Last week, my wife and I saw The Mule, the latest movie starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. It kind of plodded along, but we cannot expect too much action from Clint these days. At some point in the movie, I noticed an actor that I recognized. However, I could not figure out why. That is when I went to the trusty Internet Movie Database to do some research.
The actor was Clifton Collins, Jr., and I knew him from Westworld, the HBO series based on the 1970s movie. When I started reading about him, I ran into an interesting fact. Clifton Collins, Jr. is the grandson of Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, the character actor who played in several John Wayne movies. He is great as Carlos in Rio Bravo.
Gonzalez Gonzalez was “discovered” by Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life. I put quotations around discovered because he had been a performer with his family since childhood.
To honor Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, here is some wisdom that can be found from his movies.
From Rio Bravo
Man gets shot that’s got a gun, there’s room for reasonable doubt. Man gets shot that hasn’t got a gun, what would you call it?
From Hellfighters
There’s no mystery. There just seems to be.
From The Love Bug
Everything explains itself one way or the other.
Money serves to ease the pain.
From The Love God?
When will the government stop interfering with private business?
If you love your country, you’ll publish a filthy magazine.
The public wants sex, sex and more sex!
From Chisum
No matter where people go, sooner or later there’s the law. And sooner or later they find God’s already been there.
From Support Your Local Gunfighter
Everybody winds up dead sooner or later.
A man’s gotta’ be numb on both ends to earn his livin’ sittin’ on a horse.
You can’t gunfight a man sitting on your ass!
There are some things a man just can’t ride around.
We share the same ancestors as far back as Adam and Eve.
A man should spread happiness as he walks through life.
Love don’t work unless both people give.
SBI: A Thinning Crowd 