Wagon Train (TV Series)
The Kate Crawley Story (1964)
Denny Miller: Duke Shannon
Quotes
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Charlie Wooster : Why would he want to stay on the wagon train after he's married? Answer me that.
Barnaby West : Married?
Duke Shannon : Chris?
Bill Hawks : When?
Barnaby West : You mean to Miss Kate?
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Barnaby West : How come he kissed her?
Duke Shannon : Well you see... What I mean... There's a difference and wanting to be friendly with a woman sometimes and wanting to marry her and have her around all the time. That's right, Bill?
Bill Hawks : Gee, Duke. I don't know.
Duke Shannon : Yeah.
Barnaby West : It just seems to me seeing and kissing a girl is about the same as courting, and courting is what you do when you want to get married.
Bill Hawks : You know, Duke, Barnaby is right.
Duke Shannon : Well, sometimes, Barnaby. Maybe, we just better forget it.
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Duke Shannon : We can make it through.
Bill Hawks : Well, good, maybe we can get back to camp and can get a good night's sleep before it it gets daylight.
Duke Shannon : Just as soon as we check on that campsite over there.
Bill Hawks : I didn't see any campfire.
Duke Shannon : It's just over the rise.
Bill Hawks : You see it before?
Duke Shannon : No.
Bill Hawks : Well, how do you know it's there then?
Duke Shannon : Just talented, I guess.
Bill Hawks : You know, Duke, you ought to try scouting some time.
Duke Shannon : I'll give it some thought.
[Duke decides to own up]
Duke Shannon : The breeze shifted a while ago, and I smelt the smoke.
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Bill Hawks : Then she comes along like she's going to pat a little schoolboy on the top of the head, smiles and says: Bill, if you're ever in trouble, let me know and I'll get you out of it. And then to make matters worse, old man Troy almost lost his store-bought teeth laughing at the way she showed me up.
Duke Shannon : That's kinda funny.
Bill Hawks : You think that's funny, huh?
Duke Shannon : Yeah.
Charlie Wooster : When she starts telling you how to do your job, you won't think it's funny.
Duke Shannon : How can she get in my way scouting the trail?
Charlie Wooster : You give her one more week on the train, she'll be running the whole shebang. You want a bet?
Duke Shannon : You just name it.
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Duke Shannon : [Kate breaks up the fight with her whip] Kate.
Kate Crawley : Good thing I happened along when I did.
Duke Shannon : What'd you interfere for?
Kate Crawley : Looked like the two of them were going to jump you.
Duke Shannon : Just what made you think that would be a problem?
Kate Crawley : Well, I was only trying to help.
Duke Shannon : I didn't need any help.
Kate Crawley : Well, pardon me, huh. Go ahead fellas, he's all yours.
Jessup Harmon : Don't reckon it'd be any fun now.
Pop Harmon : Heck, no. It's no fun fighting a fella who lets a female help him.
Duke Shannon : I didn't ask her to.
Jessup Harmon : You come back some time without your woman. Maybe we'll oblige you.
Pop Harmon : Come along, son.
Duke Shannon : But, well, but, wait, ah.
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Charlie Wooster : Looks like a fire all right.
Bill Hawks : What'd you think it was? A smoke signal?
Barnaby West : Wasn't Mr Chris riding right into it?
Duke Shannon : Not alone he isn't.
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Duke Shannon : You know, shave, take a bath.
Stump Beasley : A bath? Now, what good would that do?
Duke Shannon : You can't expect to get within three feet of her, can you, when you keep reminding her of an old billy goat.
Stump Beasley : Did Kate say that?
Duke Shannon : The point is you haven't got much of a chance with Kate when you're competing with a man who takes baths, regular.
Stump Beasley : The wagonmaster, he does that?
Duke Shannon : Like clockwork. Sometimes every day.
Stump Beasley : Ohh?
Duke Shannon : Yep. How about it, Stump? I'll loan you my razor, clean clothes. I even got some soap.
Stump Beasley : Soap? No, sir. No, sir. I aint going to do it. I told Kate I was willing to take her right the way she was. She ought to be willing to take me the way I am. No soap.
Duke Shannon : Is that final?
Stump Beasley : That's final. F-I-N-E-L.