair.

    Pike Bishop: If you two boys don't like equal shares, why in the hell don't you just take *all* of it?

    [pauses]

    Pike Bishop: Well, why don't you *answer* me, you damn yellow-livered trash?

    Lyle Gorch: [realizing the rest are backing Pike] Now, Pike, you know damn well...

    Pike Bishop: [angered] I don't know a damn thing, except I either *lead* this bunch, or end it *right now*!

  • Lyle Gorch: [the Bunch is riding into Angel's village] Hey, Angel! Why don't you tell your folks to feed them dogs?

    Angel: Any insult to my family while we are here and I will kill you!

    Lyle Gorch: Hey, Angel; do you have a sister?

    Angel: [angrily] Si!

    Lyle Gorch: [very politely] I'd be pleased to make her acquaintance. And that of your mama too!

    Tector Gorch: [laughing] And the same goes for your grandma, too Sonny!

  • Pike Bishop: You boys want to move on or stay here and give him a... decent burial?

    Tector Gorch: He was a good man, and I think we oughta bury him.

    Pike Bishop: He's DEAD! And he's got a lot of good men back there to keep him company!

    Lyle Gorch: Too damn many!

    Dutch Engstrom: [removes his hat] I think the boys are right. I'd like to say a few words for the dear, dead departed. And maybe a few hymns'd be in order. Followed by a church supper. With a choir!

    Lyle Gorch: You crazy bastards! Both of ya!

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