Huckleberry Finn and His Friends (TV Series)

I Want to Be Free (1980)

Ian Tracey: Huckleberry Finn

Quotes 

• Huckleberry Finn : Tom, what's 'manners'?

  Tom Sawyer : Manners is something that, eh, parents thought up to keep us from havin' fun.

• Tom Sawyer : Well, highwaymen are the best type of robbers, so I guess we'll be highwaymen. We'll stop stages, kill the people and take the money.

  Ben Rogers : Do we have to kill the people?

  Tom Sawyer : Didn't I tell you? That's the way it's in the book. 'Course we do! 'Cept the ones we want for ransom.

  Huckleberry Finn : Ransom? What's that?

  Tom Sawyer : Well, I don't know, exactly, but that's what all the books says, so we gotta do it. We'll take some, and hold 'em for ransom. I reckon it means, tie 'em up and wait till their dead.

  Sam Davis : Sounds like a lot of bother to me, means they'd have to be guarded and fed and stuff. Why can't we take a club and ransom them straight off?

  Tom Sawyer : Because it's not in the books, that's why!

• Huckleberry Finn : Tom, what about the women, do we kill them too?

  Tom Sawyer : 'Course not! We take them captive. The women are always beautiful and they fall in love with us and never wanna leave.

  Huckleberry Finn : Ugh, I don't like that part, Tom.

  Tom Sawyer : Oh, it's not that bad, we keep 'em around to cook and clean for us.

  Huckleberry Finn : Oh, I reckon we can make some use of them, then.

• Widow Douglas : You don't wanna go to Hell, do you?

  Huckleberry Finn : [shrugs]  I reckon I wouldn't mind.

  Miss Watson : Why... that's wicked! Wicked!

  Huckleberry Finn : Well, all I meant was, a change wouldn't be so bad.

  Widow Douglas : Oh my dear boy, nobody wants to go to Hell, it's a punishment for being bad on Earth. We must all live as best we can, so we can go to heaven.

  Huckleberry Finn : Is Tom Sawyer gonna go to heaven?

  Miss Watson : Him? Definitely not.

  Huckleberry Finn : Well, that's all right then, I know where I'm headed.