Wagon Master (1950)

Harry Carey Jr.: Sandy

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Quotes 

• Sandy : By Golly, I bet it's going to be hotter then...

  Jackson : [Angrily]  Mind your language!

  Sandy : I wasn't cussin'!

  Jackson : You were going to say Hell!

  Sandy : I was going to say Hades, but Hell ain't cussin', it's geography... It's the name of a place, like you might say Abilene or Salt Lake City.

  Jackson : [Taking offense]  Don't you be going making any remarks about Salt Lake City!

  [Sandy turns away, but when he cinches his saddle, he purposesly bumps into Jackson, Jackson does it back, and they do it back and forth. Then they turn around and fight] 

• 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?

• 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.

• [Sandy fills a bucket of water from the river, and takes it to Prudence] 

  Sandy : I brought you some water, ma'am

  [Prudence gratefully takes it] 

  Prudence Perkins : Thank you. Won't you stop and have a bit of breakfast with us?

  Sandy : [Happily]  Yes, ma'am.

  [Sandy instantly leaps from his horse] 

  Travis Blue : [Travis comes riding up]  Sandy, lets go!

  [Sandy regretfully gets back on his horse, and bows repeatily to Prudence before riding away] 

• [singing] 

  Sandy : I left my gal in Old Virginy...

  Travis Blue : Trailin' behind the wagon trail...

  Sandy : Another I left in Old Missoura...

  Travis Blue : Trailin' behind the wagon trail...

  Sandy , Travis Blue : [Together]  Oh the Wite tops are a rollin', rollin', the big wheels keep a-turnin', and when I reach that promise land, for my gal I'll still be yearnin'.

• Travis Blue , Sandy : [singing, towards the end of the movie]  Oh the white tops are a rollin' rollin', and the big wheels keep on turnin', there's a good little gal in that promise land already I'm a yearnin!

• 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...

• Uncle Shiloh Clegg : They ain't gonna whip no Cleggses.

  Travis Blue : Whippin's better than a scalpin'.

  Uncle Shiloh Clegg : Ain't gonna be no scalpin' neither.

  Sandy : How are you gonna stop it, Uncle Shiloh?

  [points to gun-totting Navahos] 

• 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.

• Sandy : Gosh, all those women and children.

  Travis Blue : Yeah, and that red-headed gal.

• 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.