Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Annie Griffith Story (1959)

Jan Sterling: Annie Griffith

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Quotes 

• Annie Griffith : I found you shot and raving with fever. An awful mess, awful. Though I ain't never seen a man who wasn't. Here now, lay back there, got some work to do on you. Makes me feel real bad to see a man helpless like this, real bad.

• Bill Hawks : Are you sure, ma'am, that you haven't seen Flint?

  Annie Griffith : I ain't seen him. I ain't seen him at all. Now git.

  Bill Hawks : We got a long hard ride ahead of us, ma'am. We'd sure appreciate it if we could come in and warm ourselves by your fire.

  Annie Griffith : I ain't got no fire

  [Annie, Charlie and Bill look up to the smoke billowing from the brick chimney, Annie punctuates the air with a rifle shot] 

  Annie Griffith : I ain't got no fire at all. Now git.

  Charlie Wooster : She ain't got no fire.

• Annie Griffith : I never thought I'd live to see the day I'd accept hospitality from a Yankee officer.

• Annie Griffith : It's his medicine that saved you.

  Flint McCullough : Why did you go to him?

  Annie Griffith : To get you safe passage to the wagon train.

  Flint McCullough : Why Annie? Were you worried about me?

  Annie Griffith : Nothing of the sort. I couldn't let the Shoshone get you after all my nursing. Now could I?

  Flint McCullough : You know you're pretty. All you have to do is set your mind to it.

  Annie Griffith : Teake said the Spirit Devils would be talking in you for a little while. I declare you're just out of your head.

  Flint McCullough : You might as well get used to it. You're pretty. If you ever get out of here, some proper gentleman will tell you.

  Annie Griffith : You better not go back to sleep, supper is nearly ready.

  Flint McCullough : You're pretty

  [He drifts off to sleep] 

  Annie Griffith : [She leans over him, her face with that soft expression a woman has when she might kiss a man]  I declare if another living thing had died on me, I would have just given in.

• Charlie Wooster : Flint McCullough. Damn blast your hide. The Major's been worried sick about you.

  Flint McCullough : He didn't have to. I had very good medicine. Oh Charlie, this is Mrs Griffith.

  Charlie Wooster : Howdy Ma'am

  [He does a double take] 

  Charlie Wooster : McCullough, does the Major know you're dragging her along?

  Annie Griffith : Quit yelling in my ear. Mm.

  Flint McCullough : Thanks a lot, Annie.

  Annie Griffith : Better put that hat back on, might catch cold

  [Flint tips his hat and salutes to her, unable express in words his full appreciation for her nursing] 

• Annie Griffith : Where's your wagon train heading?

  Bill Hawks : Why, West, to California.

  Annie Griffith : West, always heading West

  [her disappointment and dismay are obvious] 

• Annie Griffith : You killed the only living thing that was still mine. Now I'm nursing you back to health. That's sorta funny, mm?

  Flint McCullough : I'm sorry.

  Annie Griffith : You always gonna be sorry about everything?

• Annie Griffith : I brought ya here. Don't think I wasn't able. Women got strength that men don't even know about. It's a- Something she learns, something that grows inside her. That ain't no pain. Well, I got no whiskey. I could clout you one on the head. That's the best I can do.

  Flint McCullough : [He gasps with pain]  You could have left me there.

  Annie Griffith : Ain't much good to me dead. You might be worth something to me alive, even half alive. You might be worth something to the Shoshone.

  Flint McCullough : Shoshone?

  Annie Griffith : Oh, steady now

  [Flint issues a sharp gasp and passes out as Annie studies the bullet she has extracted from his shoulder with her hunting knife] 

• Annie Griffith : What do you know about the South?

  Flint McCullough : The way it sounds.

  Annie Griffith : The way it sounds? You're too plain, Annie. No proper gentleman wants a plain woman for a wife. Out West now, marrying's easy. Too easy. And the marriage is hard.

• Annie Griffith : Go on, keep looking. You get used to it after a while.

• Flint McCullough : You lose your husband?

  Annie Griffith : I'm not looking for him. When you lose something, you try to find it.

• Annie Griffith : I've had a lot to bear lately and I don't want you dying on me.

  Flint McCullough : I'll do what I can.

  Annie Griffith : Get a dollop or two of this down yer, it might break up the fever.

  Flint McCullough : I don't think I can eat.

  Annie Griffith : Spoon yourself some.

• Annie Griffith : He's a big man. He's got red hair, sight redder than yours. He's got eyes that gentle you with a look, or they can cut through you. He's not so easy to look at since I cut him, right down the face

  [she indicates with her hand where Blade's scar would be and Flint with the slightest flinch knows who he killed with his knife] 

• Annie Griffith : That's his way, he likes to be warm in the Winter.

• Flint McCullough : I'm sorry.

  Annie Griffith : Sorry? I did the burying alone, every time, alone... Well, when the trails opened last Spring, he was off.

• Flint McCullough : Did you love him?

  Annie Griffith : That first year, part of it when we were new to each other. That was all a long time ago, and there's a lot to remember since then.

• Flint McCullough : Dog soldiers, best fighters in the tribe.

  Annie Griffith : They're friends of mine. They brought me these

  [She tosses Flint's saddlebags at him. He conceals the pain as the full impact just misses his injured hip] 

  Flint McCullough : How come you got friendly with the Shoshone?

• Annie Griffith : Any time they come up with some gold or something money that I can spend, I'll tell them where you are right quick. Why'd you kill Blade?

• Annie Griffith : What are ya? As dumb as yer look? Or can't you hear good?

  Bill Hawks : We're looking for a man.

  Annie Griffith : Yeah, well, I ain't. I sure ain't.