First Driver Quotes in The Wrong Box (1966)

[Aboard a train engine after a wreck]

First Driver: Fred?

Stoker: Yeah?

First Driver: We haven't heard the last of this.

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First Driver: Officer, can you tell me the way to Three Rivers?

Slim Adams: About two miles to the first main intersection, then turn left. It's about sixty miles.

First Driver: Thanks, what town is this?

Slim Adams: Suddenly.

First Driver: Suddenly what?

Slim Adams: No no, that's the name.

First Driver: [laughs] That's a funny name for a town.

Slim Adams: Uh huh, hangover from the old days; that's the way things used to happen here, suddenly.

First Driver: I see.

Slim Adams: Road agents, gamblers, gunfighters.

First Driver: Well, I take it things have changed.

Slim Adams: Uh huh. Things happen so slow now, the town council is figuring to change the name to Gradually.

First Driver: [laughs] Thanks, officer.

Slim Adams: Pleasure, come back.