Oliver Reed: Joe Knox
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Quotes
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Billy : Hey, Whatadaya got there, Joe Knox?
Joe Knox (Joseph Pendergast Knox) : Whores, Billy! Whores!
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Sam Longwood : Raped? What's that, an old Indian tradition?
Joe Knox : It's an army tradition. I was conceived at Wolf Paw massacre, remember?
Sam Longwood : Well, the army teaches it's men to love the enemy.
Joe Knox : Yes. In groups.
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Joe Knox : My father was a sergeant, two corporals, a bugler and a company cook.
Sam Longwood : Well, that makes you about five, six white men after all!
[laughs]
Sam Longwood : I think the army did you a favor.
Joe Knox : And I have been trying to repay that favor ever since I learned how to use a hunting knife.
[opens his vest to show his collection of scalps]
Sam Longwood : Oh, for Christ sake, will you put those mouldy scalps away? I happen to know that you bought them off a drummer in New Haven, Connecticut for fifty cents a piece.
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Sam Longwood : [upon the revelation that Joe Knox has venereal disease] Now you get that taken care of! And I don't mean by no moldy medicine man! I mean by a white, American doctor.
Billy : Right! And what'll he do? He'll take this silver wire about this long...
[stretches hands wide apart]
Billy : and he'll heat it on his little stove until it's real hot. And then he'll uh...
[mimes the extremely painful procedure while making a loud hissing sound, Joe Knox cringes painfully]
Joe Knox (Joseph Pendergast Knox) : [closeup of Joe's face, sweating profusely] Joe Knox... no go to doctor.
Sam Longwood : [mocking] I thought Indians could take any amount of pain, without flinching.
Joe Knox (Joseph Pendergast Knox) : Not this Indian.
