Chuka (1967)

John Mills: Col. Stuart Valois

Quotes 

• Col. Stuart Valois : It will be wonderful to dine instead of to feed. It seems to be the routine when men in a country like this are isolated. I miss the conversation... the eloquence of dining in mixed company.

• Col. Stuart Valois : I've discovered, Mr. Chuka, that to a savage kindness means weakness. He'll despise you for it. The moment you turn your back, he'll put a knife in it. I offer you that piece of intelligence. It might save your life someday.

  Chuka : Colonel, they're awful hungry out there. I think they're mean. And unless you give them food or the rifles to hunt their own, they're gonna come in here and *take* it. That's a little piece of intelligence that might save *your* life sometime.

• Col. Stuart Valois : How many men have you killed?

  Chuka : I stopped counting at sixteen.

  Col. Stuart Valois : Were they fair fights? Mr. Chuka! Where they fair fights?

  Chuka : Fifteen were fair.

  Col. Stuart Valois : And what is fair to you, Mr. Chuka

  Chuka : They were facing me. They had a chance at me.

  Col. Stuart Valois : And the sixteenth?

  Chuka : I shot him in the back of the head. But like the doctor here, I can't prove that he stuck a knife in me and was stealing my horse.

• Col. Stuart Valois : Please don't allow the actions and therefore the discipline of one man to disturb you.

  Veronica Kleits : In a lifetime, Colonel Valois, I have learned that one man is the image of all men.

• Col. Stuart Valois : You reek of whiskey, Trent! Not exactly the quality one looks for in a Chief Scout.