Wagon Train (TV Series)
The Jed Polke Story (1961)
Ron Hayes: Ross Amber
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Quotes
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Walt Keene : Have you ever been hungry, Mister? I mean not just for a day or two. But everyday and every night for sixteen months. Four hundred and eighty seven days so hungry you'd eat strap leather. A day's ration was a pinch of meal, a dried up sweet potato. Sometimes, if you were lucky, a scrap of vermin infested meat.
Dr. Allison Day : You've heard of Andersonville, Mr Hawks?
Bill Hawks : You mean the Confederate prison in Georgia?
Ross Amber : Pesthole of the South.
Dr. Allison Day : Prisoners sometimes develop strong habits of survival, hoarding scraps of food is one of them. Sometimes it carries over.
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Flint McCullough : What have you got against him?
Ross Amber : A son, Mr McCullough, a son.
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Rheba Polke : You hate Jed, don't you and Dr Day?
Walt Keene : A mild word for what we feel about Jed Polke. We're gonna kill him.
Ross Amber : [a speechless Rheba leaves] She didn't know, Walt. She didn't know about us and Andersonville.
Walt Keene : Don't you go soft on me now. Not now.
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Flint McCullough : You planning on leaving the train?
Ross Amber : Any objections?
Flint McCullough : Well, there's a Kiowa war party somewhere in these hills. They get pretty tough on a single wagon.
Ross Amber : We'll chance it.
Flint McCullough : [Flint hears a boy whimpering] Sounds like you're not travelling alone.
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Walt Keene : you done us a turn bringing him in, McCullough. Jed don't belong with this wagon train. When you move out in the morning, leave him behind.
Flint McCullough : I don't know anything about Jed Polke. He's got a wife and a kid that don't know anything about Andersonville. When we move out, his wagon goes with us.
Ross Amber : We just want Jed, McCullough.
Flint McCullough : That's a matter for the Army courts.
Walt Keene : Jed's already had his trial. Fourteen of us, Ten dead,four who will never forget.
Flint McCullough : We'll be in Fort Stockton in five days. When we get there you can press charges to the Military authorities.
Walt Keene : No, you're wrong, Mr McCullough. Jed ain't never gonna make it to Fort Stockton.
