The Scalphunters (1968)
Burt Lancaster: Joe Bass
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Quotes
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Joseph Lee : [walking behind Joe Bass and his horse] What about me, sir?
Joe Bass : I'll just sell you to the highest bidder.
Joseph Lee : Could you mske that to a Comanche, sir?
Joe Bass : You seem to have an uncommon prejudice against service to the white-skinned race!
Joseph Lee : I don't mean to be narrow in my attitude. Could I ask you what's your name, sir?
Joe Bass : Joe Bass.
Joseph Lee : Well, Mr. Bass, couldn't you kind of consider me a captured Comanche?
Joe Bass : [both Joe Bass and his horse turn around and do a 'take']
Joseph Lee : I came on my own two feet as far as those Comanches. It was my intent to circle south as far as Mexico. The Mexicans have a law against the slavery trade, and since those Indians captured me from other Indians. I have now got full Indian citizenship.
Joe Bass : Joseph Lee, you ever study the law?
Joseph Lee : No, sir.
Joe Bass : Well, neither did I, but you ain't got a chance in hell of calling yerself an Indian! You're an African slave by employment, black by color!
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Joe Bass : If God ever made two greater inventions than a pretty woman and a bottle of whiskey, I ain't heard of it!
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Joe Bass : Scalp hunters. Collect a $25 bounty on Indian scalps. Men, women, and children like jackals. Territory government pays it. Dirtiest, rottenest trade ever turned a dollar.
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Joe Bass : You mean you want to stay with these, with these heathens?
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Joe Bass : [to the Indians who are bilking him out of his furs] You're all right, Two Crows. You oughta be a white man. They'd make you captain of the steamboat and president of the bank. Just because you own this damn country!
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Joe Bass : You ever fight twelve drunk Indians?
Joseph Lee : No, sir, but I'd like to see it done.
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Joe Bass : [to Joseph Lee] Throw you in a pigpen, and you'd come out vice-president of the hogs.
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Joe Bass : What the hell are you standin' there for? Can't you speak English?
Joseph Lee : No, sir!
Joe Bass : Whattaya mean, 'No, sir'?
Joseph Lee : I mean I wish I didn't.
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Joe Bass : [surfacing out of the river and startling Joseph Lee] Julius Caesar. You're a hell of a dancing man but you sure can't fight.
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Joe Bass : [watching Jin Howie apparently riding off leaving Joe's furs] . Don't seem right - that man doing an honest thing.