The Walking Dead (1936)

Boris Karloff: John Ellman

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Quotes 

• [looking up to Heaven while being led to the electric chair] 

  John Ellman : *He'll* believe me.

• John Ellman : Last night I thought you were my friend. You took my life!

  'Trigger' Smith : [contemptuously]  I'm gonna take it again unless you got cat blood in ya. No one's gonna bring you back this time.

  John Ellman : You can't kill me again!

• John Ellman : [responding to Beaumont's questions while dying]  Leave the dead to their makers. The Lord thy God is a jealous God.

  Dr. Evan Beaumont : [feeling a sense of urgency]  But John, what is death? Can't you put it into words? Tell me! Tell me! You must! What is death?

  John Ellman : I think I can...

  [after a pause] 

  John Ellman : After the shock...

  Dr. Evan Beaumont : Yes?

  John Ellman : I seemed to feel...

  Dr. Evan Beaumont : Yes?

  John Ellman : ...peace and a...

  [dies] 

• John Ellman : Why did you have me killed?

• John Ellman : [in the prison as he awaits execution, hoping for a reprieve]  But you can't kill me for something that I didn't do! You can't, I tell you, you can't! I don't want to die! I want to live!

  Prison Warden : Well, Ellman, it's within my power to grant any last request you care to make.

  John Ellman : [sounding slightly bitter]  You take away my life and offer me a favor in return. That's what I call a "bargain."