Overland Trail (TV Series)

Most Dangerous Gentleman (1960)

William Bendix: Fred Kelly

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Quotes 

• Frank 'Flip' Flippen : What's a gandy dancer?

  Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : It's railroad talk for a track gang laborer. Railroad men have a language all their own.

  Frank 'Flip' Flippen : If you thought so much of 'em, how come you ever left 'em?

  Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : We put a stage line across the country before they ever made rails. We still beat their time on short hauls. General Palmer was my commanding officer during the war. He saved my life once, Flip. That's one reason I'm doing this.

  Frank 'Flip' Flippen : You've got another?

  Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : Yes, I sure have - the Overland Stage lines. The railroads bring more people west than the stagecoach lines can. Most towns are off the railroad. They need service between them. It's as simple as that. We need the railroads to stay in business.

• Frank 'Flip' Flippen : Suppose you need me there. I mean, those hombres can get rough.

  Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : I can get rough, too.

• Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : The Santa Rita wants to stop you real bad, don't they?

  Mike Day : Yeah. They almost did.

  Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : As one Irishman to another - are things always as quiet as this?

  Mike Day : Kelly, don't tell me you've forgotten the pressures of railroadin' already?

  Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : No, nobody forgets them, Mike

  Mike Day : Well, I was just thinkin' a nice soft job like runnin' the Overland Stage had made you a little soft.

  Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : Nice, easy job? You ought to try to make just one run to Sacramento - indians, outlaws, roads washed out...

  Mike Day : That's too bad. You know, I was thinkin' about takin' up stagecoachin' when I got too old for railroadin'.

• Mike Day : Why do we always have to fight?

  Jennifer Dean : Because you're an egotistical stubborn man who thinks every woman he meets should swoon into his arms.

  Mike Day : Well, most of them do!

  Jennifer Dean : Ohh!

  Mike Day : Besides, whoever said you were a woman. You act more like an Irish section hand - and just as tough.

  Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : Wait a minute! Wa-a-ait a minute. Hold it. Is this a private fight or can anyone get in?

• [last lines] 

  Frank 'Flip' Flippen : I can't see what you like about railroadin'. Too peaceful to suit me. It's like ridin' in a rockin' chair. I'll take a Concord coach any day.

  Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : You know something, Flip. I decided the same thing a long time ago. Just the same, railroading has it's moments.

  Frank 'Flip' Flippen : Yeah, but no girls.

  Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : Well...

  [Mike, seated next to two beautiful women on the back of a train, waves to Kelly and Flip, then kisses the blonde passionately] 

  Frank 'Flip' Flippen : Yep, railroadin's a hard life. Get up, Agnes!

  [Kelly cracks his whip and the stagecoach heads down the road] 

• Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly : Mr. President, I'd like to have you meet Michael Day. He practically built the Denver and Rio Grande single-handed. Mike, the President of the United States.

  President Ulysses S. Grant : Oh, I've already met Mr. Day.

  Mike Day : Well, I'm very proud to make your acquaintance , Mr. President.

  President Ulysses S. Grant : Just call me "Whiskers."