Bus Stop (1956)

Don Murray: Beauregard 'Bo' Decker

Photos 

Quotes 

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Well, I've been thinkin' about them other fellas, Cherry. And well, what I mean is, I like you the way you are, so what do I care how you got that way?

  Cherie : Bo!

  [crying] 

  Cherie : That's the sweetest, tenderest thing anyone ever said to me.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : I still wish you was goin' back to the ranch with me more than anything I know.

  Cherie : You do?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Yeah, I do.

  Cherie : I'd go anywhere in the world with you now. Anywhere at all!

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Here, somebody hold this thing for me

  [about a steer he'd just wrestled this to the ground] 

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : .

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : My name is Beauregard Decker, ma'am. I am 21 years old and I own my own ranch up in Timber Hill, Montana, where I got a fine herd of Hereford cattle, a dozen horses and the finest sheep and hogs and chickens in the country. Now I come down for the rodeo tomorrow with the idea in mind to find me a angel and you're it. Now I don't have a whole lot of time for sweet talkin' around the bush so I would be much obliged if you would just step outside with me into the fresh air.

  Cherie : What'd you say?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : My name if Beauregard Decker, ma'am. I am 21 years old and I own my own ranch up in Timber Hill, Montana, where I got a fine...

  Cherie : I know. I heard all that part...

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : O.K. Let's get out of here!

  Cherie : I'm mighty grateful for what you did but we're not allowed to go out with the customers. But you can buy me a drink if you want to. I'm so dry I'm spittin' cotton.

• [first lines] 

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Are you ready, Virge?

  Virgil Blessing : Anytime.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Turn him out!

  [calf is released from chute] 

• Virgil Blessing : Bo you're 21 years old and we're on our way to a big city, Phoenix, Arizona. It's time you met up with a gal.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : A gal?

  Virgil Blessing : Oh, ain't nothin' to be scared of. You know, why, women and swimmin' is pretty much the same. You got good reflexes, boy. You'll make out just fine.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : If I do find me a gal, it ain't gonna be one of them gals from all those magazines. I already decided. I'm gonna get me a - angel.

  Virgil Blessing : A angel?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : That's right.

  Virgil Blessing : I wouldn't set my sights too high if I were you, Bo. You just figure on pickin' out some plain-lookin' little ol' gal, with a cooperatin' nature and a good personality. I mean, we gotta be realistic.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : I don't know anything about gals, Virge. Nothin' at all.

  Virgil Blessing : Well, that's what I mean. It's about time you learned. It ain't nothin' to be scared of, Bo. You know how much you like swimmin' when you got used to it. Besides, I know the idea crossed your mind once or twice. I seen you lookin' at them pictures in Orville's magazines.

• Virgil Blessing : What's some angel gonna want with a cowhand like you?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : What's that got to do with it? That steer this mornin', he didn't wanna get throwed, did he? Well, I throwed him. Some wild horse you're breakin', he don't wanna get broke, do he? But you don't let what he wants stop you. What makes you think a girl's any different?

  Virgil Blessing : This trip is gonna be mighty educational.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : I'm gonna find me an angel. I'm gonna find me a real hootenanny of an angel!

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Never seen so many gals. Must be a hundred head of 'em!

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Hand kissin'? That ain't my idea on how to get a gal.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Cherry.

  Chérie : Chérie! It's French. It means "dear one."

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Well, my name's kinda French, Beauregard. It means somethin' too.

  Chérie : What's it mean?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : I ain't gonna tell you that.

  Chérie : No, I wouldn't.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Yes, you would.

  Chérie : Honest, I wouldn't.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Well, it means - "good lookin'." I never told that to a single person in my whole life. My Ma was French. She gave it to me.

  Chérie : That's a real pretty name. Beauregard. You are, too. Real beauregard!

• Chérie : It was real nice the way you made everybody shut up in there, like you had respect for me. You made them have respect too. I liked that.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : You did?

  Chérie : Yes.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : How about me? Did you like me too?

  Chérie : Well, when I first saw you, I thought you was some kind of a hooligan, yellin' and stompin' like that. But when I realized you was doin' it for me, I was attracted to you.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Attracted? You was?

  Chérie : I still am.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : You still are! Really attracted?

  Chérie : Uh-huh. 'Course, it's only what you might call a physical attraction.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Physical?

  Chérie : I mean, you're so - big and strong and, well, so darn healthy-lookin'.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : What you all starin' at? The lady's finished. You can start your yammerin' again. Well, go ahead! Start yammerin'!

• Chérie : Now wait a minute. Somebody's got the wrong idea around here.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : What do you mean, Cherry?

  Chérie : My name ain't Cherry. I told you, it's Chérie.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : I can't say it fancy like that. Anyway, what's the matter with Cherry?

  Chérie : Well, it ain't - dignified.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Cherry, I just know we're gonna be very happy together. 'Till death do us part! Hey, I better get goin'. I gotta get into bed. Virge, come on. Let's get goin'. Cherry, we're gonna make all the rest of the plans in the mornin'. But meanwhile, for a weddin' present, I'm gonna get you a deep freeze, or an electric washer, or any other major appliance you want.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : I'm just gonna pretend that little ol' calf is Cherry. I'm goin' after her and I'm gonna get her! When I get her, I'm gonna rope her.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : What's the difference between a, a physical attraction and, well, just a regular attraction?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Well, a gal can be attracted to a fella for lots of reasons. His mind, for instance.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : His mind?

  Virgil Blessing : Sure. Like if he's smart or reads poetry or somethin'.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : No kiddin'?

  Virgil Blessing : That's right.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : I can read and write. I don't know no poetry. But I can recite the Gettysburg Address. Would that count?

  Virgil Blessing : It might, Bo. I doubt it, but it might.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : You see, Cherry, the whole problem is that you just haven't had time yet to get attracted to my mind.

  Chérie : Your mind? I know all about your mind I ever wanna know.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Well, do you know I can say the Gettysburg Address?

  Chérie : Come bustin' in here like a wild Indian. Sometime...

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Cherry?

  Chérie : Well, what?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : "Four score and seven years ago, our Fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived..."

  Chérie : Bo?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : "In liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now, we're engaged in a great Civil War..."

• Virgil Blessing : This whole thing is probably my fault. I told you it was about time you started learnin' somethin' about women. Now, I ain't sayin' this particular gal you picked out ain't a good one to practice on. But a fella can't go around marryin' the first gal he meets.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Why not?

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Golly, when you kiss somebody for serious, it's kinda scary, ain't it?

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : I lived all my life on a ranch and I guess I just didn't know anything about women. 'Cause they're different from men.

  Chérie : Well, naturally.

• Virgil Blessing : There are some gals who don't like to be pushed and grabbed and lassoed and drug into buses in the middle of the night.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : How else was I gonna get her on the bus?

• Carl : One thing I can't stand is a bully.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : [holding Chérie upside down over his shoulder]  Who says I'm a bully?

  Chérie : I do!

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : [spanks Chérie's fanny]  Quiet!

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Ain't no man ever got the best of me, and there ain't gonna be.

  Carl : I'm willin' to try, cowboy! Just step outside.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Delighted!

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : You've been against this right from the beginning!

  Virgil Blessing : That's right. First 'cause I figured the lady wasn't good enough for you. But now 'cause I figure you ain't good enough for her!

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Well, Cherry! You're liable to freeze to death in that skimpy little thing!