Wagon Train (TV Series)
The Jess MacAbee Story (1959)
Robert Horton: Flint McCullough
Quotes
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Jess MacAbee : Where could he get a better selection?
Flint McCullough : But your girls, they don't want to marry me.
Jess MacAbee : Well, they're females, they're not supposed to know what they want.
Belle MacAbee : They think you're the most wonderful man they've ever seen.
Flint McCullough : YES, BUT I'M THE ONLY MAN THEY'VE EVER SEEN.
Jess MacAbee : Well, don't knock that, lad. You can't suffer by comparison.
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Flint McCullough : Cora Belle.
[He positions the seven year old on his knee]
Flint McCullough : Cora Belle, you have youth to offer, devotion, loyalty, an inquiring mind. And somewhere in the world there's a little boy growing up and his mother's telling him that he has to search until he finds you.
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Flint McCullough : Major Adams had sent me ahead of the train to scout for fresh meat but the prospects didn't seem too good. I'd ridden the region so many times, I knew it to be dry and barren. But suddenly I found myself at the top of a hill I didn't know at all looking down into a small green valley, a hidden paradise in the wilderness. I stared down the mountain towards it, on my way into one of the strangest little worlds I have ever entered.
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Jess MacAbee : [Flint opens the gate regardless of the warning signs, DANGER WILD ANIMALS, TRESPASSERS SHOT ON SIGHT, PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSERS, DANGER HIGH EXPLOSIVES. A loud cowbell rings out] INJUNS. Take cover. INJUNS!
[He herds the girls into the house]
Jess MacAbee : That's far enough, Mister. Now can't you read? Or don't you believe in signs?
Flint McCullough : My name's Flint McCullough. My horse seems to have gone a little bit lame on me. Besides I wanted to buy some cattle. I thought you might have some for sale.
Jess MacAbee : NOW, I HAVEN'T GOT ANY CATTLE, NOW GIT!
Flint McCullough : Well, could I rest my horse a while?
Jess MacAbee : NO, YOU CAN'T!
Flint McCullough : I'm sorry I intruded.
[as he leaves, he spots some beeves in a meadow]
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Jess MacAbee : Now, I told you to git.
Flint McCullough : You also told me you didn't have any cattle. And you were yelling Indian. And everybody knows there's not an unfriendly Indian within a hundred miles.
[Flint takes up residence in the hammock]
Jess MacAbee : Mister, you gonna make me shoot you.
Flint McCullough : Yeah, 'fraid so. You thinking of running the price of the cattle up?
Jess MacAbee : Well, I've only got five cows and I need 'em. Now, will you please go.
Flint McCullough : Why are you so anxious for me to leave?
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Belle MacAbee : Mr MacAbee, you are raising your voice.
Jess MacAbee : Now look what you done.
Flint McCullough : Good evening, Ma'am.
[Flint rises from the hammock]
Belle MacAbee : I'm dreaming. I'll wake up in a minute and didn't really hear a man's voice.
Flint McCullough : My name is Flint McCullough.
[And he shakes her hand]
Jess MacAbee : He just coming and he just going.
[Mrs MacAbee feels up Flint's arm to his chest, and faints]
Jess MacAbee : She never done that before.
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Flint McCullough : President Polk? Well, how long you folks been here?
Belle MacAbee : Well, Mr MacAbee brought me here twenty years ago and I haven't been out of this valley since. And the girls haven't been out at all.
Flint McCullough : Well, I'm afraid President Polk is long gone. Since him there's been Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Millard Philmore, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln of course, Andrew Jackson. There's been the Civil War.
Belle MacAbee : Civil War?
Flint McCullough : Eleven states seceded from the Union.
Belle MacAbee : How wicked.
Jess MacAbee : I've always said those Yankees were unstable.
Sally Belle MacAbee : What Yankee states left the Union, Mr McCullough?
Flint McCullough : The Yankee states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : The whole South?
Sally Belle MacAbee : Out of the Union?
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Jess MacAbee : This time you have gone too far. Come on, girls, and we'll throw this Yankee off our land.
Flint McCullough : Now, just a minute. Who are you calling a Yankee?
Mary Belle MacAbee : [Very seriously and with great intensity and concern] He means you, Mr McCullough.
Flint McCullough : Well, he can't mean me, Honey, 'cos I was born in Virginia.
[Mary Belle's face brightens up with a glowing smile]
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Jess MacAbee : That's all I need, saddled with Archibald Beauregarde.
Flint McCullough : Well, I'm not Archibald Beauregarde.
Jess MacAbee : You've got a lot of hair.
Flint McCullough : Well, why are you so touchy about that?
Jess MacAbee : Well, you'll get touchy about that too when you start showing streaks of scalp.
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Belle MacAbee : Mr McCullough, Mr MacAbee apologises.
Flint McCullough : I accept Mr MacAbee's apology.
Jess MacAbee : Well, don't strain yourself.
Flint McCullough : No strain at all, Sir.
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Flint McCullough : You've lived for 17 years and you've learnt to do a great many things that most women never learn.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : What?
Flint McCullough : Well, most women don't plough the fields, most women don't do the butchering, and most women don't harvest the crops.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : They don't?
Flint McCullough : No.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : But Daddy says they do.
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Flint McCullough : Am I a prisoner?
Jess MacAbee : That's entirely up to you. Well, I'm waiting for your answer.
[the cowbell rings]
Jess MacAbee : INDIANS? Indians.
Flint McCullough : You just made me your prisoner.
[Flint snubs the rifle offered to him]
Jess MacAbee : Now I'm gonna make you a trusted. Come on McCullough.
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Flint McCullough : WHY! He's got 6 boys and you've got 5 girls, it's almost a mathematical equation.
Jess MacAbee : You watch your language.
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Jess MacAbee : He's stubborn. That's what he is, just Virginia stubborn. Well, I'm Louisiana stubborn any day of the week.
Flint McCullough : MORE STUBBORN.
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Anna Belle MacAbee : We heard a lot of firing.
Jess MacAbee : Well, I did manage to wing one or two.
Sally Belle MacAbee : Did Mr McCullough get any?
Jess MacAbee : Oh. yeah. He winded one or two, too.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : You are the two bravest men in the whole world.
Jess MacAbee : Ooh, it was nothing. Was it, Flint?
Flint McCullough : Nothing, absolutely nothing at all.
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Flint McCullough : Mary Belle, Mary Belle dear. You've got a green thumb.
Mary Belle MacAbee : I washed it.
Flint McCullough : Oh, honey, you can't wash that away.
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Flint McCullough : Junior, Junior, one of these days you're gonna undo this braid of yours and comb out your hair. And when you do, you'll be as pretty a girl as a man would want to look at.
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Jess MacAbee : M-M-M-McCullough. Come out here. These are real Indians.
Flint McCullough : That's a war party. We're in for trouble.
Jess MacAbee : What'll we do with them?
Flint McCullough : We'll need help. One of us will have to ride for the Culpepper boys.
Jess MacAbee : Well, well, do you think you can find their place? I was pretty high handed.
Flint McCullough : Yeah, I'll find them.
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Jed Culpepper : Don't look like we come to rescue the girls. Looks like we've come to rescue the Indians.
Flint McCullough : You came to rescue me.