Wagon Master (1950)
Ward Bond: Elder Wiggs
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Quotes
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Uncle Shiloh Clegg : You boys ever draw on anybody?
Travis Blue : No, sir. Just snakes.
[later, after Travis shoots Clegg]
Elder Wiggs : I thought you never drew on a man?
Travis Blue : That's right, sir. Only on snakes.
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Elder Wiggs : [to Sandy] Keep your shirt on, son. Your face looks honest to me even if it is homely.
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Travis Blue : [of the indians] Near as I can figure out, he don't seem to like white men.
Sandy : Yeah, he say's we're all thieves.
Elder Wiggs : Smarter then he looks!
[Sandy speaks Navajo, evidently translating what Elder Wiggs had just said]
Elder Wiggs : Don't tell him that, you fool! Tell him we're Mormans!
[the Navajos speak in their native touge, mutterring "Mormany" repeatedly]
Elder Wiggs : What'd he say?
Sandy : Say's the Mormans are his brothers. Say's they ain't big thieves like most white men. Just little thieves.
Elder Wiggs : Right complementery, ain't he?
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Elder Wiggs : You afraid of 'em?
Travis Blue : Yeah. I am.
Elder Wiggs : What about you?
Sandy : Who, me?
Elder Wiggs : That makes three of us. But I'm not gonna let the Cleggses know it. And I'm not gonna let my people know it.
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[repeated line]
Travis Blue , Elder Wiggs : Wagons West!
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Elder Wiggs : [to Travis] Hey, you wouldn't, uh, happen to know that San Juan River country, would you?
Sandy : Yeah, we know it. What about it, Grandpa?
Elder Wiggs : [Taking offense] Now look here, don't you be grandpa-ing me, you young whippersnapper! I'll bull you off that fence and fan your britches for you! Goddarn...
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Elder Wiggs : You boys mind tellin' me if you're drinkin' men?
Travis Blue : Nope. Got a brother who's a drunkard though.
Elder Wiggs : You ever chaw?
Travis Blue : [Dryly] Tried it once.
Elder Wiggs : Use the words of wrath?
Travis Blue : Only tolerable well.
Elder Wiggs : Are you family men?
Travis Blue : No, sir.
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Elder Wiggs : How'd you boys like to sell us aII these here gentle horses of yours, at $50 a head, and maybe pick yourselves up an extra hundred or so on the side?
Travis Blue : Doin' what?
Elder Wiggs : Wagon Master, that's what.
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Sandy : Are you people Mormons?
Elder Wiggs : That's right, son. That's why I keep my hat on all the time. So my horns won't show. Why, I got more wives than Solomon himself! At least, that's what folks around here say. And if they don't say it, they - they think it.
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Elder Wiggs : And so with their water all gone, Mr. Peachtree here poured a coupIe of quarts of this lightning elixir into a bucket and gave it to their mule. Last they seen of her, she was going over the hill like a Kansas twister. And here they've been ever since. Now these people, they have, what I used to call in my sinin' days - a ''hoochie-coochie'' show.
Sister Ledyard : Oh, I do declare.
Elder Wiggs : And the question is, what are we gonna do with them?
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[repeated line]
Elder Wiggs : Blow your horn, Sister Ledyard.
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Travis Blue : Better pull them up, Elder.
Elder Wiggs : Hold your horses!
Travis Blue : Hold your horses, men!
Elder Wiggs : Hold your horses! Hold them horses! Why, you dad-blasted idiots! Hold them horses! Hold! Hold them horses!
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Sandy : Hey, gosh. Do I hear music? It sounds like music.
Travis Blue : If I'm not loco, so do I.
Sandy : Do you suppose it's Navajos?
Elder Wiggs : I've never heard a Navajo playing a gui-tar.
Sandy : Come to think of it, neither have I.
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[last lines]
Elder Wiggs : Well, I'll be doggoned. I'll be doggoned!
