Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Charlene Brenton Story (1960)

Terry Wilson: Bill Hawks

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Quotes 

• Charlie Wooster : Oh, just one, Bill.

  Bill Hawks : No, I don't think so.

  Charlie Wooster : Oh, come on, please. You know, ever since the Major hid his private stock on me, I've had enough dust in my throat to plant a pack of spuds. Irish spuds.

• Charlie Wooster : Well, you did it again, didn't you?

  Bill Hawks : What did I do?

  Charlie Wooster : Getting so it's not safe to take you into town any more.

  Bill Hawks : [Bill is nursing a bruised eye and a cut lip from the rollicking fight in the saloon that Charlie instigated]  It ain't safe? GIVE ME THOSE LINES. YAH! YAH! YAH!

• Major Seth Adams : I just got a hunch. I wonder if he's been nipping again.

  Bill Hawks : Why do you say that?

  Major Seth Adams : I noticed in my foot locker, there's a whiskey bottle missing.

• Bill Hawks : Charlie, this is a supply wagon, not a Roman chariot. You know if you tried to race that fellow, you'd probably jerk the whole tongue out of this outfit.

  Charlie Wooster : Listen, I take care of these wagons and they're ready to roll at all times. YAH. YAH!

  Bill Hawks : Wait a minute, Ben Hur. This is not the Colosseum, it's a road into town. Now let's go the way we're supposed to.

  Charlie Wooster : Who's this Ben Hur?

  Bill Hawks : He used to drive chariots back in the Roman days.

  Charlie Wooster : You and yer book learning.

• Charlie Wooster : Say, I think you kinda like Uncle Charlie a little bit, don't you? And I begin to see why folks get married and have little babies like you. But I guess it's a little late for an old goat like me. I was always so busy trying to keep from being hogtied by some woman that I didn't know what I was missing.

  Bill Hawks : Now I know I'm dreaming this whole thing.

• Charlie Wooster : I can't take a chance on him making me take her back to Apache Flats. He might not believe that story about them trying to kill her. He might also say that I had too much to drink.

  Bill Hawks : Well, didn't ya?

  Charlie Wooster : It don't make any difference whether I did or I didn't. I know what I know. And he'd be riding me off all the way to California for bringing a plaguered baby on the train. Now you know that. Can't you just hear him?

  Bill Hawks : Yeah, I have to admit that I can.

• Major Seth Adams : COME HERE!

  [He grabs Bill's arm and blusters in a low tone] 

  Major Seth Adams : Where is that old goat?

  Bill Hawks : I don't know where he is. I'll go find him.

  Major Seth Adams : You better find him and goldarn quick. I'm gonna have to stay here with these buzzards, see that nobody takes a shot at them.

  Bill Hawks : Yessir.

  Major Seth Adams : Get moving... Well, stealing babies.

• Bill Hawks : When he finds out what a fool we've made of him, man, we'd be better off having that Brenton hang us, believe me.