- Ninfa, Whore at Marguerita's: I am the best French kisser in Chile Verde.
- Abel Wood: If I come across a Frenchman, I'll be sure to let him know.
- Marguerita Ventura: You bitch!
- Rosie Velez: Ever since I came here, you've done nothing but treat me like shit. Who the hell do you think you are? Yeah, I was a dance hall girl, but what makes you so high and mighty? You own a whorehouse! A whorehouse!... and with only three whores in it. One of them is just a senile old cow.
- [aside to Big Ed]
- Rosie Velez: No offense, honey.
- [back to Maguerita]
- Rosie Velez: And the other one's so new at it, she doesn't know which end to use. So what does that make you? The only whore in Chili Verde. Yeah, I came here for the gold, because I've been poor all my life.
- Marguerita Ventura: You've got it all wrong, honey. You've been cheap all your life.
- Rosie Velez: Cheap?
- [picks up a chair, and breaks it over Maguerita]
- Rosie Velez: This furniture is cheap.
- Hard Case Williams: Being a leader of men is a very solitary business, miss. So I've been very concerned about my men's libidos until you so conveniently came on the scene.
- Rosie Velez: I'm afraid I don't understand, sir. Are you speaking English? Eso es ingles?
- Hard Case Williams: Poon tang! Poon tang! Is that any clearer little lady? My curse is that I've received the education befitting the son of a Boston preacher, may he rot in hellfire. But I do believe that you get the thrust of my meaning. My men are as horny as jackrabbits.
- Father Garcia: Do not be afraid, my son. They will not shoot while I am beside you.
- Hardcase Williams: Hah! Don't count on it, Father. It's a good day for me when I get to kill a priest!
- Father Garcia: I'll be in the church.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Our passions are like fire and water: good servants, but, poor masters. The legend of Chile Verde tells of men and women who became slaves to their passions. They paid the price here under the blistering, burning, blazing, scorching, roasting, toasting, baking, boiling, broiling, steaming, searing, sizzling, grilling, smoldering, VERY HOT New Mexico sun. For there is a saying in these parts: those who lust in the dust shall die in the dust.
- Marguerita Ventura: [at Rosie, who is scrubbing the floor] There *are* other ways of earning your keep around here, you know.
- [implying prostitution]
- Rosie Velez: I'd rather die first.
- Marguerita Ventura: Why, Sugar, you must've died a thousand times.
- [laughing]
- Maguerita Ventura: [singing] Let me take you south of my border, just north of my garter, Where everything's on order, for you, Where it's sweet like a potion, Feel the heat, Feel the motion...
- Rosie Velez: Marguerita?
- Marguerita Ventura: The customers call me "Marguerita". The territory calls me "Marguerita". My real close friends call me "Miss Ventura."
- [Rosie is trying to coax her mule]
- Rosie Velez: Only a few more little miles. Only a few more itsy-bitsy, eeny-weeny little miles...
- [angry]
- Rosie Velez: ... and then you can drop dead, you miserable hunk of shit!
- Rosie Velez: Where are you doing? Don't leave me out here, mister! Oh, I beg you! My ass is on its last legs! I'll die! I've got nothing to eat!
- [Abel looks up, and shoots in the air. A dead vulture crashes to earth]
- Rosie Velez: [sarcastic] Thanks.
- [Hard Case's gang moves forward to rape Rosie]
- Rosie Velez: No! Stop! Wait! I'm a...
- [looks down]
- Rosie Velez: ...virgin.
- Hard Case Williams: A virgin? Really?
- [Rosie nods yes]
- Hard Case Williams: That DOES make a difference. Then I'LL go first.
- [Hard Case starts sneezing violently]
- Hard Case Williams: I've had carnal knowledge of 215 women and two goats...
- Chang, Hard Case Gang: And the chicken?
- [Hard Case makes a so-so gesture]
- Maguerita Ventura: [at Rosie, who is scrubbing the floor] Finished, Honey?
- Rosie Velez: You could eat off this floor. And *you* probably will.
- Marguerita Ventura: Lose your way, Honey?
- Rosie Velez: Well, it's the cockroach's shift. *I* sleep from 3 to 10.
- Marguerita Ventura: If you don't like this place, you can git.
- Rosie Velez: Oh, yeah. Well I ain't going nowhere until I find that gold that everybody's been so careful *not* to mention.
- Marguerita Ventura: You think you can just breeze into town and dig it up, huh? Buena suerte. Some of us have been looking for it for *years*.
- Rosie Velez: [snidely] You can tell.
- Marguerita Ventura: [insinuating Rosie killed Red Dick] So... that only leaves *one* person.
- Rosie Velez: Don't look at me; I slept like a log.
- Marguerita Ventura: Why not? You look like one.
- Hardcase Williams: Hey! Be careful with those scissors.
- Marguerita Ventura: [sticks scissors up against his crotch] Okay big boy, one move out of you, one lie, and I'll be wearing your jinglebobs for earrings. Nod if you follow my drift.
- [Big Ed comes in the room to see Hardcase Williams tied up and naked on the bed]
- Big Ed: Mr. Williams, you should be ashamed of yourself.
- Hardcase Williams: Think nothing of it. It's just an early morning condition. A lot of men get it. Would you untie me?
- Big Ed: [impressed by his erection] Oh, my goodness!
- Hardcase Williams: Lady, this is no time to be pointing an accusing finger.
- Big Ed: At least it's only my finger that's pointing!
- Father Garcia: How long has it been since your last confession, my son?
- Abel Wood: 'Bout twenty years.
- Father Garcia: [pricks himself with needle while sewing] Aye!
- Abel Wood: I just have to get a few things off my chest... Lets see, first there was, uh, this girl in El Paso... her mother... and her grand-mother.
- [continuing confession in a later scene]
- Father Garcia: Many men like horses, my son.
- Abel Wood: But Doc Holliday *really* liked horses, Father. Well, what do you think he was doing in the O.K. Corral early in the morning?
- [continuing confession in a later scene]
- Abel Wood: And then there was the time with the two lockjaw Indian maidens.
- Father Garcia: You mean "Choctaw" Indians, my son. There are no "lockjaw" Indians.
- Abel Wood: There are now.
- Abel Wood: Father, I hear a lot of folks talking about gold. Know anything about that?
- Father Garcia: [chuckling] I knew that's why you were here. The legend of the gold keeps this town alive. That is why they are all here. These are ruthless men... and women. Mm, they're also very stupid. Some of them here for years, and still they cannot solve the puzzle.
- Abel Wood: What puzzle?
- Father Garcia: The limerick. Until the limerick is solved, the gold will never be found.
- Abel Wood: Just.. just how does this limerick go?
- Father Garcia: "There was a young fellow from Scotland, Who robbed the New Mexico hot land. In a grave situation, two butes his salvation. He buried the gold... But in what land?"
- Father Garcia: [levelling a rifle at them] Get away from that gold!
- Hard Case Williams: Everybody move around a little bit.
- Abel Wood: Father, am I ever glad to see you.
- Father Garcia: Drop the guns, please. This is stolen treasure.
- Hard Case Williams: I think we kinda' figured that out ourselves, you old fart. Cactus Kaplan, right?
- Father Garcia: He robbed the Las Cruces Bank. A posse tracked him down, so he buried the gold when he found he could not escape.
- Hard Case Williams: Look, can we start shooting each other now? No offense, Father. It's a very interesting story, but I'd like to take the gold and get OUT of here!
- Father Garcia: For 33 long years I've been waiting for the pieces to come together. Have you any idea what it's been like, waiting in this cesspit for 33 long years?
- Father Garcia: [laughs] Some people would've given up. Some people have gone crazy. But not me. Oh, no.. no, no, no! Because I knew.. I knew that one day... Cactus's little girls would come riding into Chili Verde, and I would be rich! Rich enough to cast the dust of this forsaken land forever from my sandals! Oh, I'm going to travel: London, Paris, Vienna... And then.. then Rome! The Vatican! I'm going to be a Pope!
- Hard Case Williams: This man's oats ain't all in his feed bag.
- Father Garcia: [he advances at them with his rifle, intending to shoot] Oh ye of little faith...
- Hard Case Williams: [the Padre is shot dead] If there's one thing I hate, it's a pushy priest.
- Maguerita Ventura: Ninfa, get that shower ready for Mr. Wood, huh? 'Cause that man is hot and sticky.
- Rosie Velez: Madre de Dios! What are you doing? Who are you? Where did you come from? I said who are you? Put that down! What do you want? It's me, isn't it? You're going to take advantage of me. You're going to have your filthy way with me under the hot desert sun, aren't you? You're going to ravage me like I've never been ravaged before. Your hot sweat sliding over my body as we roll in the dust. Oh, as you violate my innermost parts. As you pound against me in orgasmic animal passion! Oh, God, you're disgusting.
- Red Dick: You are gorgeous.
- Rosie Velez: Save the speeches, honey. I ain't Juliet and you certainly ain't Romeo. Oo, what a body. At least you're awake.
- Red Dick: Oh, Rosie, you got *everything* a man could want.
- Rosie Velez: Well, let's see if you have what *I* want.
- Maguerita Ventura: [singing] My lust is my livin', I can't stop, Once I start givin', Givin' it to you blow by blow...
- Maguerita Ventura: Did he get a freebie off of you last night?
- Ninfa, Whore at Marguerita's: Who?
- Maguerita Ventura: Dead Dick, that's who.
- Ninfa, Whore at Marguerita's: No! I swear. We bury Bernardo and go to bed - eh, to sleep - apart!
- Hardcase Williams: We need her to find the gold.
- Maguerita Ventura: What do you know about the gold?
- Rosie Velez: Search me?
- Hardcase Williams: That's what we aim to do.
- Maguerita Ventura: Who the Hell are you?
- Hard Case Williams: I think I can say with some measure of certainty that we are the meanest sons of bitches you ever laid them pretty eyes on.
- Rosie Velez: What do you want with me?
- Hardcase Williams: "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. I will repay," St. Paul's epistle to the Romans, Chapter 12, Verse 19. Of course, St. Paul never had a disciple that got his neck broke by a slut from a Santa Fe whorehouse.
- Maguerita Ventura: Oh, I like this hombre.
- Maguerita Ventura: Abel, you and me were two of a kind. We made love. It was fireworks explodin'. A big long Roman candle shootin' off inside me.
- Hard Case Williams: Lady, this is no time to be pointing an accusing finger.
- Big Ed: [looking at his crotch] At least it's only my finger that's pointing!
- Rosie Velez: Oh, please. Let me live. I've never been to Paris.
- Hard Case Williams: C'est la vie, Rosie.
- Hardcase Williams: So, why don't you come out in the open and we'll discuss a business partnership? What do you say?
- Rosie Velez: It's my ass!
- Hardcase Williams: There's enough there for both of us.
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