Poker Alice (1987 TV Movie)
David Wayne: Amos
Quotes
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Alice Moffitt : Where is she...your woman?
Amos : I buried her. Had to...she was dead. Yeah, I come here one day and she was sittin' at the table deader than a can of corned beef. The poor old woman didn't even have a chance to finish her bowl of prunes. It hit me plenty hard, ma'am. But what come close to shakin' me was after I done finished diggin' her grave. I come in here to get her and she was all stiffen up...harder than a railroad tie. I had to bury her sittin' up! The poor old woman has to sit up straight and proper until judgment day.
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Cousin John Moffit : We'd like to go to New Orleans.
Amos : From here?
Cousin John Moffit : Well, we got to here from there. You do have trains going East don't you? They don't just all go West and disappear, do they?
Amos : We got just as many going East as going West. That's kinda the way it works out.
Cousin John Moffit : When is the, er, next one?
Amos : Four days.
Cousin John Moffit : Four days?
Amos : Well now, there's a westbound going through tomorrow morning. You can take that as far as Cake City, if you've a mind to, and lay over there for the eastbound.
Cousin John Moffit : Is there nothing at all until tomorrow morning?
Amos : That's what I just got done telling you didn't I? Now, if you care to set a spell, I'll take you over to my house and I can rent you a bed for a dollar. If you're hungry, supper'll be another dollar. If you wanna wash up that's fifty cents, and rags to dry with is a quarter.
Cousin John Moffit : Probably charge for the use of your outhouse too?
Amos : Now what kind of a fella do you think I am to charge you for the use of his outhouse?
Cousin John Moffit : Well, something anyway.
Amos : Paper'll cost you fifty cents.