The Narrow Corner (1933)

William V. Mong: Jack Swan

Quotes 

• Captain Nichols : I'm a seafaring man, myself.

  Jack Swan : I been Captain of a schooner in the slave trade. You go up to Port Moresby and ask anybody about Jack Swan. They'll remember me. I'm the first white man to ever walk across the islands, alone.

  Captain Nichols : Blackbirding, eh? Have you ever run Chinamen? Well, I have.

  Jack Swan : I've been a blacksmith, a planter and a trader.

  Captain Nichols : I've run a donkey engine, skinned mules, and fought cannibals. I've made a bit of money in my time.

  Jack Swan : Well, I was ruined by the great hurricane. Lost everything I had. I've had four wives and more children than you could count.

• Jack Swan : I spent seven years in New Guinea, I did. I speak every language that is ever spoke in New Guinea. Go up there and ask anybody.

  Captain Nichols : Don't talk to me about New Guinea. There was a chief there wanted me to marry one of his black daughters, he did. If I'd a had any sense, I'd stayed there and been king of the cannibal islands.