Yancy Derringer (TV Series)

Return to New Orleans (1958)

Julie Adams: Amanda Eaton

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• Amanda Eaton : Yancy!

  Yancy Derringer : Eight years have done nothing but to improve the unimprovable.

• Amanda Eaton : I want to know about where you've been for the last eight years. Now, come on, tell me everything.

  Yancy Derringer : Do you mind if I tell you in a pair of dry britches?

  Amanda Eaton : You may use my cabin to preserve your dignity... if you have any left.

  Yancy Derringer : Do you think I'll be safe in here?

  Amanda Eaton : That's up to you.

• Amanda Eaton : Now I want you to tell me where you've been all this time and what's happened to you.

  Yancy Derringer : All right. I got shot at Cold Harbor, spent a year in a Yankee prison hospital, escaped, the war was over, went out West to strike it rich, didn't, got your telegram.

  Amanda Eaton : The telegram - why, that's it! In John Colton's position, he could have intercepted that telegram.

  Yancy Derringer : That's the second time today I've heard Mr. Colton's name.

  Amanda Eaton : He's the administrator of New Orleans.

  Yancy Derringer : Now what would the Yankee administrator of New Orleans want with a poor old Johnny Reb like me?

  Yancy Derringer : He's out to kill you.

• Harmon Steele : You live in luck - but this time it's all run out.

  Amanda Eaton : Who are you? What do you want?

  Harmon Steele : Get out of the way.

  Yancy Derringer : Now you better do as the gentleman says, Amanda, or you might get hit with the buckshot, too.

  Harmon Steele : Buckshot?

  Yancy Derringer : Friend, do you have a feeling that there's someone behind you?

  Harmon Steele : There's nobody there.

  Yancy Derringer : I'm sure you remember him. He's kind of a big fellow, Pawnee Indian, with a double-barreled shotgun that's right now pointed at the back of your head. Have you ever seen a man that was hit with both barrels? Ah, it's a sad sight. First it knocks him him about ten feet, then they have to mop him up off the deck. It's just awful.

  Harmon Steele : Keep away from me.

  Yancy Derringer : Now don't you go gettin' nervous, 'cause that Indian is nervous enough and that scatter gun's got hair triggers. Now you just better hand over that pistol because in three seconds you're going to lose all your worries.

• Yancy Derringer : Well, I declare - a homecoming party.

  Amanda Eaton : Yancy, th-there's something I didn't tell you.

  Yancy Derringer : Amanda, there have been so many surprises tonight, let me figure this one all by myself.

• John Colton : If you accepted my military escort, this wouldn't have happened.

  Amanda Eaton : Let me go!

  John Colton : Do you understand now?

  Yancy Derringer : Ah, yes. My lady love here wanted to be a two-time widow without having been a one-time wife.

• Yancy Derringer : Faithful, true-blue Amanda.

  Amanda Eaton : I wish I really were your widow!

• Amanda Eaton : Oh, I hate you! You'll pay for this sometime!

  Yancy Derringer : That's the way it goes. The lady wanted to be a widow; now she is.