Wagon Master (1950)
Ben Johnson: Travis Blue
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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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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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Travis Blue : [after Sandy pushes a gun down the back of his pants] Be careful or you'll blow yer brains out.
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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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Travis Blue : Tell ya' the truth, Sandy; I'm lost.
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[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]
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Travis Blue : Feet hurt, ma'am?
Denver : Nope!
Travis Blue : Well here, try these on!
[Hands here a pair of walking shoes, she puts them on]
Denver : Did you get these from that... red-headed gal?
Travis Blue : You mean Miss Prudence?... yes ma'am.
Denver : Is she your wife?
Travis Blue : No ma'am... How do they feel?
Denver : Fine. A little large for me maybe, but fine. Thanks very much, and thank your lady friend.
[Denver arises, and starts to walk away, Travis looks after her]
Travis Blue : She ain't that either ma'am!
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[repeated line]
Travis Blue , Elder Wiggs : Wagons West!
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[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'.
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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!
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Travis Blue : Sure hope that I see you again, Miss Denver.
Denver : Thanks, but don't plan on it, We move around. The medicine show has to, to stay healthy.
Travis Blue : We move around a lot trading horses. Good thing about it, though, you get to see a lot of pretty country, like the valley I got in mind. A man can make an awfully nice little cattle ranch in that valley. If he doesn't mind being lonesome.
Denver : [pauses] Good luck, fellow.
[She runs away, blinded by tears]
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Travis Blue : Sure hope I see you again, Miss Denver.
Denver : Thanks, but don't think on it. We move around. The medice will show you have to to keep healthy.
Travis Blue : We move around a lot trading horses. Good thing about it, though: You get see alot of pretty country, like the valley I've got in mind. A man can make an awfully nice little cattle ranch in that valley, if he didn't mind being lonesome, and some one to help him with the cooking and such...
Denver : [pauses] Goodbye, fellow.
[She runs away, blinded by tears]
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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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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]
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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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Travis Blue : Me and my partner, we was kinda figurin' on settIin' and playin' a little High-Low Jick, Jack, Ginny and the Bean Gun.
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Sandy : Gosh, all those women and children.
Travis Blue : Yeah, and that red-headed gal.
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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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Denver : Have I your permission to take a bath now?
Travis Blue : Why, yes, ma'am. I reckon you...
Denver : Thank you.
Travis Blue : Hey, ma'am. I think I'll join you.
Denver : Fine.
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Travis Blue : May I have the pleasure, ma'am?
Denver : Why not?
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Travis Blue : No call to get mad at me, ma'am.
Denver : And don't call me ''ma'am.''
Travis Blue : No, ma'am.
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Travis Blue : Sandy, I think I'll go a-courtin'.
