Quotes from The Prodigal (1955)
11 quotes
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Nahreeb:
Damacus has dealt generously with you. Even your slave has a slave.
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Louis Calhern
(as Nahreeb)
in
The Prodigal
(1955)
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Nahreeb:
I'll break his body and what he calls his soul!
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Louis Calhern
(as Nahreeb)
in
The Prodigal
(1955)
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Micah:
[referring to his first sight of Samarra] Nahreeb, you said that everything has its price.
Nahreeb: She is not for a follower of Jehovah! Micah: I mean to have her one way or the other!
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Edmund Purdom
(as Micah)
in
The Prodigal
(1955)
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Micah:
[Referring to Ruth] If she did come, I would tell her that what cannot be forgotten can sometimes be forgiven.
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Edmund Purdom
(as Micah)
in
The Prodigal
(1955)
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Micah:
Asham. I've drunk deep of every wine from here to Petra, and I've had my full share of women. Yet I'm behaving like a beardless boy panting for the first forbidden fruit that he sees. A priestess who worships a painted graven image! But she's in my blood!
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Edmund Purdom
(as Micah)
in
The Prodigal
(1955)
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Micah:
I would rather be a servant in my father's house than king in Damascus.
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Edmund Purdom
(as Micah)
in
The Prodigal
(1955)
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Micah:
Sometimes, Asham, a man must make a little trouble.
-
Edmund Purdom
(as Micah)
in
The Prodigal
(1955)
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Ruth:
A woman always knows more than her man thinks.
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Audrey Dalton
(as Ruth)
in
The Prodigal
(1955)
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Carmish:
You're a stranger in Damascus. I can tell by your beard. And what each stranger hungers to see first is the Tinted Wall. Only a stone's throw away, the Tinted Wall! Let Carmish take you, for as Carmish is known to say, grab hold of the day - who knows if the night will ever come?
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Joseph Wiseman
(as Carmish)
in
The Prodigal
(1955)
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Samarra:
A high priestess cries the day she is born and never again in her lifetime.
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Lana Turner
(as Samarra)
in
The Prodigal
(1955)
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