James Cardwell: Paul Cooper

Daughter of the Jungle

Paul Cooper

[last lines]
Paul Cooper: [reaching the bank of a river] Well, here we are at the Katobi.
Ticoora: The rest of the way should be easy for you, Paul. I'll go back and wait with Dad.
Paul Cooper: Oh no, you're not. I won't let you go back throught that jungle alone. You're goin' with me. We'll keep that date with your dad - together.
[Paul and Ticoora embrace]

[first lines]
[a plane with four passengers is flying through a vicious thunderstorm over uncharted African jungle]
Dalton Kraik: Hey, Lamser, this is a laugh. Feds chase us all the way to Africa to nail us and we beat the rap.
Paul Cooper: Don't be too sure of that.
Dalton Kraik: I bet my hunches, Fly Boy. Right now I got a hunch that you're lost. Hey, Richards, lay you six-to-five your Cairo office cancels our boat reservations.
Kenneth Richards: Your bookmaking days are over, Kraik.
Dalton Kraik: Well, maybe. Right now I got a hunch Fly Boy doesn't know where he is or where he's goin'. Give you a pretty good price, Richards, on... .
Kenneth Richards: Save it, Kraik. You're through. It's birds like you that keep things stirred up in the world, especially the Near East. Stealing and selling war materias to revolutionists... Big business.

Carl Easton: This is absolute madness. We can't go on like this. He said Mahorib's ahead. We don't know what we'll walk into.
Paul Cooper: Snap out of it, Easton. According to my charts, we should reach the Katobi River sometime tomorrow. Then our worries will be over.
Dalton Kraik: Yeah, you hear that, rummy? I'll take a slug of your jungle juice. C'mon.
Paul Cooper: What are you in a hurry for, Kraik? You should be the one who would want to stop.
Dalton Kraik: No, you don't get the idea. See, jails don't bother me. There isn't a jail built that I can't get out of. But this place - whoa! It's worse than solitary. I want out - fast.

[after Kraik slaps Easton]
Paul Cooper: What's the matter, Kraik? Were you afraid he was going to tell us you smashed the radio set? That wasn't hard to figure out.
Dalton Kraik: Go to the head of the class.

[Ticoora, Paul, Lamser and Kraik, are dragged into the witch doctor's camp where they find Easton unharmed]
Paul Cooper: Easton - you're alive!
Dalton Kraik: Yeah, sure he's alive and doin' fine, ain't ya, pal. Hey, tell these French poodles to turn me loose.
[Easton just smiles]
Dalton Kraik: Easton, this is beginnin' to smell like a double-cross.
Carl Easton: Not exactly a double-cross, Kraik - just the law of the jungle I've learned from 12 years here. Survival of the fittest.