Oliver Reed credited as playing...
Joe Knox
- Joe Knox: My father was a sergeant, two corporals, a bugler and a company cook.
- Sam Longwood: Well, that makes you about five, six white men after all!
- [laughs]
- Sam Longwood: I think the army did you a favor.
- Joe Knox: And I have been trying to repay that favor ever since I learned how to use a hunting knife.
- [opens his vest to show his collection of scalps]
- Sam Longwood: Oh, for Christ sake, will you put those mouldy scalps away? I happen to know that you bought them off a drummer in New Haven, Connecticut for fifty cents a piece.
- Sam Longwood: Raped? What's that, an old Indian tradition?
- Joe Knox: It's an army tradition. I was conceived at Wolf Paw massacre, remember?
- Sam Longwood: Well, the army teaches it's men to love the enemy.
- Joe Knox: Yes. In groups.
- Sam Longwood: [upon the revelation that Joe Knox has venereal disease] Now you get that taken care of! And I don't mean by no moldy medicine man! I mean by a white, American doctor.
- Billy: Right! And what'll he do? He'll take this silver wire about this long...
- [stretches hands wide apart]
- Billy: and he'll heat it on his little stove until it's real hot. And then he'll uh...
- [mimes the extremely painful procedure while making a loud hissing sound, Joe Knox cringes painfully]
- Joe Knox (Joseph Pendergast Knox): [closeup of Joe's face, sweating profusely] Joe Knox... no go to doctor.
- Sam Longwood: [mocking] I thought Indians could take any amount of pain, without flinching.
- Joe Knox (Joseph Pendergast Knox): Not this Indian.