The Cross and the Switchblade (1970) Poster

Pat Boone: David Wilkerson

Quotes 

  • Nicky Cruz : You come near me and I'll kill you!

    David Wilkerson : Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in the street, and every piece will still love you.

  • David Wilkerson : [Last Lines]  You can take it from this skinny preacher from the hills of Pennsylvania; The cross is mightier than the switchblade.

  • David Wilkerson : You wouldn't be afraid to shake hands with a skinny preacher, would you?

  • Big Cat : Tell me, Preach. This God of yours, does he rumble?

    David Wilkerson : Yeah... Yeah, he rumbles. He's fighting for you right now.

  • Mr. Gomez : What miracle brings such a fine young man to our troubled streets?

    David Wilkerson : Miracle? I was begining to think it was pure insanity. But you people... you make me believe it was something good.

  • Lawyer : What makes you think they will let these kids go?

    David Wilkerson : I've got a whole church back in Phillipsburg praying for them.

    Lawyer : [everyone Laughs at David]  Well, they'd better be praying, because the D.A. will burn those creeps.

  • David Wilkerson : Jesus Christ was perfect and they crucified him!

  • Little Bo : Hey, he wants to meet the gang. Why don't you take him inside?

    Angela : I can't. Mau-Maus are waiting for a war council with the Bishops. My brother's inside.

    David Wilkerson : It's all right, Bo. We'll go in.

    Little Bo : Now wait a minute, I don't know. Like I said, I'm a loner. I swing from one gang to another, they might not like it.

    Angela : You're just afraid they might cut you.

    Little Bo : Oh go on, take him in!

    Angela : Anh-anh. I ain't gonna get bawled out... unless you give me five dollars.

    Little Bo : C'mon, you can turn him loose once he's inside the door.

    Angela : Five dollars is my price.

    Little Bo : [pulls David away to talk in privacy]  Five dollars is this chick's top dollar. For that you get two joints of marijuana, her body AND two bits change.

    David Wilkerson : Should I give her some money?

    Little Bo : Two bucks top.

    [David reaches for his wallet] 

    Little Bo : You better make it three, you don't wanna insult her pride...

    [they walk back to Angela] 

    Little Bo : Cat could only swing two.

    Little Bo : [hands Angela two dollars while she keeps one for herself] 

  • David Wilkerson : Some of you are so blind that you're heading for a ditch and you don't even know it.

  • Rosa : Hey Preach, this god of yours... What's he gonna do for me? I'm a mainliner. You know, the hot stuff. Heroin! A whole mountain of snow white. That's heaven. What have you got? huh?

    David Wilkerson : I-I don't have any magic cure.

    Rosa : Then what did you come here for?

  • Delano : You've been working with a bad bunch of apples, and you've got them smiling!

    David Wilkerson : I don't see Nicky smiling.

  • Little Bo : This turf belongs to the AAAGP. They don't rumble anyhow, they just freak out.

    David Wilkerson : What's the AAAGP?

    Little Bo : That's the 'American Association for the Advancement of Gangs and Pot'.

  • David Wilkerson : Rosa, if you really want Nicky, you're gonna have to get yourself clean.

    Rosa : I want ten bucks! And you're gonna give it to me or I'll cut you!

  • David Wilkerson : Bo, do you believe in God?

    Little Bo : [laughs]  I don't worry about him. I just worry about the pigs and hustlin' for bread.

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