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The Lusty Men Quotes

The Lusty Men is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Lusty Men completed its run in 1970.

It features Jerry Wald as producer, Roy Webb in charge of musical score, and Lee Garmes as head of cinematography.

The Lusty Men is distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.

The cast includes: Robert Mitchum as Jeff McCloud, Walter Coy as Buster Burgess, Susan Hayward as Louise Merritt, Arthur Kennedy as Wes Merritt, Carol Nugent as Rusty Davis, and Arthur Hunnicutt as Booker Davis.

The Lusty Men Quotes

Walter Coy as Buster Burgess

  • (Walter Coy) "Who's in the shower?"
  • (Robert Mitchum) "Lady."
  • (Susan Hayward) "Jeff, can you hand me a towel?"
  • (Walter Coy) "I'll get it."
  • (Walter Coy) "That ain't Rosemary."
  • (Robert Mitchum) "Nooooooo."

Carol Nugent as Rusty Davis

  • (Carol Nugent) "You're new, ain't ya'?"
  • (Arthur Kennedy) "Yeah."
  • (Carol Nugent) "Got two bits?"
  • (Arthur Kennedy) "Sure."
  • (Carol Nugent) "Gimme'."
  • (Carol Nugent) "Okay, let him have a look."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "You ever see anything like that before?"
  • (Arthur Kennedy) "Sure is the worst lookin' leg I've ever seen."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Twenty years rodeoin' done that. Leg busted nine times, kneecap five, and the ankle four."
  • (Robert Mitchum) "Booker's got just about the most busted leg in the world."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "Nobody'll ever beat it unless they jump off one of them New York skyscrapers."
  • (Carol Nugent) "Last time Booker broke it, doctors wanted to cut it off."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "It was up in Denver."
  • (Carol Nugent) "He got right off the operating table, got some crutches and headed for New Mexico in our pickup truck."
  • (Arthur Hunnicutt) "That night a big blizzard come up and I had to pull into one of them there motels. Had no sooner got in bed than my leg started hurtin'; got to hurtin' pretty bad. Finally I got up and pushed my bed over to the window and opened it and stuck my leg out. Pretty soon the leg froze up and the pain went away. Next mornin' I got up and thawed it out in front of a stove, drove on to Santa Fe. I won four firsts that day."

Arthur Kennedy as Wes Merritt

  • (Arthur Kennedy) "A fella's bankroll could get fat in a hurry, rodeoin'."
  • (Robert Mitchum) "Bahh -- Chicken today, feathers tomorrow."
  • (Arthur Kennedy) "Not if he played it smart when he had the chicken."

Susan Hayward as Louise Merritt

  • (Susan Hayward) "Wes tells me you once made three thousand dollars in one day, rodeoin'."
  • (Robert Mitchum) "That's right."
  • (Susan Hayward) "And threw it all away."
  • (Robert Mitchum) "Oh, I didn't throw it away. It just sorta' -- floated."
  • (Susan Hayward) "That's pretty stupid, breakin' all your bones, then lettin' the money go."

Robert Mitchum as Jeff McCloud

  • (Robert Mitchum) "There never was a bronc that couldn't be rode, there never a cowboy that couldn't be throwed. Guys like me last forever."
  • (Robert Mitchum) "I do think I oughta kiss you just once, though, for all the times I won't."
  • (Robert Mitchum) "Old Book used to be one of the best bronc riders in the business."
  • (Arthur Kennedy) "What happened?"
  • (Robert Mitchum) "Punchy. Bronc shook his brains loose. He's head wrangler for Dawson now."
  • (Unnamed) "You a thinkin' man?"
  • (Robert Mitchum) "Oh, I can get in out of the rain. That's about all."
  • (Robert Mitchum) "Hope's a funny thing. You can have it even when there ain't no reason for it."
  • (Unnamed) "You a thinkin' man?"
  • (Robert Mitchum) "Oh, I can get in out of the rain. That's about all."
  • (Unnamed) "Me, I'm a thinkin' man. This is what I think. One 'o the things that's wrong is all the books and rules on success is written by successful men. Now that's wrong. Fellers like you and me'd get a lot more help if the books and rules on success was written by a failure. That'd make sense."

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