Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Annie Griffith Story (1959)

Robert Horton: Flint McCullough

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Quotes 

• Major Seth Adams : Well, I'll be...

  Flint McCullough : Major.

  Major Seth Adams : Howdy.

  Flint McCullough : Sorry I held you up, Major. But I ran into a little trouble.

  Major Seth Adams : Wasn't you that held us up, was getting ready to go on without you anyhow.

  Flint McCullough : I see.

• Flint McCullough : So maybe you'd be obliged and happy if she could ride in your wagon.

  Major Seth Adams : My wagon?

  Flint McCullough : Yes, Major. Thank you very much, Major. Come this way, Annie. I'll show you the Major's wagon.

• 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 : 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.

• Flint McCullough : You lose your husband?

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

• Flint McCullough : [Flint stops among the pine trees to dismount from Little Buck to put his fleece-lined jacket on. He starts to collect wood for a fire when a rifle shot lands at his boots and has him on the ground seeking cover. Another close shot is fired at him. He spots falling stones as the sniper moves, Flint fires two shots in retaliation]  Who're you after?

  Blade Griffith : I want your horse.

  Flint McCullough : So do I.

  Blade Griffith : I want him more.

  Flint McCullough : You'll have to come and get him.

• 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.

• 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?