Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Steve Campden Story (1959)

Torin Thatcher: Lord Steve Campden

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Quotes 

• Lord Steve Campden : Like a burnt child, I like profit from experience.

• Lord Steve Campden : As a matter of fact, I doubt there's a peak this side of the Himalayas that I can't manage to master, correction that we can't.

  Flint McCullough : We, huh?

  Lord Steve Campden : You. Me. my son.

• Flint McCullough : Where're you heading?

  Lord Steve Campden : El Arrepentimiento, the Spanish call it, Repentance Mountain. Indians got another name for it, Peak of the Angered God. I say, that's a mountain, McCullough. I say that's my kind of mountain: sharp enough, high enough, mean enough. I've come 7,000 thousand miles for that mountain.

  Flint McCullough : Been climbed.

  Lord Steve Campden : Indians perhaps. Not the West face. I'm after the West face. How about it, McCullough? Care to come along?

  Flint McCullough : Not a chance.

  Lord Steve Campden : Scared?

• Lord Steve Campden : You'd see all the passes from up there.

  Flint McCullough : That's a thought.

• Flint McCullough : I fight better when I can see.

  Lord Steve Campden : We've got ears, brains.

  Flint McCullough : Two 45s, a candle, and a box matches. I don't like the odds. Or the company

  [they all hear the sound of the creatures] 

• Lord Steve Campden : Not too bad a kill. Darkness. A moving target.

  Flint McCullough : It's a cat, all right. An albino.

  Lord Steve Campden : Probably blind. Hunts by sound and smell. A form of puma, maybe.

  Flint McCullough : I never saw a puma with teeth like that.

  Lord Steve Campden : Know anything about the Ice Age, McCullough?

  Flint McCullough : No.

  Lord Steve Campden : This is a leftover. Very suitable to a cave too. A pale white remnant of the Age of the Caves.

  Flint McCullough : Meaning what?

  Lord Steve Campden : Throwback, McCullough. Throwback to the sabre-toothed tiger.

• Lord Steve Campden : I tell you, boy, there's nothing like it in the world. When you stand with your two feet straddling a virgin peak and look at the sky and shout because you've won.

  Steve Campden II : I wasn't doing much shouting on the Winterhorn and that was a comparatively easy park. As our guide said, nice day's climb for a lady.

  Lord Steve Campden : Muscle spasm, vertigo, it happens even to the most experienced climber. But you've learned, Steve. I've taught you.

• Lord Steve Campden : You were lucky. You hit that ledge.

  Flint McCullough : It's about as lucky as you get. I can't see how you got me up here.

  Lord Steve Campden : The boy pulled and I carried you.

  Flint McCullough : Thanks. That's not much to say but.

  Lord Steve Campden : Ah, nonsense. You'd have done it for me, any man. Had to be done.

  [He stikes a match so that Flint can see his broken leg] 

  Lord Steve Campden : It'll have to be set. It'll take the two of you.

  Flint McCullough : At least.

• Flint McCullough : I don't like gentlemen, McCullough, I never did. Too many manners, too few guts. I don't need you, McCullough. I don't need anyone.. I never have and I never will. You ever been to Australia?

  Flint McCullough : No.

  Lord Steve Campden : I was born there. My father was a deportee, convict. New South Wales. My mother died. Ha ha. That made her lucky. I ran away from home when I was 13, hit the London docks with 3 shillings in my pocket, no family, no friends. But I knew where I was headed, the top of the heap. And I got there. Alone. I don't need you, McCullough, I don't need anyone.

  Flint McCullough : All right, you got it.

• Lord Steve Campden : Ha, ha, ha, ha. One has to laugh, Little Steve. The jokes that God plays on one. One has to laugh or cry. A man has courage all his life, not afraid of anybody or anything. Gets to the top of the heap. Out of the slime. Raises himself by his own efforts. Then he has two sons.