The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Burt Lancaster: Capt. Vallo (The Crimson Pirate)
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Quotes
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Baron Jose Gruda : You may be over-confident, Captain Vallo. There are 200 of the King's marines aboard this vessel.
Vallo : And only 20 pirates. That puts the odds slightly in my favour. Better surrender the ship.
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Vallo : [narrating] Remember, in a pirate ship, in pirate waters, in a pirate world, ask no questions. Believe only what you see. No, believe half of what you see.
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Vallo : You've sold me Humble Bellows - and to a king's flunky!
Humble Bellows : Aye. 'Tis my modest opinion that no man can fly pirate colors who's not willing to sell his friend, his sweetheart, or his mother.
Baron Jose Gruda : Well spoken, Mr. Bellows.
Vallo : Foul spoken it is, Humble Bellows. You've turned your hand against your captain's back. Yellow was never a pirate's colour.
Slimy : Nor rescuing a fair maiden a pirate caper.
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Baron Jose Gruda : Bored?
La Signorita : If only there were something to break the monotony of this voyage.
Vallo : [drops in] Hands aloft, please.
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rebel : You killed Baron Gruda?
Vallo : If I did a thing like that, you wouldn't need the guns I want to sell you. I'm a pirate, mate, not a dog killer!
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Humble Bellows : Be that bit of fluff El Libre?
Vallo : That's the bit of fluff that's taking us to him.
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Humble Bellows : Thou hast a generous choice: the gallows, or the sea.
Prof. Prudence : [walks to Vallo] If it won't crowd you?
Vallo : I'd rather you weren't coming, but I don't want to seem inhospitable.
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Vallo : Gather round, lads and lasses, gather round.