Johnny Belinda (1948)

Charles Bickford: Black MacDonald

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• Dr. Robert Richardson : Mac, they're saying in the village that I'm Johnny's father. It's believable. When they don't know the answer, they make up one. I've been around this place a lot - at all hours. I've been thinking about this for a long time. I've even thought of your leaving here. But that wouldn't prove anything, giving up something you've worked for all your life. I know of only one solution: for me to marry Belinda. That would *really* give them something to talk about. And pretty soon the gossip would die down, for good.

  Black MacDonald : You're bein' generous, but it won't do. You see, she kind of feels things, and people, with her insights. You don't love her. You only feel a kind of pity for her. You'd hurt her worse than if you hated her.

  Dr. Robert Richardson : You make me feel pretty cheap. For a while there I guess I was thinking I was... quite a guy.

  Black MacDonald : You're one of the best I've run across. Sometimes you can be *too* good - harm others while doin' it.

• Black MacDonald : The poorer the crops, the peskier the crows.

• Locky McCormick : Where are you going?

  Black MacDonald : With you.

  Locky McCormick : Well, where to?

  Black MacDonald : Wherever you're going.

  Locky McCormick : Why?

  Black MacDonald : To tell them.

  Locky McCormick : To tell them what?

  Black MacDonald : What ya' done. So they'll know how low a man can get.

  Locky McCormick : You'll tell them nothing.

  [throws him to the ground]