Bhowani Junction (1956)

Ava Gardner: Victoria Jones

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• Victoria Jones : Why should you stand by me? You're not an Anglo-Indian?

  Col. Rodney Savage : You're an officer under my command.

  Victoria Jones : Say, eh, I, all these weeks I've known you, this is the first time I've realized there's a human being inside you somewhere.

  Col. Rodney Savage : Oh, he's still there, is he? Good. Then, there's hope for us all.

• Ranjit Kasel : Why did he call you Miss Darkie?

  Victoria Jones : To hurt.

  Ranjit Kasel : I don't always understand Col. Savage.

  Victoria Jones : I wish I didn't always understand him.

  Ranjit Kasel : But, I want to be able to share these things with you, Victoria.

  Victoria Jones : Then listen: There was a young lady named Starkey, who got herself hitched to a darkie. The results of her sins, was an eightsome of twins: 2 black, 2 white and 4 khaki.

• Patrick Taylor : Where's your hat?

  Victoria Jones : I never wear it, unless I have to.

  Patrick Taylor : But, the sun - it will get you all brown at this time of day.

  Victoria Jones : It's not the sun that makes us brown, now, is it.

• Victoria Jones : Can't you understand anything? Can't you understand how they feel? Or, me? I came back from Delhi ready to love you and I found you were all the things I don't want to be. When I'm happy, you spoil it. When I'm in trouble, you don't notice it. When I want you to do something, you won't do it. When I ask you not to do something...

  Patrick Taylor : But, but...

  Victoria Jones : Don't but me, you fool! You're a snob and you are self-satisfying! And you're, you're a ratty Chi-Chi! And you make me behave like a Chi-Chi too! Now, go away! I don't ever want to see you again except on duty!

• Patrick Taylor : Oh Colonel, jolly good idea, that of yours, you know, what your men did to those Wogs lying on the railway line!

  Col. Rodney Savage : Would you mind not trying to drag me into your mating squabbles.

  [Col. exits] 

  Patrick Taylor : See, it's like that, eh, all open and above board...

  Victoria Jones : Ranjit, would you find a table for us and hold it please.

  [Ranjit exits] 

  Patrick Taylor : Why don't you go to a Wog cinema. That's were you belong, isn't it? Holding hands and chewing betel nuts with your black boyfriend!

  Victoria Jones : Don't you say that about Ranjit, to me, or to anybody else!

  Patrick Taylor : Then, keep him out of here! This is for Europeans!

• Victoria Jones : I don't know what you mean, Sir.

  Col. Rodney Savage : Stop calling me Sir. You're not a chambermaid, are you?

• Col. Rodney Savage : It's about time the Lord started making all human beings the same on the outside as well as the same on the inside.

  Victoria Jones : They'd only change it back again, the moment his back was turned.

  Col. Rodney Savage : I wish I could quarrel with that.