Song of the South (1946)

Bobby Driscoll: Johnny

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Quotes 

• Johnny : I wish I had a Laughing Place.

  Ginny : Me, too.

  Uncle Remus : What makes you think you ain't? Course you got a Laughing Place.

  Johnny : Really, Uncle Remus?

  Ginny : Really?

  Uncle Remus : Everybody's got one. The trouble is, most folks won't take time to go look for it.

  Johnny , Ginny : Where's mine?

  Uncle Remus : Well, now, that I can't exactly say. 'Cause where 'tis for one mightn't be where 'tis for another.

  Johnny : Come on, Ginny. Let's start looking.

• Johnny : Where's Brer Rabbit's Briar Patch?

  Uncle Remus : Where? Well, now, let me see. That I can't exactly say, 'cause I ain't been keeping close track as I used to.

• [the Favers brothers confront Johnny and Toby] 

  Jake Favers : Just 'cause ol' Remus take your side don't mean we ain't gonna get Teenchy. You wait and see.

  Joe Favers : We're gonna tell on you.

  Jake Favers : Yeah, gonna tell Tempy, or maybe your grandma. Or maybe even your ma.

  Johnny : [remembering the Tar Baby story of reverse psychology]  Go ahead, I don't care. You can tell Aunt Tempy and you can tell Grandma. You can even tell my mama. But whatever you do, don't tell your ma.

  Jake Favers : [suspiciously]  Why not?

  Johnny : Just don't you tell her, that's all. If you do, it'll be awful.

  [Grinning, the Favers boys leave] 

  Toby : [to Johnny]  Ain't that what Brer Rabbit did to Brer Fox?

  Johnny : [whispering]  Shhh! Being little and without much strength, we're supposed to use our heads instead of our foots.

• Toby : Tell us another one, Uncle Remus.

  Johnny : The one you told Daddy about Brer Frog havin' a tail.

  Uncle Remus : And losin' it?

  Johnny : That's it.

  Uncle Remus : Well, then, how can there be a tale...

  Johnny , Uncle Remus : [in unison]  ... when there ain't no ta...

  Uncle Remus : [chuckles]  I could tell ya, but that's another tale for another day.

• Toby : [holding up one finger]  Sure is lucky I was with you.

  Johnny : What's that for?

  Toby : That's whether the wind blowing good or bad. And if it's blowing towards the bull, That ain't good because then he smell you coming and catch you on his horns sure.

  [Johnny holds up one finger like Toby] 

  Toby : The best way is to, don't cut across there at all.

• Uncle Remus : Appears to me like you's figuring on going someplace.

  Johnny : I am, and nobody's gonna stop me.

  Uncle Remus : Well, now, if that don't bang my time. You know, I was just figurin' on somethin' like that myself. How'd you like ol' Uncle Remus to go along with you?

  [They start to go off together] 

  Uncle Remus : Now, let's see now. Where is we figuring on going? How can we be going someplace if we don't know where we's going?

  Johnny : I'm going to Atlanta.

  Uncle Remus : Hmm, powerful long walk to Atlanta. Is you brung some grub?

  Johnny : No.

  Uncle Remus : Well, now... if we ain't got no grub, we sure can't get very far.

• [Johnny and his parents and Aunt Tempy are going to Johnny's grandmother's plantation for a visit] 

  Johnny : [referring to his grandmother]  Why don't she come to see us, like she did last spring?

  Sally : Well, because it... I thought you'd enjoy seeing the plantation.

  Johnny : Is Grandma mad at us?

  Sally : But of course not, Johnny. Whatever gave you that idea?

  Johnny : Well, Georgie says everybody's mad at what Daddy writes in the newspaper.

• Johnny : [on his sick bed from being struck by the bull]  Uncle Remus... Come back, Uncle Remus... Come back...