Film Quotes by Mantan Moreland
12 quotes
Year: 1941
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Bill Summers:
It's the same drums we heard the other night. Voodoo drums! Come on, we've got to find him!
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Oh Mr. Billy, we found enough for one day!
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Oh Mr. Billy, we found enough for one day!
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Mantan Moreland
in
King of the Zombies
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Samantha, the Maid:
What you doing in that lineup?
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Don't bother me woman. Can't you see I is a has-been?
Samantha, the Maid: A zombie?
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Nothing else but. And don't ask me my name, 'cuz I don't know. I don't know nothing.
Samantha, the Maid: You ain't no zombie, 'cuz zombies can't talk.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Can I help it 'cuz I'm loquacious?
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Don't bother me woman. Can't you see I is a has-been?
Samantha, the Maid: A zombie?
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Nothing else but. And don't ask me my name, 'cuz I don't know. I don't know nothing.
Samantha, the Maid: You ain't no zombie, 'cuz zombies can't talk.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: Can I help it 'cuz I'm loquacious?
--
Mantan Moreland
in
King of the Zombies
(1941)
Year: 1945
Director:
Phil Karlson
Director:
Phil Karlson
Tommy Chan:
[trapped in a cave-in as Charlie taps Morse Code] Do you think you'll get through, Pop?
Charlie Chan: If not, Number Three Son and father will join honorable ancestors.
Birmingham Brown: Mr. Chan, tell your ancestors to move over and make room for me.
Charlie Chan: If not, Number Three Son and father will join honorable ancestors.
Birmingham Brown: Mr. Chan, tell your ancestors to move over and make room for me.
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Mantan Moreland
(as Birmingham Brown)
in
The Shanghai Cobra
(1945)
Year: 1945
Director:
Phil Karlson
Director:
Phil Karlson
Tommy Chan:
Pop, I want to talk to you as man to man.
Charlie Chan: I am ready, but you still have few years to go.
Birmingham Brown: That's right.
Charlie Chan: I am ready, but you still have few years to go.
Birmingham Brown: That's right.
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Mantan Moreland
(as Birmingham Brown)
in
The Shanghai Cobra
(1945)
Year: 1945
Director:
Phil Rosen
Director:
Phil Rosen
Birmingham Brown:
Move over troubles - here we come again!
--
Mantan Moreland
in
The Jade Mask
(1945)
Year: 1944
Director:
Phil Rosen
Director:
Phil Rosen
Birmingham Brown:
Talk? Mr. Chan, I can't. I'm so scared I can hardly gulp!
--
Mantan Moreland
in
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
(1944)
Year: 1942
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Jeff:
That was my Grandpappy, he worked in a circus.
Roxbury B. Brown, III: You don't say. What'd he do?
Jeff: Oh he dove off a 200 foot platform into a damp rag.
Roxbury B. Brown, III: That's pretty good. How often did he do that?
Jeff: Oh just once. The rag wasn't damp enough.
Roxbury B. Brown, III: You don't say. What'd he do?
Jeff: Oh he dove off a 200 foot platform into a damp rag.
Roxbury B. Brown, III: That's pretty good. How often did he do that?
Jeff: Oh just once. The rag wasn't damp enough.
--
Mantan Moreland
in
Freckles Comes Home
(1942)
Year: 1941
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson:
[Eating the food set out for the zombies] This being a zombie sure is a drawback. Where's the salt?
Samantha, the Maid: You eats that the way it is and likes it. Zombies ain't supposed to use salt.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha brings Jeff the salt] I thought you said!
Samantha, the Maid: I changed my mind.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha continues to pour the salt] That's more like it. Take it easy there woman, I ain't no herring!
Samantha, the Maid: Now eat.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha keeps pouring the salt] Whew! What is you trying to do? Poison me?
Samantha, the Maid: You eats that the way it is and likes it. Zombies ain't supposed to use salt.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha brings Jeff the salt] I thought you said!
Samantha, the Maid: I changed my mind.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha continues to pour the salt] That's more like it. Take it easy there woman, I ain't no herring!
Samantha, the Maid: Now eat.
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson: [Samantha keeps pouring the salt] Whew! What is you trying to do? Poison me?
--
Mantan Moreland
in
King of the Zombies
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson:
[hearing voodoo drums] It ain't Gene Krupa!
--
Mantan Moreland
in
King of the Zombies
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Director:
Jean Yarbrough
Jefferson 'Jeff' Jackson:
[Squeezing between two hypnotized "zombies"] Move over boys, I'm one of the gang now.
--
Mantan Moreland
in
King of the Zombies
(1941)