Perry Mason (TV Series)

The Case of the Golden Oranges (1963)

Arthur Hunnicutt: Amos Keller

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• [last lines] 

  Amos Kenesaw Mountain Keller : Hardtack! Hardtack! Where are you, boy? Come on, Hardtack. Come on, come on. That's a boy. That's a boy.

• Perry Mason : [Addressing previous witness being dismissed]  I'd say you hit three lemons, Mrs. Doyle.

  [Perry turning to judge:] 

  Perry Mason : Your Honor, may I recall Amos Keller a moment, not so much for furtherance of this case, as in the interest of justice?

  Perry Mason : Mr. Keller, do you remember a certain Mr. Charles Fellows of Cody, Wyoming?

  Amos Kenesaw Mountain Keller : Sure, he was in my company in Cuba. Big shot politician now.

  Perry Mason : You didn't know that he died last week?

  Amos Kenesaw Mountain Keller : Uh, Charley?... Dead?

  Perry Mason : Yes, and it seems you were mentioned in his will, from which I now quote: "And finally, to the finest liar I've ever known: Amos Kennesaw Mountain Keller, whose talents reached a peak the night he, company clerk, took the place of a frightened 16-year-old boy in the attack on San Juan Hill, and through his bravery, won a medal. To Amos, to whom I long ago gave the medal, I now bequeath my sword, my dress uniform, and my eternal thanks for keeping secret something which would certainly have destroyed a boy's family as well as his future."

  Amos Kenesaw Mountain Keller : This was all in Charley's will? That mean I can really wear this now?

  [holding up the Medal of Honor, and then pinning it to his lapel] 

  Perry Mason : Yes Mr. Keller, for the rest of your life.

• Sandra Keller : [Mr. Keller fires a warning shot, knocking down a branch from a nearby tree full of oranges. The land developer trying to take Keller's orange grove hurries away]  You really shouldn't have done that, grandpa.

  Amos Kenesaw Mountain Keller : I got a right to pick my oranges any way I want to, haven't I?