Dan O'Herlihy: John Cord

Quotes 

• Rowdy Yates : Wait a minute, Cord. Mr Favor didn't even like you. In fact, you came in here and insulted him. And now you're gonna to take the herd over? You're crazy, Mister.

  John Cord : You think fighting's gonna prove anything, even if you lick me?

• John Cord : I hear it.

  Jose Becerra : I told you we shouldn't have risked the fire.

  John Cord : I told you I'm not hiding from anybody. Let them come.

  Jose Becerra : They have no honour. They shoot you in the back.

  John Cord : Not with you facing me, Joe. Besides there's only one and he's making too much noise. I've got a hunch who it is.

• Rowdy Yates : Let's wake 'em up.

  John Cord : No. I don't to be pushed over in the badlands. Those two year olds started it, all the chuck wagon followers, the rest will follow in afterwards.

  Rowdy Yates : That way they're all gonna be spread out.

  John Cord : Have to be. In single file. I don't want them all bunched up in this stuff.

• John Cord : Texas fever? Pocs, cholera.

  Jose Becerra : Don't know. It's strange.

  John Cord : What is it, Mr Favor?

  Gil Favor : Don't worry about it. Nothing catching.

  John Cord : What's wrong. Tell us, man.

  Gil Favor : I took a hit in the war, skull fracture. They warned me it might bother me someday. Could mean brain fever, blindness, maybe worse. Anyway, a man can't push a trail herd with half a mind.

  John Cord : How do you know what this is?

  Gil Favor : It's like they told me. Bad headaches, everything blurry, hard to think.

• John Cord : [to Rowdy]  Now you better ride up ahead with Nolan and see the trail we have to take. You'll be better to handle it.

• Gil Favor : I'm gonna quit it and go back East one of these days, I swear.

  John Cord : Let me know when you do. I'd like to hire your crew, every man of them.

  Gil Favor : You're showing better sense than I thought you'd have.

  John Cord : They're good. I don't know why they stay with you.

  Gil Favor : Matter of fact, I don't either.