Chuka (1967)

Rod Taylor: Chuka

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• Trent : Wake me up when it's time to die.

  Chuka : Are you scared of dyin', Lou?

  Trent : Not particularly. It just comes an inconvenient time.

• Sgt. Otto Hansbach : Where are you from?

  Chuka : Anywhere I happen to be.

• Helena Chavez : Tell me Señor, are you as bad as they say?

  Chuka : No man is as bad as they say, Señorita.

• Col. Stuart Valois : I've discovered, Mr. Chuka, that to a savage kindness means weakness. He'll despise you for it. The moment you turn your back, he'll put a knife in it. I offer you that piece of intelligence. It might save your life someday.

  Chuka : Colonel, they're awful hungry out there. I think they're mean. And unless you give them food or the rifles to hunt their own, they're gonna come in here and *take* it. That's a little piece of intelligence that might save *your* life sometime.

• Col. Stuart Valois : How many men have you killed?

  Chuka : I stopped counting at sixteen.

  Col. Stuart Valois : Were they fair fights? Mr. Chuka! Where they fair fights?

  Chuka : Fifteen were fair.

  Col. Stuart Valois : And what is fair to you, Mr. Chuka

  Chuka : They were facing me. They had a chance at me.

  Col. Stuart Valois : And the sixteenth?

  Chuka : I shot him in the back of the head. But like the doctor here, I can't prove that he stuck a knife in me and was stealing my horse.

• Veronica Kleits : You have become quite hard.

  Chuka : Since I didn't measure up to your standards in life, madame, I had to find a way to bring people down to mine.

  Veronica Kleits : With your gun, I hear, Senor Chuka.

  Chuka : With my gun, Senora Kleits