Memorable quotes for
The Crimson Pirate (1952)

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Vallo: Why did you bolt your cabin door last night?
Consuelo: If you knew it was bolted you must have tried it. If you tried it, you know why it was bolted.

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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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Vallo: Gather round, lads and lasses, gather round.

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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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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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Humble Bellows: Meantime, we got regular pirate business to settle. We got the plank, the culprit and the verdict. All we need's a trial, an execution and a sentence.
Slimy: He's guilty!
Humble Bellows: So much for the trial. Now for execution.

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Humble Bellows: There goes a good pirate, Stub Ear, to sell his wares like a fish peddler. Meaning no disrespect to the skipper, of course.
Stub Ear: And us, with a price on our heads, hove to in one of His Majesty's ports like sitting ducks.
Poison Paul: But if the skipper pulls us through again, we'll be the ducks what laid the golden eggs.
Humble Bellows: Ye be thinking of geese, if you'll pardon the correction, Poison Paul. Geese... on a wild goose chase.

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Pablo Murphy: This one
[indicates Ojo]
Pablo Murphy: can't talk and this one
[points at Vallo]
Pablo Murphy: can't keep quiet.

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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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Consuelo: You are a fighter. Fight with us. Fight for something decent.
Vallo: Not I. All my life I've watched injustice and dishonesty fly the flag of decency. I don't trust it.

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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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