Mae Mercer credited as playing...
Hallie
- Hallie: Miss Martha said I should shave you. But I ain't so sure.
- [examining his face]
- Hallie: I don't think the Lord want a man's face all smooth like a baby's bottom. That's why he gave him whiskers. Might be a sin to shave that group off.
- Cpl. John McBurney: [huskily] Then don't do it. Sinning oughta be saved for *much* more important things!
- Hallie: I better shave you! Miss Martha give me my orders. Not the Lord. And even without whiskers, you wouldn't look half bad - for a white man.
- [laughs]
- Cpl. John McBurney: You're a damn handsome woman, Hallie. Maybe I'll just start with you. Go down in the cellar. I've been havin' a run of bad luck lately. I understand the way to fix that is to have a black woman.
- Hallie: Then, white boy, you better like it with a died black woman. Because, that's the only way you'll get it from this one.
- Hallie: Now, pull off his pants. Go ahead, Miss Martha. He's not made no different than your brother.
- Cpl. John McBurney: You and I ought to be friends, Hallie.
- Hallie: How you figure that?
- Cpl. John McBurney: Well, we're both kinda prisoners here. Aren't we?
- Hallie: We're different, Mr. Yankee. I can run.
- Cpl. John McBurney: Sometimes a man's gotta do things he doesn't particularly like.
- Hallie: Not if you're free, you don't. And you white folks ain't killin' each other 'cause you care about us niggers. White mans de same everywhere in this world.
- Hallie: Miss Doris, that thing in your hand is for hoein', not leanin'.
- Doris: It's nigger work! And its ruining my hands. Why, I'll never be able to play the harp again!
- Hallie: That nigger work is what feed us. And if we don't get enough of it, you'll go where you can play your harp, your holy of long days.
- Hallie: Like to suck a raw egg while I shave you? It'll give you energy.
- Cpl. John McBurney: Thanks.
- Hallie: You get the thanks. Those hens hadn't laid for months before you came. You must got rooster blood in you!
- Hallie: You figure dem Yanks gonna burn this place down?
- Martha Farnsworth: Hallie, don't talk that way. Its hard enough to get the girls to study as it is.
- Martha Farnsworth: I'm afraid its some time since the Corporal had a bath.
- Hallie: I noticed. You ladies leave. I'll get some clean water and wash him down.