Paint Your Wagon (1969)

Harve Presnell: Rotten Luck Willie

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Quotes 

• [Ben and Partner are walking through the mining camp] 

  Ben Rumson : Hi, Willy! How're things goin'?

  'Rotten Luck'Willie : I ain't won a hand in two weeks.

  Ben Rumson : (to Partner) They call him 'Rotten Luck' Willie. You couldn't beat him with five aces.

  Pardner : Oh, I don't gamble.

  Ben Rumson : Neither does he.

• Rumson : Hey, Willie, were's the future father of our country?

  'Rotten Luck'Willie : Oh, he'll be along as soon as his parents go to sleep.

  Rumson : Could you tell him that I want to see him?

  'Rotten Luck'Willie : Leave your room door open at wait your turn like everyone else.

• Pardner : [Horace Tabor has opposed Ben's plan to kidnap the French prostitutes]  Horace is right,Ben ! We can't bring them women here. Why, you bring them here and the next thing you know, you got to build a place for them to stay, people will be coming in from all over and they'll need somewhere to stay. Schermehorn and these other merchants will have to stock up on suplies to sell. Then Willie will have to open a saloon or two with gambling and drinkin'. Why before you know it, this place will be a boom town and we don't want that!

  Ben : [winking at Partner]  Your right, Partner. I never thought of it that way. Why you can't expect people to put up with that! I apologize, boys; I never thought of what might happen if we bring in those five French tarts!

  'Rotten Luck'Willie : [smiling]  I call for a vote on Ben's proposal! Any man who votes against it is a traitor!

• Ben Rumson : You mean to tell me you ain't never had a woman neither?

  Horton : No, sir.

  Ben Rumson : This is serious. You know you could go blind? Come here.

  [to 'Rotten Luck' Willie] 

  Ben Rumson : Willie, if a young man was goin' trappin' for the first time and wanted a guide, somebody who would be patient with him and show him the way things are to be done; what kind of guide would you choose?

  'Rotten Luck'Willie : [Thinking]  Ah, that would be Gracie.

• 'Rotten Luck'Willie : [singing]  Away out here they got a name, for rain and wind and fire. The rain is Tess, the fire Joe and they call the wind Maria!