The Storyteller (TV Series)
The Soldier and Death (1988)
Bob Peck: Soldier
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Quotes
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Soldier : I've come too late.
Tzar's Wife : You've saved beggers and thieves and cats and dogs, yet you won't save your master?
Soldier : If Death needs a new friend, I cannot fight him.
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Innkeeper : These are devlish devils, and gamblers too.
Soldier : I think I'll take a closer look.
[leaves]
Innkeeper : But that's folly!
The Storyteller : [narrating] Folly or not, the soldier goes, sack on his shoulder, whistle on his lips, into the palace.
The Storyteller : [the Soldier enters the empty palace, whistling] And inside it's very quiet. As if the walls were holding their breath... and waiting.
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Soldier's Wife : Oh what shall we do? My lips are sore with praying and my knees are weary of kneeling.
Soldier : I have lost my whistle from worrying. It's the very devil, I say, the very devil.
Soldier : [the devil's foot in the window begins to shake] Now where the devil's that devil of mine?
Devil : [the devil appears in a puff of smoke] I'm here, your excellency.
Soldier : Where have you sprung from?
Devil : Not so much sprung as hopped, sir. You have my foot.
Soldier : Cure my son and you can have it back. This is my good wife, by the way, and this is my devil.
Devil : Hmm, how do you do?
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Soldier : I won't go unless you give me a map to Heaven and a way in.
[a small hatch in the door opens and a rolled-up map is thrown out]
Soldier : [raises voice] And two-hundred souls you have no further use for!
[grumbling noises from behind the door]
Devil : [sticks his head out of hatch] One-hundred-and-fifty!
Soldier : [raises the sack above his head] Do you know what this is?
Devil : Don't wave that sack around. All right, two-hundred. Yech!