Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Chottsie Gubenheimer Story (1965)

John McIntire: Christopher Hale

Quotes 

• Chottsie Gubenheimer : As a matter of fact, of all my husbands, I think I cared most for him.

  Christopher Hale : All your husbands? You mean...

• Chottsie Gubenheimer : Women are always suspicious when I offer to help. Do you think I've done something wrong?

  Christopher Hale : I'm just trying to tell you what these women feel, Chottsie.

  Chottsie Gubenheimer : But I want you to know how I feel. Do you really think I really did any harm? I offered to help. Sometimes I'm not entirely capable and the men end up helping me. But that makes men feel good. They feel important. They feel sure of themselves. And then they are happy. And when feel that way, they are easier to get along with. So why should the ladies object? In the end I am helping them too.

• Christopher Hale : Let that be a lesson to you.

  Barnaby West : How do you mean, Mr Chris?

  Christopher Hale : Never flatter yourself by taking credit for changing a woman into something she'd been even if you'd never met her.

  [Chris has discovered the SECRET] 

  Barnaby West : WHAT?

  [he's got a long way to go] 

• Charlie Wooster : A fella has to have a little fun and excitement, y'know. Anyway it's a long way to the next town, you know that.

  Bill Hawks : Charlie, you ought to be ashamed of yourself looking for fun and excitement at your age.

  Charlie Wooster : What do you mean: at my age? I'm ten years younger than I look and I feel twenty years than I am.

  Christopher Hale : Then you're too young to go into a saloon.

  Charlie Wooster : Oh, Mr Chris.

  Bill Hawks : It's been a long hard dry ride to here.

  Charlie Wooster : Yup

  [nodding] 

  Christopher Hale : [Looks up at the sign: Happy hours, SALOON, Finest in Reproach]  All right, we'll go in for a few minutes.

• Christopher Hale : Why isn't Charlie getting breakfast?

  Bill Hawks : I saw him heading to the creek about half an hour ago.

  Christopher Hale : The creek?

• Christopher Hale : A few supplies in here but I think you'll have plenty of room.

  Chottsie Gubenheimer : How convenient if I'm hungry.

  Christopher Hale : No chandeliers or embroidered wall paper.

  Chottsie Gubenheimer : I didn't realise how simple it would be.

  Christopher Hale : Ease and comfort come high when you have to buy them with self-respect.

• Christopher Hale : When you're through with your fishing and prospecting, maybe we can have some breakfast.

  Charlie Wooster : Yessir.

• Christopher Hale : Little Miss Chottsie Gubenheimer. Being pawed by a slick haired bullying tinhorn gambler.

• Christopher Hale : I'm a wagonmaster and I'm always passing through.

• Bill Hawks : [In the saloon at Chris Hale's instigation]  How can you be to blame, Chris?

  Christopher Hale : Never send to know for whom the bell tolls.

  [Quote from John Donne:] 

  Christopher Hale : It tolls for thee.

  Bill Hawks : What?

  Charlie Wooster : Bells?

  [He moves the whiskey bottle furtherest from Chris] 

  Christopher Hale : I should have been man enough to say, Mr Gubenheimer, you are not going to send her away. We are not too serious. And we are not too young.

  Bill Hawks : There's nothing you can do now.

  Charlie Wooster : She seems happy enough.

  Christopher Hale : I don't believe it. A woman from her background would never be in a place like this.

• Christopher Hale : BILL? Where've you been?

  Bill Hawks : Well, I was buying this eiderdown.

  Christopher Hale : For Chottsie? When a couple of hundred people are waiting for you to get this train rolling?

  Christopher Hale : Look, Chris, there was almost $200 sewed into the lining. So she gets her quilt and I come out about $185 to the good.

  Christopher Hale : Well, you'll need it if you don't get on the job right now.

  Bill Hawks : Yessir!