Black Moon (1934)

Arnold Korff: Dr. Raymond Perez

Quotes 

• Juanita Perez Lane : The past is dead! The natives have forgotten long ago.

  Dr. Raymond Perez : The natives never forget!

• Dr. Raymond Perez : You know that no natives except the servants are allowed into the house!

  Juanita Perez Lane : He's a holy man. A priest. Their leader. He's above any servant! I've known him since I was a child.

  Dr. Raymond Perez : Then, let him remain in the hills where he belongs. If I ever find him in this house ever again, I'll have him whipped!

• Gail Hamilton : Mr. Lane, I must talk to you right away.

  Dr. Raymond Perez : Perhaps you will permit me to talk to Mr. Lane first. Since you were so foolish to endanger all our lives by sending that radiogram.

• Dr. Raymond Perez : Listen. The sun is just setting.

  Stephen Lane : What is it?

  Dr. Raymond Perez : Drums. Rada drums.

  Stephen Lane : Rada drums?

  Dr. Raymond Perez : Blood worship. Sacrifice to the black gods. You call it voodoo.

  Stephen Lane : What does it mean?

  Dr. Raymond Perez : Who knows. But, this I do know, never have the drums beat so on St. Christopher without trouble.

• Dr. Raymond Perez : [Rada drums beating in the background]  Something is happening. You ask me what and I can only say I do not know. I merely consider this. We are five whites. Two of them are women and one is a helpless child. And around us are two thousand black. Fully three-quarters of these are hill bandits - fugitives from Haiti.

• Dr. Raymond Perez : [Showing Stephen Lane his stock of guns]  We've been prepared for the last 100 years. Six times the blacks have tried to wipe us out. I suppose you're acquainted with the negro superstition that seven is their lucky number.

• Dr. Raymond Perez : Those years I grew careless. I trusted Juanita to a native nurse, Ruva. She taught her the Rada of the blacks. At night, when I thought she was asleep, she was taken with native children to watch the sacrifice. She tasted blood!