The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
David Davies: Lead Villager
Quotes
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Gino : Don't grovel to him. Don't let him delight in the destruction of your souls.
Lead Villager : I wish to save our bodies. The few left of us.
Gino : Do you expect any plea to move his heart? If we must die, let's die like human beings.
Lead Villager : You have not seen the Red Death.
Gino : And you've not seen the dungeons of Prospero.
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Prospero : What do you want?
Lead Villager : Mercy, great prince. This is all that is left of us. And the winter it comes and the freezing wind, there is no shelter.
Prospero : Then dig a burrow as the fox and rabbits do.
Lead Villager : But the wells and the streams, they'll be frozen over, there's no food.
Prospero : Then store up nuts like the squirrels.
Lead Villager : Mercy, give us sanctuary of the castle walls.
Prospero : Give me an end to your pleading. Go back from whence you came.
Lead Villager : We will die!
Prospero : If you refuse to go, then die here. Archers!