Wagon Train (TV Series)

Weight of Command (1961)

Denny Miller: Duke Shannon

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• Duke Shannon : He's out on a one man scout.

  Bill Hawks : Where?

  Duke Shannon : Don't know. Said he'd have to pass up on the hunt, wants you to go on without him. I, ah, tried to tell him it wasn't much use getting riled up about Indians in this country.

  Charlie Wooster : That was a mistake, wasn't it?

  Duke Shannon : It was. Is he like that all day or just when he rolls out in the morning?

  Bill Hawks : Duke, he's like a forty rod whiskey. The first drink you take is kinda hard to get down. A little practice it gets a lot easier.

  Duke Shannon : Guess I ain't had that much practice.

• Major Seth Adams : Maybe you think that was a stray cavalry horse, but, by golly, I don't. I got a notion that whoever was riding that horse is laying out there on the prairie flat on his back with no hair on his head. And I'd like to bet you it wasn't a cavalry horse, militia.

  Duke Shannon : Cavalry, militia, what's the difference?

  Major Seth Adams : There's a whole lot of difference when it comes to common sense.

• Major Seth Adams : Did you look for any smokes?

  Duke Shannon : Yeah, nothing.

• Judith Foster : Really, Mr Shannon. I can't go on without Dan. There's nothing worse in the world.

  Duke Shannon : Yes, there is, ma'am. Out here there is. You'll just have to take my word for it.