The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Saeed Jaffrey: Billy Fish
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Quotes
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Peachy Carnehan : [When being chased by a large angry mob] Billy Fish, mount the mule and ride! There's a chance you'll make it!
Billy Fish : Gurkha foot soldier, not cavalry.
[Billy salutes Peachy and Danny]
Billy Fish : Rifleman Majendra Bahadur Gurung wishing you many good lucks!
[Billy draws his kukri and charges the mob single-handedly]
Billy Fish : Ayo Gorkhali!
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Billy Fish : He wants to know if you are gods.
Peachy Carnehan : Not gods - Englishmen. The next best thing.
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Danny : You mean he's piled up a fortune of sixty cows out of her infidelities?
Billy Fish : And thirty-two goats.
Danny : She ain't a wife, she's a going concern!
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[speaking to Billy Fish in Kafiri]
Billy Fish : Ootah say take your pick. He have twenty three daughters.
Danny : Those are his daughters? Why the dirty old beggar!
Peachy Carnehan : Now, now Danny. Different countries, different ways. He's only being hospitable according to his lights. Billy, tell him one's as pretty as the next and we cannot choose.
[Billy translates; Ootah replies in Kafiri]
Billy Fish : Ootah say he also have thirty-two sons if you are liking boys.
Peachy Carnehan : [angrily] Tell him he makes my gorge rise; tell him!
Danny : Now Peachy, different countries, different ways. Tell Ootah we have vowed not to take a woman until all his enemies are vanquished.
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Peachy Carnehan : What's he saying, Billy?
Billy Fish : Danny's bleeding. They know! He says not god, not devil, but man!
Peachy Carnehan : [approaches Danny] They've twigged it, Danny. You've had it! The jig's up!
Daniel Dravot : [grabs arrow and raises hand in proclamation] I, Sikander -
Peachy Carnehan : [cuts off Danny] For God's sake!
Peachy Carnehan : [grabs Danny and leads him down the temple stairs] We've got to brass it out, Danny. Danny, brass it out!
Peachy Carnehan : [Danny, Peachy and Billy Fish try to escape the mob with heads held high] Bags of swank!
Daniel Dravot : [Danny, Peachy and Billy Fish on the run] We'll get your riflemen, Peachy, and we'll come back and slaughter the dogs! A drenching in their own blood we'll give them! Riflemen, prepare to advance!
Peachy Carnehan : [grabs rifles] Too many for that, Danny. Retire in sections!
Daniel Dravot : Retire? Retire be damned!
Peachy Carnehan : We've gotta make a run for it!
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Billy Fish : I oft times tell Ootah about Englishmens. How they give names to dogs and take off hats to womans, and march into battle, left - right, left -right with rifles on their shoulders.
Daniel Dravot : Bringing enlightenment to the darker regions of the Earth.
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Peachy Carnehan : Do they always use such a big ball?
Billy Fish : Depend on size of man's head. Big head, big ball, small head, small ball. That Bashki man. Oh big damn head.
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Billy Fish : Enemies all around. The Bashkari are the worst. Whole town comes out, and pisses downstream when we go bathing.
Peachy Carnehan : Shocking!