The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Patrick Magee: Alfredo

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Quotes 

• Alfredo : You promised me entertainment, I never expected this. Have such eyes seen sin?

  Prospero : They will.

• Alfredo : [tied up and hanging from a chandelier in the costume of an ape]  I will set you to tortures unimagined!

  Hop Toad : You have already tortured... by your cruelty to my Esmeralda!

• Alfredo : Wherever did you find her?

  Prospero : Pretty toy isn't she?

  Alfredo : Delightful. I wonder...

  Prospero : Oh, I'm sure you do, Alfredo. I'm sure you wonder about every female in my household - and everyone with the appearance of innocence.

  Alfredo : You seem to take great pleasure in corrupting it.

• Alfredo : [to a party-goer]  Let me speak to you about the, uh, "anatomy of terror."

  Prospero : [Interrupting]  Terror? What would you know of terror, Alfredo? Your senses are much too blunt! What is "terror?" Come.

  [Leads the party into an adjoining chamber with a clock] 

  Prospero : Silence!

  [the clock ticks] 

  Prospero : Listen. Is it to awaken and hear the passing of time? Or is it the failing beat of your own heart? Or the footsteps of someone who, just a moment before, was in your room? But let us not dwell on terror. The knowledge of terror is vouchsafed only to the precious few.

• Prospero : On the Sabbath, at midnight, for your amusement there will be a masquerade. The wardrobes of the castle are yours to use. But I beg of you, even for the humor of it, do not wear red.

  [throws a chalice of wine on Alfredo's face] 

  Alfredo : You go too far. I am not without influence and power.

  Prospero : Against the Red Death? Yes. Yes, it came to the village. Even now, it lays waste to the countryside. So you can count yourselves fortunate that you are here in this castle - under the protection of Prince Prospero.

• Alfredo : If the wench were full-size, she'd drown us all in wine.

• Alfredo : Losing your sleep because of the tiny dancer?

  Hop Toad : She's nothing to me. I prefer a full-sized woman.

  Alfredo : Do you, now?

• Alfredo : Help. Help. Let me down, you fiendish dwarf. Let me down. Better let me down.