Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Annie Griffith Story (1959)

Terry Wilson: Bill Hawks

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Quotes 

• 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.

• Charlie Wooster : Why ain't people smart like me?

  Major Seth Adams : You know, Charlie, I wonder how I keep forgetting how really smart you are.

  Charlie Wooster : I'd like to know that myself.

  Major Seth Adams : Well, in case you break the point of that shovel, I suggest you use something harder and more pointed. Like your head.

  Charlie Wooster : What what did I say?

  Bill Hawks : Too much.

• Charlie Wooster : I bet wherever he is, he's hip deep in snow this minute.

  Major Seth Adams : It's too early to snow in this country, Charlie.

  Charlie Wooster : Why them Sierra Passes are full of snow. You can't tell me...

  Major Seth Adams : I'm telling you it's too early to snow in this country. And you'd better not say anything different, get all these people in the train panicked, I'll stick your head in the first snowdrift we come to.

  Charlie Wooster : Now, what'd I say?

  Bill Hawks : Too much.

• Major Seth Adams : Snow cloud sure is the devil.

  Bill Hawks : Yeah, and there's no mistaking them. What would you give to see old McCullough come riding right out from under them right now.

  Major Seth Adams : That's more than I got, I'll tell you that. It's be advice to these people if he'd show up. If he doesn't come in tomorrow at dawn, I'm gonna send you and Charlie out looking for him

  [Bill's hat is blown off by the wind] 

  Bill Hawks : Figure he's lost?

  Major Seth Adams : No, he's not lost. He's never lost. I figure he's snowbound. He's got to be

  [Bill retrieves his hat from the ground behind them] 

• 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] 

• Charlie Wooster : Sure looks like blood.

  Bill Hawks : Looks like they drug it off that way.

  Charlie Wooster : You ain't thinking McCullough?

  Bill Hawks : I'm thinking it might be. Until we know different.

  Charlie Wooster : I been telling myself all along, if McCullough did come this way and ran into this snow, he'd cut back to the South Pass.

  Bill Hawks : If he was able.

  Charlie Wooster : If he did come this way. It's past midday and, if I know McCullough, he'd be up riding by now.

• Charlie Wooster : Why do you keep saying "IF" we're on McCullough's trail? Ain't you sure?

  Bill Hawks : Aren't you sure?

  Charlie Wooster : No, But I'd feel a lot better if you was. If somebody did come this way and possibly camped here. I'll go look for some water.

• 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.