Guns at Batasi (1964)

Errol John: Lieut. Boniface

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Quotes 

• Lt. Boniface : You will appreciate that it is I who give the orders and you who will obey! For the first time in the history of my country, Sergeant Major, it is the African who is putting the shell into the breech and giving the order to fire!

  RSM Lauderdale : Really, Mr. Boniface? I don't think I've ever come across a misfit of your size and quality before. You've missed your vocation. You ought to be in Hyde Park! If you do happen to go putting a shell into the breech, sir, I sincerely hope that you'll remember to put the sharp end to the front.

• Miss Baker Wise, M.P. : But Boni, I-I don't understand you. When you were in England you were so different.

  Lt. Boniface : Yes, I was one of your African mascots then, wasn't I? Sitting at your feet listening to you talk, my God, how you talked! No one talks better than the British; they drug you with talk and when you wake up they still have their heel on your neck.