McLintock! Quotes

McLintock! is a television show that first aired in 1970 . McLintock! completed its run in 1970.

It features Michael Wayne as producer, De Vol in charge of musical score, and William H. Clothier as head of cinematography.

Each episode of McLintock! is 127 min. long. McLintock! is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Chill Wills as Drago, Maureen O'Hara as Katherine McClintock, John Wayne as George Washington McLintock, H.W. Gim as Ching, Stefanie Powers as Becky McLintock, Patrick Wayne as Devlin Warren, Bob Steele as Train Engineer, Perry Lopez as Davey Elk, Hank Worden as Curly Fletcher, Jerry Van Dyke as Matt Douglas Jr, Bruce Cabot as Ben Sage, Jerry Van Dyke as Matt Douglas, and Chuck Roberson as Sheriff Jeff Lord.

McLintock! Quotes

John Wayne as George Washington McLintock

• (John Wayne) "Dev, what are you doing?"
• (Patrick Wayne) "I just thought I'd get another cigar."
• (John Wayne) "Well you've got one in your mouth and two burning in the tray -- and that move."

• (John Wayne) "Well you old Cantonese reprobate, how 'bout it?"
• (H.W. Gim) "Ya fire me? I kill myself."
• (John Wayne) "I'm not talkin' about firing you I'm RETIRING you. You've been rustlin' food for us for forty years. We're gonna put you out to pasture. All you'll have to do is give advice, be one of the family."
• (H.W. Gim) "I kill myself."
• (John Wayne) "I may save you the trouble."
• (Chill Wills) "Hey Ching, you kill yourself, I'll cut of your pigtail and y'ain't never gonna get to Heaven."
• (H.W. Gim) "I'll be one of the family?"
• (John Wayne) "I give you my solemn word."
• (H.W. Gim) "Pretty crummy family. Drinkee too muchee. Get in fight. Yell alla time."
• (John Wayne) "Cut off his pigtail."
• (H.W. Gim) "ALRIGHT, I BE ONE OF THE FAMILY."

• (John Wayne) "You women are always raising hell about one thing when it's something else you're really sore about. Don't you think it's about time you told me what put the burr under your saddle about me?"

• (John Wayne) "No go Kate."
• (Maureen O'Hara) "Why you animal."
• (John Wayne) "Half the people in the world are women. Why does it have to be you that stirs me?"

• (John Wayne) "I've got a touch of hangover, bureaucrat. Don't push me."

• (John Wayne) "You've caused a lot of trouble this morning might have got somebody killed. Somebody oughta belt you in the mouth but I wont, I wont to hell I wont"

• (John Wayne) "Don't say it's a fine morning or I'll shoot ya."

• (John Wayne) "Becky. Come here. Somethin' I ought to tell you. Guess now's as good a time as any. You're going to have every young buck west of the Missouri around here tryin' to marry you; mostly because you're a handsome filly, but partly because I own everything in this country from here to there. They'll think you're going to inherit it. Well, you're not. I'm going to leave most of it to, well, to the nation really, for a park where no lumbermen'll cut down all the trees for houses with leaky roofs. Nobody'll kill all the beaver for hats for dudes nor murder the buffalo for robes. What I'm going to give you is a 500 cow spread on the Upper Green River. Now that may not seem like much, but it's more than we had, your mother and I. Some folks are gonna say I'm doin' all this so I can sit up in the hereafter and look down on a park named after me, or that I was disappointed in you; didn't want you to get all that money. But the real reason, Becky, is because I love you, and I want you and some young man to have what I had, because all the gold in the United States Treasury and all the harp music in heaven can't equal what happens between a man and a woman with all that growin' together. I can't explain it any better than that."

• (John Wayne) "Agard, if you knew anything about Indians, you'd know that they're doing their level best to put up with our so-called 'benevolent patronage' in spite of the nincompoops that've been put in charge of it."

• (John Wayne) "And I am not intoxicated -- yet."

• (John Wayne) "Hello, Ben."
• (Bruce Cabot) "Hey, McLintock."
• (John Wayne) "Drago, throw that in the buggy."
• (Bruce Cabot) "That's a scrubby bunch of sooners, eh?"
• (John Wayne) "They are at that."
• (Young Ben Sage) "Ought to make Douglas happy. Lining his pocket with land fees."
• (Bruce Cabot) "What are we gonna do?"
• (John Wayne) "I don't know what you're going to do, Ben. Me I do nothing."
• (Young Ben Sage) "Two hundred families. Quarter of beef a week per family. They last two years that could become a sizable number."
• (John Wayne) "I've got 20 head to 1 of any other brand on the Mesa Verdi. I'm not hollerin'."
• (Young Ben Sage) "Some of us haven't got all the money in the world. Some of us aren't old and tired, feel like bein' put upon."
• (John Wayne) "You interest me, young Ben. Go on."
• (Young Ben Sage) "So the first time I find one of our hides wearin' our brand hung on one of those settler's fences I aim to kill me a plow boy. You do what you want, McLintock, we'll do what we want."
• (John Wayne) "Fellas my age generally call me G.W. or McLintock. Youngsters call me Mr. McLintock."
• (Young Ben Sage) "Alright. Mr. McLintock. Not because I'm afraid of ya. You're the big he stud of this country and I recon a fella my age should call you mister."
• (Bruce Cabot) "He's full grown now, G.W. He's half owner of the spread. I made him a full partner the day the doc gave me the long face."
• (John Wayne) "Well, you want him to vote the first time this territory becomes a state, don't ya?"
• (Bruce Cabot) "Course I do."
• (John Wayne) "These settler's get burned out there'll be a lot of hollerin' that this country's too wild to be a state. We'll go on being a territory some more with a lot of political appointees runnin' it according to what they learned in some college where they think that cows are something you milk and Indians are something in front of a cigar store. I'm lookin' to you to hold young Ben down."
• (Bruce Cabot) "I'll do what I can."
• (John Wayne) "Come on over to the house now and then. We'll rack up a few hands of stud."
• (Bruce Cabot) "G.W. that'll be just fine."

• (John Wayne) "I saw your picture in the paper at the Governor's Ball. You were dancing with the governor."
• (Maureen O'Hara) "At least he's a gentleman."
• (John Wayne) "I doubt that. You have to be a man first before you're a gentleman. He misses on both counts."

• (John Wayne) "You know, if we had any moral character, we wouldn't be standing here covered with mud drinkin', when we should be washing."
• (Chill Wills) "G.W.?"
• (John Wayne) "Drago."

• (John Wayne) "Now, we'll all calm down."
• (Chill Wills) "Take it easy, boss, he's just a little excited, that's all."
• (John Wayne) "I know, I know. I'm gonna use good judgement. I haven't lost my temper in forty years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have got somebody killed -- and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't, I won't. The hell I won't."

• (John Wayne) "This is probably the first marriage I've ever seen that started out with a spanking."

• (John Wayne) "Cuthbert H. Humphrey, Governor of our territory, is a cull. Do you know what a cull is, ma'am? A cull is a specimen that is so worthless that you have to cut him out of the herd. Now if all the people in the world were put in one herd, Cuthbert is the one I would throw a rope at."

• (John Wayne) "I came close to killing you a couple of times when I was younger. I'm sad I didn't."

• (John Wayne) "Drago, I am sleeping in the den."

Maureen O'Hara as Katherine McClintock

• (Maureen O'Hara) "What's going on here?"
• (John Wayne) "Now Katherine, are you going to believe what you see, or what I tell you?"

Chill Wills as Drago

• (Chill Wills) "I'm sorry Katherine; that Katie just slipped out from times when I remember you as being nice people --"
• (Maureen O'Hara) "Are you going to stand there with that stupid look on your face while the hired help insults your wife?"
• (John Wayne) "He can't help it; he's just ignorant. He doesn't know any better than to tell the truth. And I can't help this stupid look. I started acquiring it as you gained in social prominence."

H.W. Gim as Ching

• (H.W. Gim) "Crummy family, crummy family."

Stefanie Powers as Becky McLintock

• (Stefanie Powers) "Such vulgarity. Somebody should do something."
• (Jerry Van Dyke) "You're right -- absolutely right."

• (Stefanie Powers) "Shoot him, Daddy. Shoot him at once."

• (Stefanie Powers) "You are my father and if you do love me you will shoot him."
• (John Wayne) "I'm your father and I sure love you."
• (Stefanie Powers) "You shot him. You really shot him. If he dies --"
• (John Wayne) "If he dies he will be the first man killed with a blank cartridge. We use this to start the races on the fourth."
• (Stefanie Powers) "You poor dear."
• (Patrick Wayne) "Poor dear? You would of had me shot down in cold blood."

• (Stefanie Powers) "Junior's not a dude; he's nifty."

• (Stefanie Powers) "DADDY. Ooh, I've never been so humiliated in my life."
• (Patrick Wayne) "I said what I said, and I'll stand by it to the death."
• (Stefanie Powers) "Shoot him. Shoot him at once."
• (John Wayne) "Shoot him? What for?"
• (Stefanie Powers) "My HONOR is at stake."
• (John Wayne) "Well, now. Your HONOR --"
• (Stefanie Powers) "Yes. He IMPUGNED my honor."
• (John Wayne) "Impugned? What's that mean?"
• (Stefanie Powers) "Slandered. He SLANDERED my honor."
• (John Wayne) "He did?"
• (Patrick Wayne) "I said what I said, and I'll stand by it to the death."
• (Stefanie Powers) "He ADMITS it, see?"
• (John Wayne) "Well, what is he admitting to?"
• (Stefanie Powers) "Well, he called me a -- I can't even repeat the word."
• (Patrick Wayne) "I didn't necessarily call you anything, but I said what I said, and I'll stand by it to the death."
• (John Wayne) "Well, just for the tally books, what DID you say?"
• (Patrick Wayne) "I said, 'any woman that allows a man to kiss her before they're formally engaged is a TROLLOP.'"
• (Stefanie Powers) "HE SAID IT AGAIN. SHOOT HIM."

• (Stefanie Powers) "Oh you poor dear."
• (Patrick Wayne) "Poor dear? You'd a had me shot in cold blood. Yelling I insulted you an all. What you need is a good spanking."
• (Stefanie Powers) "Daddy?"
• (John Wayne) "Leave me out of this."
• (Patrick Wayne) "And I think I'll give you what you deserve?"
• (Stefanie Powers) "You wouldn' dare."

• (Stefanie Powers) "You are my father and if you do love me you will shoot him"
• (Stefanie Powers) "."
• (John Wayne) "I'm your father and I sure love you"
• (Stefanie Powers) "You shot him you really shot him If he."
• (John Wayne) "If he dies he will be the first man killed with a blank cartridge. We use this to start the races on the fourth."

Bob Steele as Train Engineer

• (Bob Steele) "Hey Davey, I got something for ya."
• (Perry Lopez) "Yeah?"
• (Bob Steele) "The station master down at the junction told me to let 'em ride, so I locked 'em in here. I've had my scalp a long time, and I aim on keepin' it."

Patrick Wayne as Devlin Warren

• (Patrick Wayne) "About that job Mr. McLintock."
• (John Wayne) "Look son, I told ya, I got no need for farmers. Or use for them either."
• (Patrick Wayne) "Just one minute, Mr. McLintock. My father died last month, how come we don't have a homestead. I've got a mother, a little sister to feed. I need that job badly."
• (John Wayne) "What's your name?"
• (Patrick Wayne) "Devlin Warren."
• (John Wayne) "Well, you've got a job. Go see my home ranch forman. He's over by the corral."
• (Patrick Wayne) "Step down off that carriage, mister."
• (John Wayne) "Hold that hog leg. I've been punched many a time in my life but never for hirin' anyone."
• (Patrick Wayne) "I don't know what to say. Never begged before. Turned my stomach. I suppose I should have been grateful that you gave me the job."
• (John Wayne) "Gave? Boy, you've got it all wrong. I don't give jobs I hire men."
• (Chill Wills) "You intend to give this man a full day's work, don'tcha boy?"
• (Patrick Wayne) "You mean you're still hirin' me? Well, yes, sir, I certainly deliver a fair day's work."
• (John Wayne) "And for that I'll pay you a fair day's wage. You won't give me anything and I won't give you anything. We both hold up our heads. Is that your plug?"
• (Patrick Wayne) "Yes sir."
• (John Wayne) "Well, hop on him and we'll go get your gear."

Hank Worden as Curly Fletcher

• (Hank Worden) "Makes seven times this month he's come home swoggled."
• (Chill Wills) "Six."
• (Hank Worden) "Seven."
• (Chill Wills) "Six. Once was his birthday; that don't count."

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