Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the 13th Man (1959)

Paul Brinegar: Wishbone

Quotes 

• Wishbone : On a drive, the one thing you gotta have to keep the cattle movin' is men. Trouble with that is, each man thinks without him, everything comes to a standstill. Fact is there's only one man the drive can't do without: he's the one who keeps the men goin' who keep the cattle movin'. He's the cook. That's my job. My name's Wishbone, feeder of the Gil Favor outfit. This idiot beside me is the cook's louse, Mushy.

• Gene Matson : Yes, friend, you've got a lot of trouble.

  Wishbone : Considering the kind of trouble you got, I don't like to complain about mine.

• Rowdy Yates : Gene Matson, Surgeon and Dentist.

  Wishbone : And Undertaker.

  Rowdy Yates : [Rowdy surveys the quiet street]  Looks like he's been busy.

• Wishbone : Are you trying to tell me that prosecutor's crooked?

  Ott : The Prosecutor, the Defence Attorney, every official in this town. Even the Judge wishes he wasn't here.

  Wishbone : Well, I don't believe it. Not in this day and age.

• Wishbone : We're supposed to passing on what went on out in that courtroom. But we're talking around it, up and down it and inside and out it. But we're not talking about it.

• Mort Billings : You got a way out?

  Wishbone : Have an open vote.

  Ed Shore : And that way, we flush out the spy.

• Wishbone : Well, it's as clear as the supper gong at sunset, the man must be guilty.