Western Union (1941)
Dean Jagger: Edward Creighton
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Quotes
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Edward Creighton : The last leg of your trip must have been rather lonesome.
Richard Blake : Well I didn't mind that as much as I did the dust. I could do with a bath.
Homer Kettle : A *bath*...?
Richard Blake : Yes, don't you approve of them?
Homer Kettle : Well if the weather's hot and you're near a river, I ain't got a thing agin 'em.
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[last lines]
[listening to the clack of the telegraph]
Richard Blake : Makes a nice sound, doesn't it, coming across a continent.
Edward Creighton : It's music.
Sue Creighton : I wish Shaw could hear it.
Edward Creighton : It's a long way from Salt Lake City to Boot Hill in Elkville, but I think he can hear it.
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Edward Creighton : Well then, I guess I better see the law about this.
Jack Slade : You'll have to go back to Omaha if you do. It don't run beyond there.
Edward Creighton : I'll make some of my own!
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Vance Shaw : I like being alone.
Edward Creighton : The best place to be alone sometimes is in a crowd.
Vance Shaw : That's the way I figured it... until I ran into you.
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Vance Shaw : He says you come in peace today, but there won't be any peace if you try to take the singing wire through the Oglala nation.
Edward Creighton : Well, tell him that the Great White Father who speaks with lightning over the singing wire is sorry for the wounding of his Indian son; but the lightning talk is strong medicine and it must go through.
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Jack Slade : Mr. Creighton, you're a good man to do business with.
Edward Creighton : But only once.
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Edward Creighton : The last leg of your trip must have been rather lonesome.
Richard Blake : Well I didn't mind that as much as I did the dust. I could do with a bath.
Homer Kettle : A *bath*...?
Richard Blake : Yes, don't you approve of them?
Homer Kettle : Well if the weather's hot and you're near a river, I ain't got a thing agin 'em.
[spits tobacco at Blake's feet]
