Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Allison Justis Story (1960)

Gloria DeHaven: Allison Justis

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Quotes 

• Flint McCullough : Allie... You start running now. I'll count to ten and I'll still beat you to that rock.

  Allison Justis : The rock? At the corner of the schoolhouse.

  Flint McCullough : And I'll carry your books to boot.

• Allison Justis : Now, how about some hot bread and strawberry jam? How does that sound?

  Flint McCullough : Hot bread and strawberry jam. Well, if it's as good as your mother used to make, it sounds fine. Just lead the way.

• Allison Justis : How could I possibly not recognise you, the red hair and those freckles. You haven't changed a bit.

  Flint McCullough : You have. I didn't think a young colt could grow up and fill out to be such a pretty woman.

  Allison Justis : I was right, you haven't changed a bit.

• Billy Justis : I'm gonna kill the man that shot my Dad.

  Allison Justis : Billy-

  [She runs off, upset] 

  Flint McCullough : It's a fine looking rifle, Billy. You ever use it before?

  Billy Justis : Lots of times. Dad taught me. We used to go hunting and- I'm gonna use it on the man that shot Dad.

  Flint McCullough : That's not an easy job for a grown up man, let alone a little boy.

  Billy Justis : I'm big enough.

  Flint McCullough : Sure you're big enough to shoot the gun. You just did.

  Billy Justis : Give it to me.

  Flint McCullough : I'm not going to give it to you. This bullet went into the floor. What if it'd gone through the wall and into the kitchen and hit me or your mother? Ever think of that? If you had, you wouldn't be trying to pull it out of my hands. You'd want to throw it away as far as you possibly could. Believe me, you'd wish you'd never seen a gun in your life. Once a bullet is fired, Billy, you can't take it back, no matter how much you want to. No matter how much you wish you hadn't pulled the trigger. Once a bullet is fired, you can never bring it back.

  Billy Justis : I don't care what you say. I want the gun.

  Flint McCullough : Let me tell you about guns.

  [He draws his pistol] 

  Flint McCullough : You see this one? It's killed a lot of things, yet it's never broken the law. That's one of the terrible things about guns, about carrying one. You see a man go for his gun, you shoot him first because you figure he's going to kill you. In less than a second, a man can get the idea of drawing fire, one second. It's not very long to decide whether he's planning to wound you or threaten you, or kill you. So you kill him first. It's legal. It's honourable. But for the rest of your life, you wonder whether you've killed a man who didn't deserve to be killed.

• Flint McCullough : I don't know what else to say, Allie. Except that I'm sorry.

  Allison Justis : It isn't true. Lou never stole anything in his life. He wouldn't. He couldn't.

  Flint McCullough : I know this is hard for you to accept but there are all the witnesses that you'd care to talk to.

  Allison Justis : My husband is not a horse thief. I don't care what you saw. I don't care what any man, woman or child on that wagon train saw. He did not do such a thing.

  Flint McCullough : Don't you think I've asked myself over and over again, from every angle. Why should he steal when he had so much to lose and so little to gain. I admit it, it doesn't make much sense but don't ask me to deny what I saw.

  Allison Justis : You saw it wrong, Flint.

  Flint McCullough : I've told you the truth, Allie.

  Allison Justis : I don't believe it.

• Flint McCullough : If there was something I could do, I'd be glad to stay.

  Allison Justis : Every time I looked at you. I'd have to think... how useless it all was. Maybe later. Time will take care of things. Maybe in a few years.

  Flint McCullough : Yeah, in a few years... Allie, ah, if, in a few years, you decide maybe to forgive me, I'd appreciate it very much if you'd try to let me know.