Mandingo (1975)

Perry King: Hammond Maxwell

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• Hammond Maxwell : That's what I come here for, Sir. You got an ol' Mandingo buck and my Papa craves you to borrow him that buck to breed them two wenches.

• Blanche Maxwell : Hammond, the reason, the reason I took that Toddy was to get up the courage to say to you what I'm a sayin', what I'm a feelin'. You ain't touched me. You want to be with me? Huh? Will you touch me? I want you to touch me. Please, Hammond, I need you. Huh? Touch me! Oh, please touch me!

  Hammond Maxwell : [pushes Blanche away]  You sure are a strange kind of white lady.

• Warren Maxwell : It's time for us to be thinkin' of an heir for Falconhurst, You need a wife lady to give you a son with human blood. Not them suckers or yours from wenches.

  Hammond Maxwell : I wouldn't know what to do! Not with no white lady. And you can't have no more wenches if'n you marry.

  Warren Maxwell : Of course, you have 'em jes the same. You doesn't talk about 'em in front of your wife. But, she knows you have 'em. She wants you to have 'em. Saves her from havin' to submit. When she do submit, though, you keep on yer shirt and draws. Plagues a white lady almost to death to see a man naked!

  Hammond Maxwell : Not in New Orleans. There are white ladies there, I hear, that strip it all off. Every bit.

• Hammond Maxwell : You mean that white lady will pleasure with that nigger?

  Brownlee : That's a German widow and German ladies can never get pleasure enough.

• Hammond Maxwell : I'm thinkin', I'm wonderin', what man you had before me?

  Blanche Maxwell : Hammond! Where did you get that zany notion from?

  Hammond Maxwell : You thinkin' I don't know a virgin when I sleeps with one and pleasures?

  Blanche Maxwell : I was too a virgin!

  Hammond Maxwell : You was once; but, not last night.

  Blanche Maxwell : Oh, oh, how can you think such a thing! There was nobody! I was pure! Till you!

  Hammond Maxwell : You might as well tell me who he is. I'll kill the son-of-a-bitch! Now, you tell me who pleasured you before me!

  Blanche Maxwell : You, you're accusin' me! You're accusin' me of somethin' I never done! I never done it! I never, never, never done it! I never, never done it!

• Doc Redfield : Is she a virgin?

  Hammond Maxwell : Well, I reckon. You can't ever be sure about a black wench.

  Doc Redfield : Lucy?

  Lucy : She pure. I be savin' 'er like Master Maxwell tell me.

  Warren Maxwell : She a Mandingo wench. They don't let just any buck git to her.

• Warren Maxwell : You know what old Sam Tufts do with readin' niggers? Puts out an eye! Cures 'em good. One eye! Not two. Blind is no damn use; but, one eyes work as hard, don't give no more trouble.

  Hammond Maxwell : No, Papa, no. I'll jes whup him a bit, that's all.

  Warren Maxwell : Taint enough.

  Hammond Maxwell : That's all, Papa.

• Dite : Master, I knocked up.

  Hammond Maxwell : Oh, I been lookin' for that.

  Dite : Master, when my sucker come, can'ts I keep it?

  Hammond Maxwell : It's for your own good, Dite. So's you won't feel bad if we go to sell it.

• Hammond Maxwell : Raise your head. Raise your head. Now you're lookin' away from me. I can't see ya. Put your eyes on me. Look at me straight. Into my eyes.

  Ellen : I can't, Master.

  Hammond Maxwell : I craves you to do it, Ellen.

  Ellen : Niggers don't...

  Hammond Maxwell : Don't what? Look a white man in the eyes? If'n you're told to do it. If asked to do it, you can do it. Ellen. Don't you be a-feared. If you don't like me, you don't have to stay.

  Ellen : I like you, Sir. I want to please you.

• Prostitute : I've been servin' and pleasurin' old men all day. But, I've been watchin' your baby face ever since you came in, plannin' how I was gonna get to you.

  Hammond Maxwell : I ain't feelin' good, lady,

  Prostitute : Oh, well, I can fix that, honey. All over.

  Brownlee : Hey, you do that all over stuff?

  Prostitute : For somebody like him, mmmm.

  Hammond Maxwell : I reckon not, lady. I'm on my honeymoon.

  Prostitute : Oh, well that's when a gentleman needs good lovin' the most!

  Brownlee : He's got the prettiest little piece for a bride back at the hotel, just waitin' there, layin' there!

  Prostitute : Oh, but I can show him things his bride don't dream and they do it on Mars where they got creatures with - six arms and four mouths.

• Blanche Maxwell : Who's the wench?

  Hammond Maxwell : A slave I bought - sometime back.

  Blanche Maxwell : She for the Mandingo?

  Hammond Maxwell : She ain't.

• Hammond Maxwell : She's gonna be my bed wench.

  Warren Maxwell : Blanche ain't gonna like that.

  Hammond Maxwell : Well, now, you said yourself, white ladies don't like to much pesterin'.

  Warren Maxwell : White ladies don't like her husband gettin' tender with a wench, neither.

• Hammond Maxwell : The papers say this Mede's brother of Big Pearls. Lucy's his Mom.

  Warren Maxwell : He don't know nothin'. Mede was a sucker when he was sold.

  Hammond Maxwell : Papa, that'll be incest.

  Warren Maxwell : Works somethin' with animals. Works fine with niggers.

  Hammond Maxwell : Yeah, whatcha gonna do then when the sucker turn out to be some kind of monster?

  Warren Maxwell : Snuff it out.

• Ellen : Lucrezia Borgia say I knocked. She say I been missin' my time a month.

  Hammond Maxwell : Hell, what she know?

  Ellen : She got 24 suckers.

• Ellen : Maybe you be no wantin' me no more. You be sellin' me or given me to one of...

  Hammond Maxwell : Oh, Ellen, honey, now, I ain't ever gonna be sellin' you. You're mine.

• Ellen : Is you gonna sell our sucker?

  Hammond Maxwell : No, I ain't. No, I won't do that either, Ellen.

  Ellen : Is you gonna sell Dite's sucker?

  Hammond Maxwell : Well, now, that's different. Our sucker, we keep him right here at Falconhurst. That make you glad? Good.

• Ellen : When our sucker growed up, can he go free? Can you give him his freedom?

  Hammond Maxwell : You craves to be free? Does you craves to be free?

  Ellen : No.

  Hammond Maxwell : Well, then what for you want the sucker to go free?

  Ellen : Cause, for a Buck, for a boy child, a lot of misery don't happen to him. He don't get whupped when the Master wants to whup him. He don't get pinned on a patch a land like a pig. He can't never go no where or do nothin'. He can't learn to read or write, unlessin' he get beat or killed.

• Blanche Maxwell : Oh, you like it when you kiss me?

  Hammond Maxwell : Oh, I do. I do.

  Blanche Maxwell : I crave you to do it.

  [kiss] 

  Blanche Maxwell : Hammond, what we do now?

  Hammond Maxwell : Well, I don't rightly know. With a wench, I'd know. But, with a white lady - I reckon we got to take off some clothin'. Not everything, of course.

  Blanche Maxwell : [laughs]  All right!

• Hammond Maxwell : Cousin Charles, What the hell you doing, kissin on the mouth?

  [Charles throws Katie to bed, removes his belt, and whips her with it] 

  Hammond Maxwell : What you doin that fer?

  Charles : Makes a man feel good. She likes it too. Don't you pretty wench?

  Katie : [Crying]  Yes, master.