Dark of the Sun (1968)

Rod Taylor: Curry

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• Curry : The gun's Chinese Ruffo, paid for by Russian rubles. The steel probably came from a West German factory built by French francs. Then it was flown out here on a South African airline probably subsidized by The United States. I don't think he got very far.

• Doctor Wreid : You expect me to go on a mission for one lousy bottle of good scotch?

  Curry : No, no. No, twelve bottles.

  Doctor Wreid : Oh! Oh. My God, Curry, you've got a nerve. Coming to me here with all that dreadful acting, trying to bribe me with a case of scotch.

  Curry : A case of scotch and three days at $100 a day.

• Adams : For the people back home, Captain, is it true you mercenaries will do anything for money? How much do you make a month for killing people?

  Jansen : Lay off him, Ed.

  Adams : I don't like mercenaries.

  Curry : I tell you what I don't like. I don't like fat hacks who sit on their butts in bars waiting for trouble to start, so they can get it wrong when they write about it.

• Adams : A big ape, isn't he.

  Curry : He said you're a big ape.

  Sergeant Ruffo : Well, I guess if you think about it, he's right. I better get started. Gentlemen. Excuse me.

  Curry : Excuse us.

• Curry : You're kinda dangerous, aren't you?

  Sergeant Ruffo : I came down out of the trees by invitation and I'll kill anybody who tries to send me back up again. Russian, Chinese, English, Belgian, or United States. You take your pick.

• Curry : How come you don't hate whites?

  Sergeant Ruffo : Because, I'm good. I'm always good. Mostly because my Mama she hit me over the head when I wasn't.

• Curry : Sometimes I get the feeling you're the boss around here. Why is that?

  Sergeant Ruffo : Because I know what I'm doing here. To you this is just a big hunk of real estate called the Congo. To me, this is our Bunker Hill, our Storming of the Winter Palace.

• Curry : Put the swastika back on.

  Capt. Hansen : What?

  Curry : Put the swastika back on. You've earned it.

• Curry : If you want to get romantic, wait till the job's over and you're paid off. Let's go. Come on.

  Capt. Henlein : Don't cross swords with me Curry.

• Doctor Wreid : [Dr. Wreid is performing C-Section on a woman that has been in labor for three days at the Catholic mission]  I haven't finished yet. Sister, swab.

  Curry : We ah, we can't hang around.

  Doctor Wreid : I know you can't. I told myself you couldn't. An hour ago I asked the time. I still thought I could make it. I rushed it a bit. I made a mistake, a small one... took time. Two hours I allowed myself, two hou... Sister!... two hours... . Please, no more talk.

  Curry : The least I can do is to tell you, you haven't got a chance to stay alive.

  Doctor Wreid : Ah, you'll save yourself some money won't you? You won't have to pay me back for that case of Scotch.

  Curry : I give you two days. Two days at the most. It's not worth dying for Wreid.

  Doctor Wreid : Two good days... after all these years... that's quite a lot Curry, I wish you the same sometime. I'm going to stay.

  Curry : Goodbye Doc. Good luck.

  Doctor Wreid : Goodbye Curry.

  Claire : Doctor Wreid...?

  [he gives a knowing nod, she leaves with Curry] 

  Doctor Wreid : Sister!

• Curry : Just a bystander. Watching the natives and their colorful puberty rights. Well, that's sad, Curry. That's very, very sad.