Back to 'Movies starring Roy Rogers (1939-42)
| Year: | July, 1940 |
| Starring: | Roy Rogers |
| Jacqueline Wells | |
| Si Jenks as Hank Purdy | |
| Highlights: | Gabby has lots of screen time. |
| Gabby is in his characteristic garb with a fringed jacket. | |
| Gabby does his kick-em'-in-the-shin followed by a double-handed uppercut. | |
| Gabby 'throws' his shots in the final shootout. | |
| Overall rating: | Excellent. |
| Good chemistry with Si. | |
Click Gabby's image to hear the sound bite.
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| Gabby: | "I'm fixin' to resign, adjourn and quit." | |
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| Gabby: | "He's got it...'Petticoat Fever'." | |
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| Gabby: | "All females is naturally peculiar...including squaws." | |
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| (Gabby remarks about his scalp collection) | ||
| Gabby: | "Well, I got plenty of Pawnees and Blackfeet...but I'm a leetle-might shy on | |
| Comanche." | ||
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| (Gabby and Purdy comment about their shooting contest which consisted of | ||
| shooting the feathers on an Indian's headress (while it was being worn). | ||
| Purdy: | "That fool Indian twitched on the third shot." | |
| "I seen him do it." | ||
| Gabby: | "Yeah...I catch 'em in mid-twitch, myself." | |
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| Purdy: | "I'll be toten that knife before this is over." | |
| "Watch out I don't scalp you with it" | ||
| Gabby: | "Yeah...I've been scalped by better men than you, Hank Purdy." | |
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| Gabby: | "That gal's poison, plumb poison." | |
| "Let her go...the further the better." | ||
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| Gabby: | "But messin' with that she-male is like flying in the face of Providence." | |
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| Gabby: | "You expect to make Rangers out of that bunch of lop-eared broomtails." | |
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| Gabby: | "You look as if that Tabor girl had you hexed and discombobulated." | |
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| Gabby: | "I never woulda took you to be a skunk, Purdy." | |
| Purdy: | "Tend to your own hide and fur, Gabby." | |
| Gabby: | "I'm tending." | |
| "You aim to keep galavanting around with that Tabor female...things are gonna | ||
| begin to commence to happen." | ||
| Purdy: | "A-twixt us?" | |
| Gabby: | "A-twixt us." | |
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| Gabby: | "Oh, be still and heshup." | |
| "I've seen Cherokee Injuns complain less when they're being scalped." | ||
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| Purdy: | "There she is." | |
| "I felt her sting me." | ||
| Gabby: | "Oh, keep your britches on." | |
| "You've been hit before." | ||