Solomon and Sheba (1959)

Harry Andrews: Baltor

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• Baltor : I have come to ask your permission to arrange your immediate departure.

  Sheba : Yes. Let us go, quickly. There is no reason for us to remain now that I have accomplished my purpose.

  Baltor : Your Majesty should not reproach herself. It was nothing more than a sudden storm. It is not the first time lightning has dealt death, nor will it be the last.

  Sheba : Was it nothing more than a coincidence?

  Baltor : Surely, Your Majesty cannot believe the Israelites, that it was a sign of the anger and revenge of their god?

  Sheba : I no longer know what I do believe.

  Takyan : Majesty, you're overwrought.

  Baltor : Yes, the strain of the last few days has affected us all. But this is your hour of triumph. The Pharaoh will rejoice in your victory. Sheba can be proud of her queen.

  Sheba : I am very proud of myself. I have earned my reward from Egypt. We will have our port on the Red Sea. We will have more gold, more power, more everything. Because I have betrayed a great man who trusted me, who loved me beyond all else.

• Baltor : Solomon"s threat is not only his army, but his God.

  Sheba : His God? We have a hundred gods.

  Baltor : But there's this one God who teaches that all men are equal and none are slaves.

  Sheba : What a foolish idea. And yet, if that idea were to take hold of the people, the Queen of Sheba would soon come crashing down from her throne.

• Baltor : Our security is threatened. Almost fanatically they support their great King Solomon.

  Sheba : A dreamer. A man of peace.

  Baltor : But a man of ideas, and there's nothing more dangerous than a man with an idea.

• Baltor : Your Majesty will forgive me if I venture to touch upon her personal, private affairs.