Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
[addressing his troops] We will serve under Major Dundee's command. And until that time, any disrespect you show the Major will be taken as a personal insult by *me*.
Jimmy Lee Benteen: Don't you worry none, Uncle Ben, when the time comes, we'll turpentine that cauky, chicken-pickin' Yankee...
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: [completely deadpan] I am *not* your uncle, you redneck peckerwood. And if you say one more word, you'll spend the rest of this campaign in *chains*.
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Jimmy Lee Benteen: Don't you worry none, Uncle Ben, when the time comes, we'll turpentine that cauky, chicken-pickin' Yankee...
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: [completely deadpan] I am *not* your uncle, you redneck peckerwood. And if you say one more word, you'll spend the rest of this campaign in *chains*.
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
[as Graham's artillery fires during the rescue of Dundee] Aha! Lieutenant Graham will be a General before he's thirty!
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
[the command comes across a troop of French cavalry] Congratulations, Major. It seems like you've found yourself a real war after all.
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
[to Dundee] Now, I have orders to take you out of here in a way that befits your character - out the back door!
[punches Dundee]
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
[punches Dundee]
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
[to Dundee] You are a $70, red-wool, pure-quill military genius, or the biggest damn fool in northern Mexico.
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
[trying to restrain his men] I said will shall serve under this command and we will serve! But only until the Apache is destroyed. And then, Amos - and then, I'm going to kill you!
Maj. Amos Dundee: Are you, Ben?
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Yes. Yes, Amos.
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Maj. Amos Dundee: Are you, Ben?
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Yes. Yes, Amos.
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
How many men do you need?
Maj. Amos Dundee: Twenty. Good ones.
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Until the Apache is taken or destroyed - only that?
Maj. Amos Dundee: Agreed.
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: If it's... too rich for you... hang us now, and be done with it.
Maj. Amos Dundee: I might just hang you and that Injun from the same tree, Ben.
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: You'll play hell getting it done, Amos!
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Maj. Amos Dundee: Twenty. Good ones.
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Until the Apache is taken or destroyed - only that?
Maj. Amos Dundee: Agreed.
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: If it's... too rich for you... hang us now, and be done with it.
Maj. Amos Dundee: I might just hang you and that Injun from the same tree, Ben.
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: You'll play hell getting it done, Amos!
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
I'll need five men, mounted. We'll attack their flank after you break their charge.
Maj. Amos Dundee: Bully!
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Bully...
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Maj. Amos Dundee: Bully!
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Bully...
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
I've already been three men, Amos. That's enough for one lifetime.
Maj. Amos Dundee: Irish immigrant...
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Cashiered Army officer.
Maj. Amos Dundee: ...and Confederate renegade. And I don't like any of them.
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Well, now isn't that a coincidence?
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Maj. Amos Dundee: Irish immigrant...
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Cashiered Army officer.
Maj. Amos Dundee: ...and Confederate renegade. And I don't like any of them.
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Well, now isn't that a coincidence?
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
Capt. Benjamin Tyreen:
You don't have the temprament to be a liberator, Amos.
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
--Richard Harris (as Capt. Benjamin Tyreen) in Major Dundee
