Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Nestor Paiva: Captain Lucas

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• Lucas : I can tell you something about this place. The boys around here call it "The Black Lagoon" - a paradise. Only they say nobody has ever come back to prove it.

• Lucas : What kind of fishing is that? Who eats rocks?

  Carl Maia : I eat rocks, in a manner of speaking. I crush and look inside them and they tell me things.

  Lucas : What do they tell you?

  Carl Maia : How old they are.

• Lucas : It is impossible. But I, Lucas, will do it.

• Dr. Thompson : Demon, eh? Well, it's no more far-fetched than your gillman.

  Lucas : There are many strange legends in the Amazon. Even I, Lucas, have heard the legend of a man-fish.

• Mark Williams : We're staying until we get him.

  David Reed : Or until somebody else gets killed. No, we're not. Lucas, we're getting out of here as fast as we can.

  Lucas : Okay.

  Mark Williams : I'll make the decisions around here.

  Lucas : But you are wrong, Mr. Williams. Oh the water, the captain makes the decisions.

  [to David] 

  Lucas : We will do as you say.

  Mark Williams : You'll listen to me.

  Lucas : [sticks his knife up Mark's chin]  You wish to say something, mister? Huh?

• David Reed : It's the only way. We've to clear this inlet.

  Lucas : Hey, that fellow down there, you think he's a mosquito you can shoo away?

  David Reed : We got to take that chance.

  Kay Lawrence : Oh, sure. What's an expedition without two martyrs at least!

  David Reed : Hey, Kay, I'm doing the only thing we can do. If we all just sit here, we'll - we'll all end up as Mark did.