White Zombie (1932)

Joseph Cawthorn: Dr. Bruner

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• [last lines] 

  Neil Parker : Madeline, my darling...

  Madeline : Neil, I... I dreamed.

  Dr. Bruner : Excuse me, please. Have you got a match?

• Dr. Bruner : Your driver believed he saw dead men... walking.

• Neil Parker : Not dead? Are you mad? I saw her die. The doctor signed the certificate. I saw them bury her.

  Dr. Bruner : Now wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm not mad. But I've lived in these islands for a good many years. And I've seen things with my eyes that made me think I was crazy. There's superstition in Haiti that the natives brought here from Africa. Some can be traced back as far as ancient Egypt. And beyong that yet in the countries that was old when Egypt was young.

• Dr. Bruner : Before we get through with this thing we may uncover sins that even the devil would be ashamed of.

• Pierre - Witch Doctor : Turn back, before it is too late.

  Dr. Bruner : Aw, no. I've come to far to turn back now.

  Pierre - Witch Doctor : I'm too old to go all this way with you.

  Dr. Bruner : Well, listen, can't you get somebody to go with us?

  Pierre - Witch Doctor : My people, all afraid of de mountain.

  Dr. Bruner : Why?

  Pierre - Witch Doctor : Because it is called the land of the living dead!

  Dr. Bruner : Well, have you ever been there?

  Pierre - Witch Doctor : I am de only man that ever came from der a-live. Der is an an evil spirt man dat is called: Murder!

• Dr. Bruner : Say, there's been *lots* of people that's been pronounced dead that came alive again and lived for years! Now, if.. if Nature can play pranks like that, why isn't it possible to play pranks with Nature?

• Dr. Bruner : Your driver believed he saw dead men... walking. He didn't. What he saw was men alive in everything but "this" and "this."

  [indicates his head, then his heart] 

• Dr. Bruner : If I could get my hands on the devil that's responsible for this, I'll make him such an example that every witch doctor in Haiti would be shaking in his sandals.

  Neil Parker : [showing frustration]  But we can't do this alone. Can't the authorities help?

  Dr. Bruner : [chuckles deriseively]  "The authorities." Neil, my boy, you don't know these islands. The native authorities are *afraid* to meddle. I am not. I've got friends among the natives. They'll tell me things that no gendarme could ever get out of them. Because I am a preacher, they think I am a magician. Before we get through with this thing, we may uncover sins that even the Devil would be ashamed of.