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Manderlay Quotes

Manderlay is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . Manderlay completed its run in 1970.

It features Vibeke Windeløv as producer, Joachim Holbek in charge of musical score, and Anthony Dod Mantle as head of cinematography.

Manderlay is recorded in English and originally aired in Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy. Each episode of Manderlay is 138 minutes long. Manderlay is distributed by Distributionsselskabet (Denmark).

The cast includes: Bryce Dallas Howard as Grace Margaret Mulligan, Danny Glover as Wilhelm, Lauren Bacall as Mam, John Hurt as Narrator, Željko Ivanek as Dr. Hector, Isaach de Bankolé as Timothy, Suzette Llewellyn as Flora, Ruben Brinkman as Bingo, and Joseph Mydell as Mark.

Manderlay Quotes

John Hurt as Narrator

  • (John Hurt) "Her actions would comprise an unconditional enrichment of these people's lives, there was no doubt about that. Or was there?"
  • (John Hurt) "Joseph, a legal expert, with the ability to interpret the most incomprehensible texts, had met his match in the 1923 Ford Owner's Manual."
  • (John Hurt) "It was in the year of 1933, when Grace and her father were heading southward with their army of gangsters."
  • (John Hurt) "America had proffered its hand, discreetly perhaps, if anybody refused to see a helping hand he really only had himself to blame."
  • (John Hurt) "There were still 10 minutes until her slavishly punctual father would arrive outside to wait for his 15-minutes-and-not-a-second-longer."
  • (John Hurt) "Indignation is a rare emotion for a gangster."
  • (John Hurt) "Grace and her father resumed their legendary discord, even as they pulled out of Dogville. And although Grace had been employing the technique of letting things go in one ear and out the other for a pretty long time now, she was, to be frank, somewhat weary of her overweening daddy, who still believed any nagging woman could be pacified with the good old bouquet of carnations."
  • (John Hurt) "What Grace had felt at the bathhouse was undignified, shameful."

Joseph Mydell as Mark

  • (Joseph Mydell) "As a matter of fact I've never been able to tell them apart either. They're both colored, and they both got curly hair."

Bryce Dallas Howard as Grace Margaret Mulligan

  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "You think the Negroes wanted to leave their homes in Africa, wasn't it us who brought them to America? We have done them a great wrong. It's our abuses which made them what they are."
  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "There's nothing to be afraid of. We've taken all of the family's weapons."
  • (Danny Glover) "No. I'm afraid of what will happen now. I feel we ain't ready; for a completely new way of life. At Manderlay we slaves took supper at seven. When do people take supper when they're free? We don't know these things."
  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "Listen, Mr. Hector, let me just say that I have never met a man who I've instantly despised so wholeheartedly, both for his personality and his occupation."
  • (Željko Ivanek) "Does that mean you're turning down my offer?"
  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "What are you talking about? Who are they gonna whip?"
  • (Suzette Llewellyn) "Timothy."
  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "Why?"
  • (Suzette Llewellyn) "That's how they do us slaves."
  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "Slaves?"
  • (Suzette Llewellyn) "Yes ma'am, surely you have heard of slaves? That's what we is at Manderlay, this godforsaken place."
  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "Should the cotton have already been planted?"
  • (Ruben Brinkman) "I'm not the sort of fellow to pass on information unless I'm damn sure, 'less the facts of the matter are 100 percent."
  • (Ruben Brinkman) "In other words, the facts need be beyond dispute."
  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "Do you know when to plant?"
  • (Ruben Brinkman) "No."

Danny Glover as Wilhelm

  • (Danny Glover) "Just as you thought the notion of community would be good for us, you were so sure that you've permitted yourself to use force to convince us. I'd be sorry if we have to do likewise."
  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "What do you mean? Do you intend to keep me prisoner?"
  • (Danny Glover) "Only until you understand what you wanted us to understand. The gate has been repaired and is closed. The fences are in good shape, but of course they aint particularly high. Those fences -- come on. Two men with a rusty shot gun and a toy pistol. How dumb do you really think we are?"

Isaach de Bankolé as Timothy

  • (Isaach de Bankolé) "You are forgetting one thing."
  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "What's that?"
  • (Isaach de Bankolé) "You made us."

Lauren Bacall as Mam

  • (Lauren Bacall) "I beg you, one woman to another."
  • (Bryce Dallas Howard) "Woman to woman, makes no difference to me. The sins of the past are sins I cannot and do not wish to help you erase."

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