Yancy Derringer (TV Series)
Fire on the Frontier (1959)
Jock Mahoney: Yancy Derringer
Quotes
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Yancy Derringer : Mr. Colton, have you ever noticed the medal Pahoo wears?
John Colton : Yes.
Yancy Derringer : Well, it commemorates the treaty made by the United States and the Pawnee nation, the Table Creek Treaty. It was signed by the Great White Father - President Buchanan in 1857 - and it guaranteed the Pawnee nation the protection of the U.S. Army against the Cheyenne and Arapahoe.
John Colton : Pahoo, listen to me. Go back to your tribe, yes, have them appoint you their spokesman, then go back to Washington; demand your legal rights. Make the War Department protect your people with soldiers as the treaty says.
Yancy Derringer : Exactly what I had in mind.
John Colton : Oh?
Yancy Derringer : I thought you might give us a letter of introduction to the right people.
John Colton : Of course.
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Colorado Charlie : You savvy this won't be no picnic for Pahoo. What I mean is feelings run high. There's too many greenhorns that figure the only good Indian is a dead one.
Yancy Derringer : It's up to you and I to civilize 'em.
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Train Conductor : This redskin with you?
Yancy Derringer : This gentleman is traveling with us, yes.
Train Conductor : Not on this train, mister. Not first class. We don't carry no hair-raising aborigines with decent folks. He rides in the baggage car with the other animals or he gets thrown off. Those are the rules.
Colorado Charlie : Well now, friend, I gotta couple of rules of my own. One of 'em is a white man with a big fat mouth gets offered the back of my fist!
Yancy Derringer : Charlie! No.
Colorado Charlie : Aw, Yancy, he's got one comin'.
Yancy Derringer : No.
Colorado Charlie : Just a little one.
Yancy Derringer : No.
Colorado Charlie : Not a tooth-breaker.
Yancy Derringer : We're on a peace mission, remember?
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[Yancy, Pahoo and Charlie are eating chicken among the poultry cases in the baggage compartment]
Colorado Charlie : What's so humorous, Yance?
Yancy Derringer : I was just thinking of the look on John Colton's face if he could see us associating with these high dignitaries.
Colorado Charlie : That's more than he can say. At least we're among friends.
Yancy Derringer : That's more than the chickens can say.
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Yancy Derringer : Well now, old horse, what do we do? Pitch a tent on the White House lawn?
Colorado Charlie : Naw, in civilization there's always one place that's tolerant to aborigines like us. C'mon, I'll show you.
[scene dissolves to a livery stable]
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Colorado Charlie : Say, Yance, that fellow you chopped down back there - his name is Dingo, Jack Dingo. I've seen him before.
Yancy Derringer : Where?
Colorado Charlie : Out in Injun territory. You want to buy trouble? He sells it... ammunition, guns, whiskey. Now I wonder what a fellow like that is doin' here in Washington?
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[last lines]
John Colton : What are you doing here?
Agatha Colton : I was going to send my regards, but then Yancy persuaded me to bring them along in person.
John Colton : Yancy? You mean you traveled all the way from Washington with him without a chaperone?
Colorado Charlie : Well, now Pahoo was there - and I was there with him.
John Colton : Yancy, you're going to answer to me for this!
Yancy Derringer : Charlie, I'm afraid I'll have to agree with you. I really don't understand how such a beautiful sister could have such a homely brother.
Colorado Charlie : Yeah! Yeah!