The Rebel (TV Series)

The Executioner (1961)

Nick Adams: Johnny Yuma

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• Chief Le Blanc : Yet three of our braves are held in the wooden lodges you call Carson City.

  Johnny Yuma : That is wrong, but I am no chief among my people.

• Johnny Yuma : Sherrif, the Kiowa say that Le Blanc's mother died when he was born, died from being manhandled by a French trapper. Now, Le Blanc figures the Great Spirit made him without colour on purpose, so that he couldn't look at his own skin without feeling his bitterness toward our kind.

• Johnny Yuma : But the Kiowa say more. They say Le Blanc broke his war lance, turned his thoughts to peace.

  Chief Le Blanc : We do not paint our faces. We hunt food, not scalps.

  Johnny Yuma : Then I think Le Blanc's hunters can't tell a man from an antelope.

• Sheriff : Son, I'll flat out and tell you once more: You're on a fool's errand.

  Johnny Yuma : Well, then, I guess I'm the right man for the job.

  Sheriff : What good'll do for you to die too?

• Johnny Yuma : Lady, don't let his colour fool you. He hates light skin, and he hates light hair. You go wiggling up to him and it'll be like waving a flag in front of a mad bull. He speaks good English. He learnt it so he could understand his prisoners when they come begging him for a quicker death.

• Johnny Yuma : Ferguson,

  [the salesman in the suit] 

  Johnny Yuma : you haven't lived much like a man. But at least you could die like one.