Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Countess Baranof Story (1960)

Taina Elg: Countess Baranof

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• Col. Vasily : On your feet. A peasant does not sit in the presence of a Countess. I warned you, Countess. The American does not know place.

  Countess Baranof : Don't mind him. he doesn't know the customs of your country yet Sometimes I think he is more class conscious than what we are.

  [Flint laughs heartily] 

  Countess Baranof : Are you laughing at me?

  Flint McCullough : Oh no, no. But, do you realise what the odds are against my running into a real Russian Countess out here?

• Countess Baranof : What is a Russian Countess doing in this wilderness? I'm on my way to Alaska.

• Major Seth Adams : Last time I heard of your man de Stoeckl he was trying to negotiate a deal with our Secretary of State, Mr Seward, get us to buy Alaska. Of all things in the world for us to buy is Alaska. We've only got 19 million empty acres of land out here.

  [Flint, by his facial expressions, is desperately trying to indicate to his boss to change the subject of his tirade on Alaska] 

  Major Seth Adams : What would we want with a big hunk of ice and snow up there?

  Countess Baranof : You don't approve of it, Major?

  Major Seth Adams : Well, I don't imagine anyone, in their right mind, even going there... for... a visit... let alone to live.

  Countess Baranof : That's my destination, Major.

  Major Seth Adams : I beg your pardon?

  [Behind his hand, Flint nods his head with amusement] 

• Countess Baranof : Nobility is not synonymous with weakness, Mr McCullough. Our blood is strong and so is our will.

• Countess Baranof : But the Major isn't the only one with influence here.

  Col. Vasily : The scout?

  Countess Baranof : If Flint McCullough would like to help me badly enough, he would.

  Col. Vasily : Indian scout.

  Countess Baranof : What is it, Vasily?

  Col. Vasily : I dare not say.

  Countess Baranof : We're not in Russia now. You can speak to me openly.

  Col. Vasily : As a man to a woman?

  Countess Baranof : That's what we are, aren't we?

  Col. Vasily : If I could speak to you that way, I would warn you against any further relationship with the scout.

  Countess Baranof : You don't trust him after he saved our lives?

  Col. Vasily : It is not he that I do not trust.

  Countess Baranof : Me?

  Col. Vasily : I have never seen you look at any other man the way you look at the scout.

  Countess Baranof : Vasily, what do you know of the way I look at men?

• Countess Baranof : I think you deliberately misled me so that you could make love to me.

  Flint McCullough : No, that isn't true. But I'm sorry you said that because it means you let me make love to you to use me for your own purposes.

  [And whack, slaps him hard across the face] 

• Countess Baranof : I love no man yet. And when I do, it will have no importance what his station is.

  Col. Vasily : I hope it won't be a lowly Indian Scout.

  Countess Baranof : Hardly an Indian Scout, Vasily. But I shall use Mr McCullough for our purpose.

• Countess Baranof : Oh, you have travelled extensively?

  Alex Foster : Oh, yes. I been to St Louis before I was eighteen years old.

  Countess Baranof : Is that a fact?

  Alex Foster : Lived there for six months once. Been to New York too.

• Flint McCullough : Because I've never been so wrong about a woman in my life.

  Countess Baranof : Are you sure?

  Flint McCullough : I wish I weren't. And I wish I didn't care.

  Countess Baranof : Don't make me laugh.

  Flint McCullough : Why not? You've been a great source of amusement to me. I could have fallen in love with you. How's that for a start. Funny? The first time I kissed you, the thought entered my mind that, with a woman like you, I could be content to stay in one place for the rest of my life. That's the funniest part of all. You really ought to laugh there. I never stopped to think what a ridiculous match it would be.

• Countess Baranof : you have done so much already. And I don't know your name.

  Flint McCullough : Oh, it's, ah, McCullough, Ma'am, Flint McCullough, Indian Scout and First Class Peasant.

• Flint McCullough : [Flint and Olga are in a romantic clinch in the woods, and, inbetween kissing and smooching, they talk about why she has to get to Alaska]  You want me to believe that you can buy the United State Senate?

  Countess Baranof : Mm, that's the rumour in Washington. And I just came from there.

  Flint McCullough : That's a lot of rot.

  Countess Baranof : Will you help me get to San Fransisco?

  Flint McCullough : You know I will.

  Countess Baranof : I knew I could count on you.

• Col. Vasily : Do not forget I am a Cossack, more skilled in the art of killing than any soldier in the world. You forced me into doing this, you know. It would have been so much easier if you had loved me. And far more pleasant. But, I was not good enough for you, was I?

  Countess Baranof : Not if you had been the Tsar himself.

• Alex Foster : In all my travels I think I can safely say I've never met a woman quite like you.

  Countess Baranof : Is that so?

  Alex Foster : Without a doubt, and that includes New Orleans too. Did I tell you I been to New Orleans?

• Countess Baranof : Alex.

  Alex Foster : Yes, Olga.

  Countess Baranof : Would you remove your hand from my hand before I slap your face.

• Alex Foster : Countess, Olga, this man is out of his head. Call him off.

  Countess Baranof : Perhaps you'd better listen to him, do as he says. Sometimes his temper is quicker than my tongue. Even I couldn't order him to replace your head once he has swung that sabre.