Kona Coast (1968)

Richard Boone: Capt. Sam Moran

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• Capt. Sam Moran : Hey, Kimo, if I was lookin' for a young girl, maybe a party, somethin' goin' on from last night, where would I look?

  Kimo : Sure, one bugger your age still runnin' up the beach lookin' for wahines.

• Kunewa : Sam, was this girl on the spike?

  Capt. Sam Moran : What?

  Kunewa : I asked if she was on junk. She's got chicken tracks on both arms.

• Capt. Sam Moran : The other boys know anything?

  Kimo : Sam, if I don't know it, it ain't worth knowing.

• Capt. Sam Moran : I went over to the kid and I said, "I'm Sam Moran and I guess we oughta talk." She looked up at me, and she said, "So, you're Sam Moran?" And she spit right in my face. And after that, the relationship deteriorated.

• Capt. Sam Moran : How do you feel?

  Charlie Lightfoot : I'm gonna die when I get home, but I feel pretty good.

• Capt. Sam Moran : A cute little kid came in there to audition for a job in that pigpen. And she picked on me to make a pass at her. The Madam leaned over and whispered in my ear, "More better you don't touch that kind." I looked at her. She said, "That''s your daughter, haole."

• Akamai : You got a ticket for drivin' boats?

  Capt. Sam Moran : Any ocean, any time.

• Kittibelle Lightfoot : I knew if I waited around here long enough, I'd find you.

  Capt. Sam Moran : You found me.

• Capt. Sam Moran : It's too small to be a cargo ship, it's too clumsy to fish with, and the passenger accommodations would discourage an Arab camel driver.

• Capt. Sam Moran : If I wanted a bag full of other people's troubles, I'd go to the mainland!

• Capt. Sam Moran : Kittibelle, I've got business in Honolulu.

  Kittibelle Lightfoot : You've got unfinished business here.

• Capt. Sam Moran : Welcome, welcome, thrice welcome.

• Capt. Sam Moran : I told you before, I am a vulgar specimen! And you are a sad, useless, nothing broad!

• Mim Lowry : Is there a Mrs. Moran around and about?

  Capt. Sam Moran : Well, for a girl who plays it loose, you're talking pretty square.

  Mim Lowry : Okay. So I swing. But there's something I'm trying to make my mind up about, so - so answer.

• Capt. Sam Moran : [singing drunkenly]  Waltzin' Matilda, Waltzin' Matilda, You''ll come a-waltzin', Matilda, with me, And his ghost may be heard, As you walk beside the billabong, You'll come a-waltzin', Matilda, with..

  [speaking drunkenly] 

  Capt. Sam Moran : Pero nadie quiera, Mirar tus ojos, Porque, te has muerto, Para siempre.

  Melissa Hyde : Translation please?

  Capt. Sam Moran : But no one will look into your eyes, Because you have died forever. Epitaph For A Lost Love. Very loose translation of Federico García Lorca.

  Melissa Hyde : I don't know what lost love you're rhyming to, but I haven't died yet.

  [sighs] 

  Melissa Hyde : Not quite yet.

• Capt. Sam Moran : You! You are kumu. You're pesky! But kumu.

  Melissa Hyde : What does that mean?

  Capt. Sam Moran : Kumu?

  Melissa Hyde : Well, when they call a woman that?

  Capt. Sam Moran : They?

  Melissa Hyde : When a man says that to a woman, what does it mean?

  Capt. Sam Moran : When I say that to a woman, it means I think she is some hunk of woman. Kumu.

  Melissa Hyde : But pesky. Yes.

• Capt. Sam Moran : I'm Sam Moran. And what I am says I don't like people that put lumps on my head, I don't like people that burn my boat, I don't like people pushin' junk on kids for fun, and most of all, I don't like those kids dyin'. What I am says I will look for those people as long as I am able. And when and if I find them, I will hurt them!

• Mim Lowry : I was supposed to bring you to that luau. That was the deal for 500 bucks.

  Capt. Sam Moran : The things a girl has to do these days to make some bread.

• Capt. Sam Moran : Well, there you have it. I have a great talent for destruction.