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Film Quotes by Torin Thatcher

16 quotes
The Crimson Pirate
Year: 1952

Director:
Robert Siodmak
The Crimson Pirate
Humble Bellows: Meantime, we got regular pirate business to settle. We got the plank, the culprit and the verdict. All we need's a trial, an execution and a sentence.
Slimy: He's guilty!
Humble Bellows: So much for the trial. Now for execution.
-- Torin Thatcher (as Humble Bellows) in The Crimson Pirate (1952)
The Crimson Pirate
Year: 1952

Director:
Robert Siodmak
The Crimson Pirate
Humble Bellows: There goes a good pirate, Stub Ear, to sell his wares like a fish peddler. Meaning no disrespect to the skipper, of course.
Stub Ear: And us, with a price on our heads, hove to in one of His Majesty's ports like sitting ducks.
Poison Paul: But if the skipper pulls us through again, we'll be the ducks what laid the golden eggs.
Humble Bellows: Ye be thinking of geese, if you'll pardon the correction, Poison Paul. Geese... on a wild goose chase.
-- Torin Thatcher (as Humble Bellows) in The Crimson Pirate (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Year: 1952

Director:
Henry King*Roy Ward Baker
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Johnson: Why is it everyone who comes to Africa has to write a book about it? One silly beggar even dedicated his to me! Never came back or I'd have shot him in the pants!
-- Torin Thatcher (as Johnson) in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Witness for the Prosecution
Year: 1957

Director:
Billy Wilder
Witness for the Prosecution
Mr. Myers: I hope we are not to be deprived of the learned and stimulating company of Sir Wilfrid?
-- Torin Thatcher (as Mr. Myers) in Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Jack the Giant Killer
Year: 1962

Director:
Nathan Juran
Jack the Giant Killer
Pendragon: A pity to shatter your innocent dreams, Princess Elaine, but the throne of Cornwall is to be mine and only you can give it to me.
-- Torin Thatcher (as Pendragon) in Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
Jack the Giant Killer
Year: 1962

Director:
Nathan Juran
Jack the Giant Killer
Pendragon: I scheme a thousand nights, put the princess in your very hands and you, imbecile, idiot, allow a mere farmer, a mere mortal to defy me!
Garna: We have failed, master, we have failed.
Pendragon: But only for a moment. I shall have the princess and the farmer shall die. By all the powers of darkness, he shall die!
-- Torin Thatcher (as Pendragon) in Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
Jack the Giant Killer
Year: 1962

Director:
Nathan Juran
Jack the Giant Killer
Pendragon: I'm afraid you were not sufficiently impressed on your first visit. I'll give you a new demonstration of my powers.
-- Torin Thatcher (as Pendragon) in Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
Jack the Giant Killer
Year: 1962

Director:
Nathan Juran
Jack the Giant Killer
Pendragon: Oh Isis, keeper of the magic flame, behold thy shrouded minions, demons of the dark, assembled to prepare before the altar of thy eternal flame a neophyte to serve thee in thy mystic labyrinth.
-- Torin Thatcher (as Pendragon) in Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
Jack the Giant Killer
Year: 1962

Director:
Nathan Juran
Jack the Giant Killer
Pendragon: Welcome to Castle Pendragon.
Jack: I had a sample of your welcome outside.
Pendragon: I must compliment you on your valor, young man. First you vanquish Cormoran, my giant, then you found your way to this island - a feat in itself. Just now you lashed out and destroyed my dragon men with your magic whip - a stroke of genius! A real tragedy to have come so far only to suffer failure.
-- Torin Thatcher (as Pendragon) in Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
Jack the Giant Killer
Year: 1962

Director:
Nathan Juran
Jack the Giant Killer
Pendragon: You have a choice to make, King Mark - your daughter or your throne. In a week I shall return for your answer.
-- Torin Thatcher (as Pendragon) in Jack the Giant Killer (1962)