Branded (TV Series)

Salute the Soldier Briefly (1965)

Michael Rennie: Charles Briswell

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• Lt. Shanley : I served under the Captain at Shiloh, Fredericksburg, and in the Comanche wars.

  Charles Briswell : But fortunately, not at Bitter Creek.

  Jason McCord : As I recall, you lost two good friends at Bitter Creek.

  Lt. Shanley : As I recall, you lost thirty.

• Charles Briswell : Everybody knows Apaches don't fight at night.

  Jason McCord : That's what everybody thinks, Briswell. You haven't been in this country long enough or you'd know, Apaches fight when they're in the mood. Day or night.

  Charles Briswell : Are you calling me a liar, McCord?

  Jason McCord : Thirty dead troopers at Bitter Creek are calling you a liar. That massacre happened at night.

• Charles Briswell : I saw the whole battle from a butte where I was prospecting.

  Wheeler - Miner : Well, how come you didn't know him?

  Charles Briswell : I did, but he wasn't advertising his name so I didn't. You were handed a rotten deal. The Army would have given you a medal if they'd seen what I saw.

  Wheeler - Miner : Well, you ain't gonna see nothing else 'cos we're gonna hang you. And you might have some company.

• Charles Briswell : Quite nice. But I didn't steal it. I've got a watch.

  Wheeler - Miner : The way we figure it, you're a music lover. Right, boys, you broke the old man's neck just to get his music.

  Sample - Miner : You sure ain't got much time to keep track of Mr Briswell.

  Charles Briswell : This trial is a mockery of justice. You haven't listened to one word of my defence. I have a right to a fair trial. I demand a fair trial. This is nothing but a kangaroo court.

• Jason McCord : You said you were prospecting there. You don't act or look like a prospector.

  Charles Briswell : I don't grovel with a pick or shovel, if that's what you mean. I'm a geologist. Magna cum Laude, Oxford. I spent years following the elusive yellow from India to South America, finally, here.

• Charles Briswell : I saw McCord shoot down five Apaches. Then he ran out of bullets and he started using his sabre> Two more Apaches were sliced lengthways. Like bloody melons.

  Jason McCord : Those details are necessary.

  Charles Briswell : You never know what small detail may help. Where was I? Oh, yes, he tracked down three more Apaches.

  Lt. Shanley : You said two.

  Charles Briswell : I did? They were falling all around like leaves. Anyway, suddenly, one of them came up behind McCord and laid him out with the butt of a carbine directly beside the body of Colonel Reid.

• Jason McCord : That tree you said you were hiding behind up on the hill. Was it a juniper?

  Charles Briswell : And that first Indian you shot, did he have two feathers in his hair, or three?

  Jason McCord : I see what you mean.

  Charles Briswell : I was watching a massacre. I wasn't classifying trees.