The Plainsman Quotes

The Plainsman is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Plainsman completed its run in 1970.

It features Cecil B. DeMille as producer, George Antheil in charge of musical score, and Victor Milner as head of cinematography.

The Plainsman is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Plainsman is 113 minutes long. The Plainsman is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok, Charles Judels as Tony, Helen Burgess as Louisa Cody, James Ellison as Buffalo Bill Cody, Charles Bickford as John Lattimer, Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane, Granville Bates as Van Ellyn, and Porter Hall as Jack McCall.

The Plainsman Quotes

Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok

• (Gary Cooper) "Hey. Your toothpick is on fire."

• (Gary Cooper) "How do you like your bacon, Bill?"
• (James Ellison) "I like my bacon fine."

• (Gary Cooper) "This is a big country and trails cross -- sometimes."

• (Gary Cooper) "Women and me don't agree"

• (Gary Cooper) "That river clipper is saying good-bye to you, ma'am. Now you're going to have three long days of this prairie clipper."
• (Helen Burgess) "But tomorrow is Sunday. Do we have to ride on Sunday?"
• (Gary Cooper) "Well, there's no Sunday west of Junction City, no law west of Hayes City and no God west of Carson City."

• (Gary Cooper) "What started you on the warpath, Yellow Hand?"
• (Unnamed) "Where sun rise, white man's land. Where sun set, Indian land. White man come, take our land, kill buffalo, our food. White man promise us food. White man lie. Now Cheyenne buy white man thunder stick. Soon war drum sound in all Indian land. All tribes ride with Yellow Hand. We drive white man, like buffalo, away back to rising sun. Yellow Hand has spoken."

• (Gary Cooper) "I see she hasn't cut your hair -- yet."

• (Gary Cooper) "It's easier sliding up Niagara Falls than it is to understand a woman."

• (Gary Cooper) "Keep your hands off your guns or there will be more dead men here than this town can afford to bury."

• (Gary Cooper) "Son, one of these days, you're going to grow up and you ought to know about women. You see, the thing is this; women are -- uh, well, they're uh -- Well, son, I can tell you what an Indian will do to ya, but you never know what a woman will do."

Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane

• (Jean Arthur) "You're a mule-headed man, Bill Hickok."

• (Jean Arthur) "What are you smoking? Chalk?"

• (Jean Arthur) "Maybe you're just bein' nice to me because you think you won't ever see me again."
• (Gary Cooper) "Sure, sure I'll see you again. This is a big country and trails cross sometimes."

• (Jean Arthur) "Tip your hat when you speak to a lady."
• (Gary Cooper) "I will -- when I speak to a lady."

Charles Bickford as John Lattimer

• (Charles Bickford) "I'm not armed, Mr. Hickok, I'm not armed."
• (Gary Cooper) "I'll give you three minutes to fix that. I'll be waiting outside."
• (Charles Bickford) "I'm just leaving town."
• (Gary Cooper) "You're not leaving town unless dead men can walk."

Porter Hall as Jack McCall

• (Porter Hall) "I'm gonna be a big man in this country."
• (Jean Arthur) "You're gonna have to grow a foot, won't yuh?"

Helen Burgess as Louisa Cody

• (Helen Burgess) "Will, does he kill like that?"
• (James Ellison) "Ain't a corpse-maker like him, honey."

Charles Judels as Tony

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Granville Bates as Van Ellyn

• (Unnamed) "But we can't sell rifles to the Indians."
• (Granville Bates) "I think we can -- to peaceable Indians."

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