Ivanhoe (1952)
Emlyn Williams: Wamba
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Quotes
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Minor Role : Milord, there is a stranger at your gate who begs shelter. He is a Jew who calls himself Isaac of York.
Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert : I share no roof with an infidel.
Wamba : Why not, sir knight? For every Jew you show me who's not a Christian, l'll show you a Christian who's not a Christian.
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Wamba : A gentleman at last, and my first task is to steal a horse!
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Sir Cedric : Delayed? How so?
Wamba : Well, when I heard Normans were approaching I ran to lock up my wife. But, she'd also heard they were approaching, and locked me up instead.
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Wamba : A cow jumped the moon, but a fool he jumps higher, from Wamba the serf, to Wamba the squire.
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Wamba : Sir Ivanhoe, I heard an old bear and a young bear growling. Which is the one who would leave the den?
Ivanhoe : The young bear Wamba
Wamba : Alone?
Ivanhoe : Alone
Wamba : No sire, I will go with you. My servant's collar and all.
Ivanhoe : Is your heart not here with the Lady Rowena?
Wamba : No sire. My heart is in there with yours
[touches Ivanhoe's chest]
Ivanhoe : Then henceforth you shall be my Squire, Wamba.
Wamba : Squire? Squire Wamba. Wamba the Squire. Why if it weren't this I'd be a gentleman
[feels his servant's collar]
Wamba : .
Ivanhoe : We'll have that collar off as soon as we're away from here.
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Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert : Are you for Richard, my lord, or John?
Wamba : Richard and John had the same mother. One was a Norman, so what was the other?
Sir Cedric : Both are Norman, true. But Richard, with all his faults, was for England.
Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert : And John?
Sir Cedric : John is for John.
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Sir Cedric : Squire Wamba! Squire Wamba! I'll Squire you, you renegade. I'll collar that neck again, or ring it!
Wamba : Touched mylord. Is that the tone for one gentlemen to use to another?
Sir Cedric : Get out of my sight before my wrath boils over and I squash you like a plum!