Mandingo (1975)

James Mason: Warren Maxwell

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• Warren Maxwell : Forget about my rheumatis! Don't do this! Don't do that! It gits worse, whatever I do or quit doin'!

  Brownlee : Sleepin' with one of them naked, Mexican dogs - they say, dreams the rheumatis right out of the man into the dog.

  Warren Maxwell : Yes?

  Doc Redfield : A nigger's just as good. One of them will dream off the rheumatis as good as any naked dog. Of course, you'll have to have that nigger sort of curl up around your feet and then you got to *press* hard and kindly force the rheumatis right out in the soles.

  Warren Maxwell : That's right interestin'.

• Warren Maxwell : Whup him fierce. Hammond, you got to cut deep. Cause a nigger don't feel physical punishment, as soon, as a white man.

• Warren Maxwell : It's time for us to be thinkin' of an heir for Falconhurst, You need a wife lady to give you a son with human blood. Not them suckers or yours from wenches.

  Hammond Maxwell : I wouldn't know what to do! Not with no white lady. And you can't have no more wenches if'n you marry.

  Warren Maxwell : Of course, you have 'em jes the same. You doesn't talk about 'em in front of your wife. But, she knows you have 'em. She wants you to have 'em. Saves her from havin' to submit. When she do submit, though, you keep on yer shirt and draws. Plagues a white lady almost to death to see a man naked!

  Hammond Maxwell : Not in New Orleans. There are white ladies there, I hear, that strip it all off. Every bit.

• Lucrezia Borgia : That white lady know what she crave.

  Warren Maxwell : Miss Blanche, never craved that black ape!

  Lucrezia Borgia : Then what for she send for him the second and third time?

• Brownlee : [to a slave]  Shut down your pants. Bend over.

  Warren Maxwell : You're wastin' your time. He ain't got hemorrhoids.

• Brownlee : You alter some of 'em?

  Warren Maxwell : My Pa never altered a nigger. No... On this planation, there's no altered horse, no nigger.

• Doc Redfield : Is she a virgin?

  Hammond Maxwell : Well, I reckon. You can't ever be sure about a black wench.

  Doc Redfield : Lucy?

  Lucy : She pure. I be savin' 'er like Master Maxwell tell me.

  Warren Maxwell : She a Mandingo wench. They don't let just any buck git to her.

• Warren Maxwell : Ol' Doc Redfield, nothin' he don't know about nigger nature.

• Warren Maxwell : Master's duty to pleasure the wench's first time, you know that.

• Warren Maxwell : Tell how many suckers you brung us, Lucrezia Borgia.

  Lucrezia Borgia : Twenty-four, massa.

• Brownlee : Do you have any religion for yer niggers, Mr. Maxwell?

  Warren Maxwell : Hell no! The more religion they's gits, the ornerier they gits. Harder to drive.

• Doc Redfield : Don't worry none about they immortal souls?

  Warren Maxwell : They ain't got no immortal souls. They gits to thinkin' they has souls, they gits to thinkin' theys as good as white folk. Mem, you reckon you got a soul?

  Agamemnon : Why, a lazy, no account, stupid, god forsaken nigger like me, can't have a soul, massa.

• Warren Maxwell : Damn, sons-of-bitches! Slavery was ordained by God, by God, his self. Niggers are right happy eatin', workin', fornicatin'! Abolitionist! Cranks and loonies!

• Warren Maxwell : You know what old Sam Tufts do with readin' niggers? Puts out an eye! Cures 'em good. One eye! Not two. Blind is no damn use; but, one eyes work as hard, don't give no more trouble.

  Hammond Maxwell : No, Papa, no. I'll jes whup him a bit, that's all.

  Warren Maxwell : Taint enough.

  Hammond Maxwell : That's all, Papa.

• Hammond Maxwell : She's gonna be my bed wench.

  Warren Maxwell : Blanche ain't gonna like that.

  Hammond Maxwell : Well, now, you said yourself, white ladies don't like to much pesterin'.

  Warren Maxwell : White ladies don't like her husband gettin' tender with a wench, neither.

• Hammond Maxwell : The papers say this Mede's brother of Big Pearls. Lucy's his Mom.

  Warren Maxwell : He don't know nothin'. Mede was a sucker when he was sold.

  Hammond Maxwell : Papa, that'll be incest.

  Warren Maxwell : Works somethin' with animals. Works fine with niggers.

  Hammond Maxwell : Yeah, whatcha gonna do then when the sucker turn out to be some kind of monster?

  Warren Maxwell : Snuff it out.

• Blanche Maxwell : It's Hammond's fault.

  Warren Maxwell : I don't believe Hammond drank those Toddies you so fond of.

  Blanche Maxwell : No, he prefer the wenches.

  Warren Maxwell : A man craves to please his wife - time to time.

  Blanche Maxwell : They do dirty things! They ain't got no shame!

  Warren Maxwell : Then you are gonna do dirty things! Just so you get him in your bed and keep him there!

• Warren Maxwell : You tell Big Pearl to give him lots of milk. The way she's titted out, she's got enough milk for - a dozen suckers.

• Brownlee : [opening line]  How much for this wench and sucker?

  Warren Maxwell : She ought to be worth six hundred and fifty.

  Brownlee : That's too much. I can't get more than seven for 'em in New Orleans.