The Black Rose Quotes

The Black Rose is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . The Black Rose completed its run in 1970.

It features Louis D. Lighton as producer, Richard Addinsell in charge of musical score, and Jack Cardiff as head of cinematography.

The Black Rose is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Black Rose is 120 minutes long. The Black Rose is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Jack Hawkins as Tristram Griffin, Michael Rennie as King Edward, Orson Welles as Bayan, and Alfonso Bedoya as Lu Chung.

The Black Rose Quotes

Jack Hawkins as Tristram Griffin

• (Unnamed) "I saw you at the beginning. You and your bowman against those fire tubes."
• (Jack Hawkins) "They sounded like the anger of God. I think perhaps they were. They're killing every man, woman, and child in the district like harvesters through a field of grain. They pull their heads forward by the hair for the ax. Not one left alive. Like harvesters cutting wheat."

• (Jack Hawkins) "I was thinking about going with you."
• (Unnamed) "To Cathay?"
• (Jack Hawkins) "Well, where's that?"
• (Unnamed) "Well, it's a long way from your forest."
• (Jack Hawkins) "Well, maybe Sarah would like it there."
• (Unnamed) "Now, don't talk too lightly about it, Tris,. If we should go to such a place, the chances are all you'll get out of it is that, in the end, you'll be hung by a Mongol instead of a Norman."
• (Jack Hawkins) "Well, if it comes to that, I'd sooner give the pleasure to somebody I don't know than a Norman I hate."
• (Unnamed) "A far land it is then. I guess this is the beginning."

Orson Welles as Bayan

• (Orson Welles) "That's the only way you can ever sleep soundly, you know, when your enemy's sleep is eternal."

• (Orson Welles) "You can refuse to go if you want to. The risk is great enough."
• (Unnamed) "No. I'll go, my Lord."
• (Orson Welles) "It's settled then."
• (Orson Welles) "Scholar? Maybe I'm a little sorry I thought of this journey for you, but be sure of this: if they kill you, I'll kill 10 of them for every hair on your head -- I have a strange feeling I may not see you again -- If that's true, I'll miss you, Scholar -- I don't miss many men."
• (Unnamed) "Well, for your sake, I'll try not to get killed."

• (Unnamed) "Oh, how do we find your tent?"
• (Orson Welles) "Scholar, if any man in my army can't tell you where my tent is, our poetic young bowman can use him as a target."

• (Orson Welles) "Well, it's worth something to be willing to die for something."

Alfonso Bedoya as Lu Chung

• (Alfonso Bedoya) "Never talk important matters where you cannot see who listens."

Michael Rennie as King Edward

• (Michael Rennie) "Tell me, when you refuse me your loyalty because I am a Norman, have you not considered that I have no choice in the same matter; that I must be king for Norman and Saxon alike whether I like it or not. Do you, Saxon, not owe something besides hatred to the same cause?"

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