Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Gussie: You know, I don`t like that fellow. He`s the kind who will pat you on your back to your face, and then laugh in your face behind your back.
Ruth Cameron: Zack, you`re not really leaving us?
Zeke: Yeah, gal, I`m pullin` out. You`re all nice and settled now and this here valley is getting altogether too civilized for me. Whenever I get more than three or four families within a hundred miles of me, I begin to feel kind of crowded.
Gussie: Zeke, did you hear that terrible crash?
Zeke: Hear it? I seen it! That was your wagon!
Gussie: Was my mother-in-law in it?
Breck Coleman, Wagon Train Scout: We can`t turn back! We`re blazing a trail that started in England. Not even the storms of the sea could turn back the first settlers. And they carrie dit on further. They blazed it on through the wilderness of Kentucky. Famine, hunger, not even massacres could stop them. And now we picked up the trail again. And nothing can stop us! Not even the snows of winter, nor the peaks of the highest mountain. We`re building a nation and we got to suffer! No great trail was ever built without hardship. And you got to fight! That`s right. And when you stop fighting, that`s death. What are you going to do, lay down and die? Not in a thousand years! You`re going on with me!
Caption: Ten weary miles a day. There is no road, but there is a will, and history cuts the way.
Caption: They have not turned back, those who died; they stay and yet they go forward. Their spirit leads.
Caption: The last outpost, the turning back place for the weak; the starting place for the strong.
Caption: Prairie schooners rolling west, praying for peace - but ready for battle.
Caption: Dedicated to the men and women who planted civilization in the wilderness and courage in the blood of their children.
Gussie`s Mother-in-Law: I was with your wife, Sarah, and she gave birth to twins.
Gussie: Twins? Are they both mine?
Pa Bascom: What did they do, Coleman?
Breck Coleman, Wagon Train Scout: Killed my best friend. And I`ve been on their trail ever since.
Pa Bascom: That`s a serious charge. If you`re sure, we`ll call a settler`s meeting in the morning to try `em.
Breck Coleman, Wagon Train Scout: You can call a settler`s meeting to bury `em!
Pa Bascom: What do you mean?
Breck Coleman, Wagon Train Scout: I kill my own rats.
Ruth Cameron: They say you`re going to hunt down Flack and Lopez.
Breck Coleman, Wagon Train Scout: That`s what I aim to do.
Ruth Cameron: But you can`t do this awful thing - take two lives.
Breck Coleman, Wagon Train Scout: Frontier justice.
Ruth Cameron: Look how queer his horse is acting!
Zeke: Yeah, he`s riding zigzag - that`s the Indian sign for palaver. There`s the chief riding out to meet him now for a powwow.
Zeke: When a man begins to do a lot of talking about hanging, he better make pretty sure as to who is going to decorate the end of the rope.
Red Flack, Wagon Boss: Well, if it ain`t Bill Thorpe, hey? I always thought you was hung and planted, I expect.
Bill Thorpe: No, my time ain`t arrived yet.
Red Flack, Wagon Boss: But it looks as though it might be drawing close.
Bill Thorpe: Well, I`ve been promised a hanging bee if I don`t get out on the Penzy Belle, and the Captain promised me a necktie party if I set foot on the boat. It`s a case of nowhere to go.
Red Flack, Wagon Boss: It appears to me you do your shooting by daylight with too many people looking on, hey?
Marshal: Thorpe, why don`t you get back on the Penzy Belle (a riverboat) and make yourself scarce. If you`re here when the boat pulls out, the boys will certainly lead your pony out from under ya.
[Breck speaking over Wendy`s grave]
Breck Coleman, Wagon Train Scout: Well, Zeke, old Wendy has gone on another trail.
Trivia
Reportedly this film debuted at a running time of 158 minutes. However, this is unconfirmed as of May 2008.
Incredibly, five different versions of this film were shot simultaneously. (1) a 70mm version in the Grandeur process for exhibition in the biggest movie palaces; (2) a standard 35mm version for general release; (3) a 35mm alternate French language version Piste des géants, La (1931)` (4) a 35 mm alternate Spanish language version Gran jornada, La (1931), and (5) a 35 mm alternate German language version Große Fahrt, Die (1931). The three alternate language versions were shot with (mostly) different casts.
This was his only talking film of Tyrone Power Sr., father of Tyrone Power. He died in 1931.
Gary Cooper turned down the role of Breck Coleman.
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