Black Moon (1934)
Jack Holt: Stephen Lane
Quotes
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Stephen Lane : Who is he? What's he like?
Gail Hamilton : He's the most wonderful man in the world.
Stephen Lane : They all say that; but, has he got a job?
Gail Hamilton : Yes. A good job.
Stephen Lane : When's the wedding?
Gail Hamilton : No wedding.
Stephen Lane : What's wrong?
Gail Hamilton : What's wrong with all the wonderful men? Just one little thing a girl keeps running into. They're married.
Stephen Lane : What are you gonna do about it?
Gail Hamilton : Well, I'm not going to live in sin. Partly because he hasn't asked me to. And partly because I'm not cut out for that sort of thing. And I doubt very much that I'll kill myself. So, I'm ducking.
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Stephen Lane : Hear that? This may sound silly and have no bearing on the case, but she's always playing with drums. Not toy drums, but, native drums - from the island of St. Christropher. She was born there. There are two white people there - her uncle and an overseer and a couple a thousand blacks.
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Stephen Lane : What kind of an island is St. Christopher?
'Lunch' McClaren : Oh, a nice island. Got to learn to like it, though. Same thing all the time. Same thing gets kinda tiresome, all the time. Still, I gotta good job. I runs this boat. Good eatin'. Store bought clothes, once in awhile. Gotta nice little girl too. Of course, she's a monkey-chaser.
Stephen Lane : Monkey-chaser? What's a monkey-chaser?
'Lunch' McClaren : Oh, just a nickname they give the natives down there.
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Dr. Raymond Perez : Listen. The sun is just setting.
Stephen Lane : What is it?
Dr. Raymond Perez : Drums. Rada drums.
Stephen Lane : Rada drums?
Dr. Raymond Perez : Blood worship. Sacrifice to the black gods. You call it voodoo.
Stephen Lane : What does it mean?
Dr. Raymond Perez : Who knows. But, this I do know, never have the drums beat so on St. Christopher without trouble.
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Stephen Lane : What's the matter?
'Lunch' McClaren : There's trouble in my mind.
Stephen Lane : What kind of trouble?
'Lunch' McClaren : Gal trouble.
[Lane starts to laugh]
'Lunch' McClaren : Don't laugh, Mr. Lane. My gal done got mixed up with that Rada stuff.
Stephen Lane : You mean the voodoo?
'Lunch' McClaren : Them voodoo priests want to kill her.
Stephen Lane : Kill her? Why?
'Lunch' McClaren : One of dem things. Same thing thats keepin' you on this island, sir.
Stephen Lane : What's that?
'Lunch' McClaren : Voodoo.
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Nancy Lane : Daddy, what's a passport?
Stephen Lane : Well, a passport's something that you have to have before you can go some place.