Brock Peters credited as playing...
Aesop
- Aesop: [observing the French troops] My outfit could lick those boys - those ones on foot, anyway. With one hand tied behind our backs.
- O.W. Hadley: How's that, Aesop?
- Aesop: They're soft, O.W. - they ain't never been South.
- Capt. Benjamin Tyreen: Mr. Aesop, I am... we would like to complement you and your men on the way you handled the river crossing this afternoon.
- Aesop: Thank you, sir.
- Aesop: Sir. I'd like to volunteer, sir. Me and my six coloreds.
- Maj. Amos Dundee: I haven't asked for volunteers from the command.
- Aesop: We're the ones doing the asking, sir.
- Maj. Amos Dundee: Why?
- Aesop: To fight, sir. We've been standing guard and cleaning stables for nearly two years.
- Maj. Amos Dundee: Tomorrow, you ask the officer of the day to see me - you and your six coloreds.
- Aesop: [salutes Dundee] Thank you, sir.