Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series)

Assignment in Gloribee (1962)

Rod Cameron: Nathan Chance

Quotes 

• [looking out at the desert] 

  Nathan Chance : A woman like you wouldn't stand much chance out there.

  Katherine Anne Murdock : Maybe better than here.

  Nathan Chance : I don't know about that. If some short-legged Comanche didn't lift that pretty rolled up hair of yours, the desert sun would sure cook the salt out of you.

  Katherine Anne Murdock : What a quaint way of putting it.

• Nathan Chance : You sure got a chin full of argument. What are you doing out here?

  Katherine Anne Murdock : I'm writing a book, if you must know.

  Nathan Chance : You know, I've only read one book in my entire life: Aesop's Fables. There's a story in there about a fox who wanted some grapes. He called 'em sour when he couldn't reach 'em. I reckon some folks are apt to feel that way about life when they can't quite grab hold.

• Hawk : Things were just gettin' interestin', Chance. What were you plannin' to do, save the lady from sin and corruption?

  Nathan Chance : I've got better things to do.

  Hawk : Well, that was the whole point of our bein' here. So far I haven't heard nothin' but music and the clink of glasses or that sceamin' female.

  Nathan Chance : Ain't you heard the clink of fifty thousand dollars?

  Hawk : No. Maybe my ears aren't so good.

  Nathan Chance : Wouldn't have to be good. They aren't more than twenty feet from you.

  [indicates Major Shankford] 

  Nathan Chance : It's in a belt around his waist.

  Hawk : A lot of fat to be carryin' around his middle.

  Nathan Chance : Bad for the heart.

• Nathan Chance : I told you no shootin', Hawk.

  Hawk : We got what we wanted.

  Nathan Chance : You're branchin' out. I don't like it!

  Hawk : Every man for himself, mister.

  Nathan Chance : Even wolves work together!

  Hawk : But the big one, the lobo, he calls the shots.

• Nathan Chance : I was always soft about cuttin' a man down for no reason.

  Hawk : I make my own reasons!

  Nathan Chance : Seems when I went south for a while, I left somebody to cut my throat.

  Hawk : Maybe it needed cuttin', Chance. The wolves - they don't follow no sheep.

• Nathan Chance : Like you said, Hawk. What I do is my own business.

  Hawk : I also said your throat needed cuttin', Chance. They don't call me "Hawk" for nothin'.

  Nathan Chance : Don't miss - you won't get a second chance.

• Katherine Anne Murdock : I-I want to thank you for saving my life.

  Nathan Chance : Don't thank me, New England - chew my head off like before. I like you better with the same kind of crust like I've got.