Kick the Can Quotes

Kick the Can is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Kick the Can ended in 1970.

It features Stock (many cues taken from Bernard Herrmann's score to Walking Distance) in charge of musical score.

The cast includes: Ernest Truex as Charles Whitley, Russell Collins as Ben Conroy, and John Marley as Mr. Cox.

Kick the Can Quotes

Ernest Truex as Charles Whitley

• (Ernest Truex) "Maybe, the fountain of youth isn't a fountain at all. Maybe, it's a way of looking at things; a way of thinking."

• (Ernest Truex) "What a choice; to keep an attendant from pawing at my pulse all day, I have to sit like a vegetable on that porch."

• (Ernest Truex) "Well, maybe you gotta be a little crazy to make the magic work."

• (Ernest Truex) "Are you the same ones that used to skip rope; and hunt for polliwogs? Huh? And run through sprinklers; huh?"
• (Ernest Truex) "Run through sprinklers."

• (Ernest Truex) "You believed in magic then."
• (Russell Collins) "Me? Magic."
• (Ernest Truex) "Yes, you did. When we walked on different sides of a street lamp you'd say 'bread and butter'. And when your baby teeth came out, you put 'em under the pillow for the tooth fairy. Yeah, you believed in magic."

John Marley as Mr. Cox

• (John Marley) "I'll bet Whitley's taken them all down to the orchard. Come on."
• (Russell Collins) "Look all you want, Mr. Cox, you won't find them."

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