Escape from New York (1981)
Ernest Borgnine: Cabbie
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Quotes
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Snake Plissken : Where's the President?
Cabbie : The Duke got him. Everybody knows the Duke's got him. You don't have to put a gun to my head. I'll tell you.
Snake Plissken : Who's the Duke?
Cabbie : The Duke? The Duke of New York, A-Number-1, the Big Man, that's who!
Snake Plissken : I wanna meet this Duke.
Cabbie : You can't meet the Duke! Are you crazy? Nobody gets to meet the Duke. You meet him once and then you're dead!
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Cabbie : [Snake runs into Cabbie's taxi cab while being chased by the Crazies] Bad neighborhood, Snake! You don't want to be walking from the Bowery to 42nd Street at night. I've been driving a cab here for 30 years and I'm telling you: you don't walk around here at night! Yes, sir! Those Crazies'll kill you and strip you in ten seconds flat! Usually I'm not down around here myself, but I wanted to catch that show. That stuff is like gold around here, you know.
[Cabbie casually lights a Molotov cocktail and throws it at approaching Crazies, which explodes in front of them, stopping them... and Cabbie speeds away with Snake in his taxi]
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Cabbie : Brain? Brain, I brought somebody to see you.
Snake Plissken : [recognizes Brain] Harold Helman...
Brain : Snake?
Maggie : [curious] Harold?
Snake Plissken : How you been, Harold? It's been a long time.
Maggie : You never told me you knew Snake Plissken, Brain.
Cabbie : Isn't that great? Hey, Brain, I could use some gas if you could spare some.
Snake Plissken : I'm glad you remember me. Yeah, a man should remember his past. Kansas City, four years ago, you ran out on me... You left me sittin' there.
Brain : You were late.
Snake Plissken : [bitterly] We were buddies, Harold. You, me, and Fresno Bob. You know what they did to Bob, huh?
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Cabbie : Hey. You're Snake Plissken, ain't you?
Snake Plissken : What do you want?
Cabbie : Nothing. I thought you were dead.
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Cabbie : Oh, that Brain, he's the greatest. Mr Fabulous! The Duke loves him.
Snake Plissken : Who's that?
Cabbie : That's Maggie. Brain's squeeze. The Duke gave her to Brain just to keep him happy. See what I mean, He-he.
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Cabbie : Don't cross the Duke. Everybody knows that.