The Scalphunters (1968)

Burt Lancaster: Joe Bass

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• Joseph Lee : [walking behind Joe Bass and his horse]  What about me, sir?

  Joe Bass : I'll just sell you to the highest bidder.

  Joseph Lee : Could you mske that to a Comanche, sir?

  Joe Bass : You seem to have an uncommon prejudice against service to the white-skinned race!

  Joseph Lee : I don't mean to be narrow in my attitude. Could I ask you what's your name, sir?

  Joe Bass : Joe Bass.

  Joseph Lee : Well, Mr. Bass, couldn't you kind of consider me a captured Comanche?

  Joe Bass : [both Joe Bass and his horse turn around and do a 'take'] 

  Joseph Lee : I came on my own two feet as far as those Comanches. It was my intent to circle south as far as Mexico. The Mexicans have a law against the slavery trade, and since those Indians captured me from other Indians. I have now got full Indian citizenship.

  Joe Bass : Joseph Lee, you ever study the law?

  Joseph Lee : No, sir.

  Joe Bass : Well, neither did I, but you ain't got a chance in hell of calling yerself an Indian! You're an African slave by employment, black by color!

• Joe Bass : If God ever made two greater inventions than a pretty woman and a bottle of whiskey, I ain't heard of it!

• Joe Bass : Scalp hunters. Collect a $25 bounty on Indian scalps. Men, women, and children like jackals. Territory government pays it. Dirtiest, rottenest trade ever turned a dollar.

• Joe Bass : You mean you want to stay with these, with these heathens?

• Joe Bass : [to the Indians who are bilking him out of his furs]  You're all right, Two Crows. You oughta be a white man. They'd make you captain of the steamboat and president of the bank. Just because you own this damn country!

• Joe Bass : You ever fight twelve drunk Indians?

  Joseph Lee : No, sir, but I'd like to see it done.

• Joe Bass : [to Joseph Lee]  Throw you in a pigpen, and you'd come out vice-president of the hogs.

• Joe Bass : What the hell are you standin' there for? Can't you speak English?

  Joseph Lee : No, sir!

  Joe Bass : Whattaya mean, 'No, sir'?

  Joseph Lee : I mean I wish I didn't.

• Joe Bass : [surfacing out of the river and startling Joseph Lee]  Julius Caesar. You're a hell of a dancing man but you sure can't fight.

• Joe Bass : [watching Jin Howie apparently riding off leaving Joe's furs]  . Don't seem right - that man doing an honest thing.