The Gray Ghost (TV Series)
Mosby's Rangers (1957)
Tod Andrews: Maj. John Singleton Mosby (The Gray Ghost)
Quotes
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[first lines]
[watching a train steaming up a grade]
Sam Chapman : The good old Baltimore and Ohio - war and peace, she's right on time.
Maj. John Singleton Mosby : That's right, Sam, but I'll bet a Yankee dollar she loses a few minutes out of the next ten.
[glancing at Mosby's men arrayed along the track]
Sam Chapman : I wouldn't be surprised.
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[historic quotes]
General Staughton : Who are you?
Maj. John Singleton Mosby : Ever hear of John Mosby?
General Staughton : You mean you captured him!
Maj. John Singleton Mosby : No - but he's captured you!
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Capt. Alan Morrow : So you're Mosby, the Gray Ghost, huh?
Maj. John Singleton Mosby : That's what they say.
Capt. Alan Morrow : Well, you're one ghost who won't haunt this country again - at least not before you're hanged.
Maj. John Singleton Mosby : Oh, so you Yankees hang prisoners of war, huh? Well, that figures.
Capt. Alan Morrow : You and your men have no claim to being soldiers! You're guerillas, outlaws and bandits. You're undisciplined rabble!
Maj. John Singleton Mosby : When a man's country is fighting for its life, Yankee, he fights with all he's got. Maybe they didn't teach you that at West Point.
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General Staughton : I'll have you hanged by the heels for this. Guard!
Maj. John Singleton Mosby : You Yankees sure do a lot of hangin' talk.