The Crimson Pirate (1952)

Torin Thatcher: Humble Bellows

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Quotes 

• Humble Bellows : Meantime, we got regular pirate business to settle. We got the plank, the culprit and the verdict. All we need's a trial, an execution and a sentence.

  Slimy : He's guilty!

  Humble Bellows : So much for the trial. Now for execution.

• Vallo : You've sold me Humble Bellows - and to a king's flunky!

  Humble Bellows : Aye. 'Tis my modest opinion that no man can fly pirate colors who's not willing to sell his friend, his sweetheart, or his mother.

  Baron Jose Gruda : Well spoken, Mr. Bellows.

  Vallo : Foul spoken it is, Humble Bellows. You've turned your hand against your captain's back. Yellow was never a pirate's colour.

  Slimy : Nor rescuing a fair maiden a pirate caper.

• Humble Bellows : There goes a good pirate, Stub Ear, to sell his wares like a fish peddler. Meaning no disrespect to the skipper, of course.

  Stub Ear : And us, with a price on our heads, hove to in one of His Majesty's ports like sitting ducks.

  Poison Paul : But if the skipper pulls us through again, we'll be the ducks what laid the golden eggs.

  Humble Bellows : Ye be thinking of geese, if you'll pardon the correction, Poison Paul. Geese... on a wild goose chase.

• Humble Bellows : Be that bit of fluff El Libre?

  Vallo : That's the bit of fluff that's taking us to him.

• Humble Bellows : Thou hast a generous choice: the gallows, or the sea.

  Prof. Prudence : [walks to Vallo]  If it won't crowd you?

  Vallo : I'd rather you weren't coming, but I don't want to seem inhospitable.