13 Ghosts (1960)
Charles Herbert: Buck Zorba
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Quotes
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Buck Zorba : Elaine?
Elaine Zacharides : Yes, Buck?
Buck Zorba : You really are a witch, aren't you?
Elaine Zacharides : Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
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Buck Zorba : [making a birthday wish] I wish we owned our own house, and all our furniture that nobody could take away.
[wind blows through the windows and blows out the candles, somebody knocks at the door]
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Buck Zorba : [to Ben] There's a witch in the house. Ring the bell; she'll answer.
[Ben rings the bell, Medea answers]
Buck Zorba : What'd you do that for? You should've let the Witch answer it.
Medea Zorba : You need to stop calling her that or she'll cut your tongue out.
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Buck Zorba : That was Emilio.
Cyrus Zorba : Who?
Buck Zorba : Emilio! He killed his wife, his mother-in-law and his sister-in-law with a meat cleaver. Whack! Whack! Whack! You'd better stand over there
[points to wall]
Buck Zorba : .
Cyrus Zorba : Why?
Buck Zorba : He doesn't mess up the kitchen often, but when he does, WOW!
[meat cleaver hits the wall]
Buck Zorba : . Now Emilio is through.
Hilda Zorba : Now *I'm* through
[takes off apron and storms out of the kitchen]
Hilda Zorba : .
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Buck Zorba : [as Ben walks in the door] Ben, I found it!
[grabs the railing and shakes it to reveal the hidden area in the stairs]
Ben Rush : Good boy! Have you told anyone else about this?
Buck Zorba : Course not! Let's tell them now.
[Runs towards the dining room; Ben grabs his arm stopping him]
Buck Zorba : Ow! You're hurting!
Ben Rush : Sorry, Buck. We can't tell them yet.
Buck Zorba : But we're moving out tomorrow!
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Ben Rush : Are you all moved in?
Buck Zorba : There wasn't anything to move except us.
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Buck Zorba : There's furniture and books and most of it I haven't even seen yet.
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Buck Zorba : [after his father receives a telegram telling him to report to an attorney's office] You haven't done anything you could be arrested for, have you daddy?
Cyrus Zorba : No; at least not lately.
