King of the Zombies (1941)
Mantan Moreland: Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson
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Quotes
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Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [Squeezing between two hypnotized "zombies"] Move over, boys, I'm one of the gang now.
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Samantha, the Maid : What you doing in that lineup?
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : Don't bother me, woman. Can't you see I is a has-been?
Samantha, the Maid : A zombie?
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : Nothing else but. And don't ask me my name, 'cuz I don't know. I don't know nothing.
Samantha, the Maid : You ain't no zombie, 'cuz zombies can't talk.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : Can I help it 'cuz I'm loquacious?
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Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [hearing voodoo drums] It ain't Gene Krupa!
[famous American drummer of the 1940s]
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Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [Eating the food set out for the zombies] This being a zombie sure is a drawback. Where's the salt?
Samantha, the Maid : You eats that the way it is and likes it. Zombies ain't supposed to use salt.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [Samantha brings Jeff the salt] I thought you said!
Samantha, the Maid : I changed my mind.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [Samantha continues to pour the salt] That's more like it. Take it easy there woman, I ain't no herring!
Samantha, the Maid : Now eat.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [Samantha keeps pouring the salt] Whew! What is you trying to do? Poison me?
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Bill Summers : [They have just survived a plane crash] Hey! Hey!
Bill Summers : [Jeff is lying in a shallow hole next to a tombstone that reads "Rest in Peace"] What's the matter with you?
Jeff : Is that you, Mr. Bill? Did they have you in a hole, too?
Bill Summers : What are you talking about? What do you mean, "In a hole"?
Jeff : Ain't we dead?
Bill Summers : Of course we're not dead.
Jeff : I thought I was a little off-color to be a ghost.
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Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : If there's one thing that I wouldn't want to be twice, zombies is both of 'em.
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Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [after Dr. Sangre has shown Bill Summers and James McCarthy to their sleeping quarters] Excuse me, Mr. Doctor, but didn't you forget something?
Dr. Miklos Sangre : I think not.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : What about me?
Dr. Miklos Sangre : You will be taken care of.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : That's what I'm afraid of.
Dr. Miklos Sangre : In the servants' quarters. Momba will show you the way.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [scared] Momba? That goblin?
Dr. Miklos Sangre : He won't hurt you -- if he likes you.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : And if he don't?
Dr. Miklos Sangre : [shrugs] Well.
Bill Summers : It'll be all right, Jeff.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : For who?
Dr. Miklos Sangre : [loud] Momba.
[Momba walks over to him]
Dr. Miklos Sangre : [almost a whisper, in German] Dieser Kaffer nach unten.
[take this oaf downstairs]
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : [scared, trying to make friends with Momba] You ain't by any chance a member of the Mystic Knights of the Pink Garters, is you?
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Bill Summers : It's the same drums we heard the other night. Voodoo drums! Come on, we've got to find him!
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : Oh, Mr. Bill, we found enough for one day!
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Bill Summers : [about to chase off after another eerie happening] Come on!
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : I cain't, my foot done took to root.
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James McCarthy : [flying the plane, talking into radio] Hello? McCarthy calling. McCarthy calling. Hello?
Bill Summers : Any luck, Mac?
James McCarthy : Nah, I can't even scare up a news broadcast.
Bill Summers : Where do you think we are?
James McCarthy : Search me. We lost the beam hours ago. Probably somewhere between Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Jeff : Is it that bad?
James McCarthy : It ain't good.
Jeff : Uh-oh. I knowed I wasn't cut out to be no blackbird.
Bill Summers : Try to contact them again, Mac.
James McCarthy : [into radio] Hello, McCarthy calling. Plane C-1-0-8 calling.
[hears over radio, "Absicht: ein punkt ein-und-zwanzig."]
James McCarthy : That's a new lingo to me, I don't understand it.
Bill Summers : Think we're near a radio station?
James McCarthy : The way it's coming in, we must be right over their transmitter!
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[as Bill and Mac venture into a strange, foreboding house]
Jeff : I'm gonna stay right here until I change my mind.
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Dr. Miklos Sangre : Visitors are rare in this house.
Bill Summers : [making introductions] I'm Bill Summers. This is Mr. McCarthy.
James McCarthy : Glad to know ya, doc.
Bill Summers : My valet, Jefferson.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson : Jefferson Jackson is my name. You see, I was named after my grand-pappy. He was the president of the Knights of the Pink Garters.
