The Pink Jungle (1968)

George Kennedy: Ryderbeit

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• Sammy Ryderbeit : [entering Morris' car, holding a machine gun]  Now, don't panic, men. I'm just hitchin' a ride. Rolled my car over on a back road.

  Ben Morris : Did you ever think of using a thumb?

  Sammy Ryderbeit : No, it's more dramatic this way. Also, it works better. Alright, you're cleared for takeoff, skipper.

  Ben Morris : Uh, would you mind taking that gun out of the back of my head?

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Oh. Sure. Forgot I had it. Guns make you nervous?

  [Morris takes off at high speed] 

  Sammy Ryderbeit : I see what you mean. Your hairdo would've been all over the front of your shirt.

• Sammy Ryderbeit : [after being kicked off his mule]  Alright, mule. That the best you can kick? I'm gonna boot you all the way to Chile.

• Ben Morris : He tried to kill me!

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Now how stupid can you get? He just saved your life!

• Ben Morris : Hey, hold up a minute. Sammy, where'd you put the ChapStick?

  Sammy Ryderbeit : I forgot to get any.

  Ben Morris : Over $2,000 for this fouled up expedition and you couldn't even buy a 35-cent ChapStick? Whadda we do now?

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Stop smilin' so much.

• Sammy Ryderbeit : [handing Alison a broken bottle of whisky to drink]  Here, honey.

  Alison Duguesne : It's full of broken glass.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Well, strain it through your teeth. Are you a dude, or somethin'?

• Sammy Ryderbeit : [after shooting McCune]  Think I'd put up with all that lip for nothin'. Could've killed him days ago.

• Sammy Ryderbeit : How much you figure was in the knapsack?

  Dennis McCune (incorrectly given in credits as 'Crowley') : Twenty pounds, at least.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : You don't even know what he's talkin' about, do you? Diamonds measured in pounds. Diamonds are weighed by the *karat*. Five karats make a gram. Twenty-eight grams make an ounce. Five times... twenty-eight times... sixteen.

  Ben Morris : Why, that's - that's something over... two thousand karats to the pound!

• Alison Duguesne : And there are three of us.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : There's six of us. There's two of you, and there's four of me. I used to put on shootin' exhibitions.

  Ben Morris : Was that before or after you were a mercenary in the Congo, an IDB, an ivory hunter, and a major in the Peruvian air force?

• Sammy Ryderbeit : I'm gonna get ahold of him, and the first thing I'm gonna do is dry shave that beard off, face down in the ground!

• Alison Duguesne : Go on. Save yourself.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Well, what's the matter now?

  Ben Morris : She needs rest.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Oh, why in hell do we have to be stuck with a woman?

  Ben Morris : Well, you're not.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Go be a dead hero.

  [walks off] 

  Alison Duguesne : Why don't you go with him?

  Ben Morris : I'm an artist. I'm not supposed to be practical.

• Alison Duguesne : He turned out to be predictable, after all.

  Ben Morris : [sees Sammy returning]  Well, not quite.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : You ever tell anybody I was this big a jerk, and I'll kill you.

• Sammy Ryderbeit : Now that was nice goin'. Bluffin' him with an empty gun.

  Ben Morris : What do you mean, bluffing?

  Sammy Ryderbeit : I can count, can't I? You were out of shells.

  Ben Morris : [removes his last bullet, which is only a tube of lipstick]  With Passion's Plaything, you always get your man. I photographed the original layout.

• Sammy Ryderbeit : Doll, we're gonna buy that yacht, and they can trail us around the world by empty champagne bottles.

  Alison Duguesne : I appreciate it, Sammy, but I'm afraid not.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Now you can't mean that! You owe it to yourself! I'm colorful, I'm lovable... I'm all man.

  Alison Duguesne : I know, I know. But I always had this crazy desire to live till thirty.

• Sammy Ryderbeit : Insect repellent, soap, six cartons of cigarettes, two cases of Scotch whisky, and two hundred cigars. And there it is, from mules to eyeliner. Two thousand, three hundred and sixty-four dollars. Shell out.

• Ben Morris : Wait, wait a minute, Sammy. Uh, uh, you're - you're out of touch. Here - you - who - who uses money? See? There you are: a Diner's Club, American Express, uh, Bank Americard, Shell, Carte Blanche.

  Benavides : Is good! Good! All good! See?

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Now wait a minute. I promised him $500 to keep his mouth shut.

  Benavides : Is alright! Is okay! Is good! Good!

  [writes on the credit card invoice] 

  Benavides : Bribe: $500.

  Ben Morris : There. You see?

  Benavides : Sign here!

• Sammy Ryderbeit : What's a nice girl like you doin' in a place like this?

  Alison Duguesne : Looking for a lost diamond mine.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : You got a map?

  Ben Morris : Sure. Show it to him.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : What'd you pay for this thing?

  Ben Morris : Ten dollars.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Aw... You got stabbed. That version sells for $5 anywhere. Here, I'll show you somethin'. Catch that.

  Alison Duguesne : What is this?

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Now that's a diamond. It's industrial grade. And I know where you can pick up a million dollars' worth in an afternoon.

  Ben Morris : You'd be a king in the used car business.

• Sammy Ryderbeit : Now, listen. This is no corny con game. These diamonds are hidden to hell and gone back in the river bed. Back in the bush. They'll run 20% gem stones. I used to be an IDB before they made it too hot for me.

  Ben Morris : A what?

  Sammy Ryderbeit : An illegal diamond buyer. I told you I was from Joburg, didn't I? Look, you know what a pipe is?

  Ben Morris : Sure, it's the word before "dream."

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Ha ha. A diamond pipe is the matrix. It's blue...

  Alison Duguesne : Watch it!

• Sammy Ryderbeit : [hands Morris an open whisky bottle]  Here, you can't drive on an empty stomach.

• Sammy Ryderbeit : I'm sorry, but I'd hate myself if I turned honest.

  [flies away in the helicopter] 

• Ben Morris : You mean someone took that diamond hokum seriously?

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Seriously? What do you think I stole that helicopter for? Do I look like some kind of a kleptomaniac? $500 to bribe that pilot, and then the damned thing crashed. So now we'll just use mules.

• Ben Morris : I tell ya, there's somethin' phony about him.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Hell, we saw his passport, didn't we?

  Ben Morris : Sure, the passport looks fine. It's him I don't trust.

• Sammy Ryderbeit : Well, I'll be.

  Ben Morris : Alright, smart aleck, where'd you learn that?

  Alison Duguesne : Ha-ha! I've been winning ribbons at horse shows since I was six!

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Doll, you are through markin' time! You have met me and now you can start to *live*! We're gonna *find* those diamonds and we're gonna buy a yacht and sail it all the way around the world!

  Ben Morris : And you deserve each other. I hope you both will always be very seasick.

• Ben Morris : No, no, I mean the log.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : Oh, that. I was wit' a Scottish outfit durin' the war, Jim. Two years. Regimental champion at the caber throw.

• Sammy Ryderbeit : Shut up, and get on the mule.

  Ben Morris : He hasn't even bought the yacht, and already he's Captain Bligh.

  Sammy Ryderbeit : And don't you forget it.