The Ten Commandments (1956)

Gordon Mitchell: Egyptian Guard

Quotes 

• Lilia : Joshua!

  Joshua : Run, Lilia, run! The way is clear. The master builder will not follow.

  Baka : Neither will you, stonecutter.

  [Joshua tried to escape, running backwards, but was captured by Baka's guards] 

  Baka : Bind him between the columns! See that his arms are tightly stretched!

  Egyptian guard : He'll cut him to pieces.

  Baka : Now go after the girl. Don't come back without her.

  Egyptian guard : We'll find her.

  Baka : You foolish, stupid man. I would have kept her only a short while. She would have returned to you, shall we say, more worthy. Now to whom shall I return Lilia? You will not be there, Joshua.

  [saying this, Baka starts to lash Joshua] 

  Baka : You've seen me drive my chariot. I can flick a fly from my horse's ear without breaking the rhythm of his stride. You've seen me use my whip.

  [Baka lashed Joshua again] 

  Baka : You make no outcry, Joshua, but you will. You will cry for the mercy of death.

  Joshua : One day you will listen to the cry of slaves.

  Baka : This is not that day, Joshua.

  [Baka lashed another stripe on Joshua] 

  Baka : You hold your tongue almost as well as I hold my temper. It's a pity to kill so strong a stonecutter.

  Moses : [Moses caught Baka's whip, pulled it, and turned Baka around]  Death will bring death, Baka!

  Baka : Who are you?

  Moses : One who asks what right you have to kill a slave.

  Baka : The right of a master to kill you or any slave.

  Moses : Then kill me, master butcher!

  [Moses then caught and used Baka's whip, choking Baka to death] 

  Baka : Moses!

  [Baka's last line] 

• Moses : You know it is death to strike an Egyptian?

  Joshua : I know it.

  Moses : Yet you struck him. Why?

  Joshua : To save the old woman.

  Moses : What is she to you?

  Joshua : An old woman.

  [Joshua was defending his Hebrew race] 

  Egyptian guard : Lord Prince, send him to his death!

  Moses : The man has courage. You do not speak like a slave.

  Joshua : God made men. Men made slaves.

  Moses : Which god?

  Joshua : The God of Abraham. The Almighty God!

  Moses : If your God is Almighty, why does He leave you in bondage?

  Joshua : He will choose the hour of our freedom and the man who will deliver us!