Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Countess Baranof Story (1960)

Simon Oakland: Col. Vasily

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Quotes 

• Flint McCullough : Turn him loose and let's get out of here.

  Col. Vasily : I don't take orders from you. Only from the Countess Baranof.

  Flint McCullough : Countess Baranof?

  Col. Vasily : Yes, from the court of Alexander the Second.

  Flint McCullough : We'll discuss that later. Right now, let's get out of here.

  Col. Vasily : They killed my horses and my men. I don't turn him loose.

  Flint McCullough : [Flint cuts free the Indian who has been whipped by Colonel Vasily, and as he turns, he draws his gun to fire a shot at the sword the Russian has drawn on him]  Now let's get out of here.

• 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?

• Flint McCullough : And you'd better give me that pig sticker. Somehow or other I don't trust you.

  Col. Vasily : With this, I protect my Countess until I am dead. Only then do I surrender.

  Flint McCullough : I'll take it any way you insist, but I'm taking it.

• 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 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.

• Major Seth Adams : Mister, for your information I happen to be a commissioned officer of the Army of the United States of America on inactive duty.

  Col. Vasily : Oh, in that case I will negotiate with you. Regardless of your appearance.

• Col. Vasily : I am Colonel Vasily Gregorus of the Tsar Alexander's Cossacks. On behalf of the Countess Baranof I wish to purchase a night's lodging, one well-appointed conveyance, a team of your fastest horses, and one of your best drivers.

• 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.

• Col. Vasily : Why don't you say please too?

  Flint McCullough : I don't think it would do me any good.

• Flint McCullough : Yeah, but in the years I've been carrying a gun I found out that something else that's important too.

  Col. Vasily : Yes, what?

  Flint McCullough : That a man can shoot a man with his blink in his eye.