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Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning (1988)

Brad Dourif: Deputy Pell

Mississippi Burning

Brad Dourif credited as playing...

Deputy Pell

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  • Deputy Pell: You got no right to be here. This is a political meeting.
  • Ward: Doesn't smell that way to me, Deputy.
  • Deputy Pell: It's a damn political meeting, Hoover Boy.
  • Ward: Oh, it looks like a political meeting, but smells more like Klan to me... with or without the Halloween costumes.
  • Deputy Clinton Pell: You have to be a member to drink here.
  • Anderson: Member? A member of what?
  • [long pause]
  • Deputy Clinton Pell: Member of the social club.
  • Ward: Good morning. My name is Allen Ward. I'm with the FBI.
  • Deputy Pell: [mockingly] Oooh. The Federal Bureau of Integration? In that getup, you ain't exactly undercover, are ya?
  • Deputy Pell: It's a goddamn political meeting, hoover boy.
  • Ward: Oh, it looks like a political meeting but it smells more like Klan to me, with or without the Halloween costumes.
  • Ward: Good morning. My name is Alan Ward. I'm with the FBI.
  • Deputy Clinton Pell: Federal Bureau of Integration?
  • [laughs]
  • Deputy Clinton Pell: That getup you ain't exactly undercover, are you now?
  • Ward: We're here to see Sheriff Stuckey.
  • Deputy Clinton Pell: Sheriff's right busy now. You'll have to wait or come back some other time.
  • Ward: [Smiling] We'll wait.
  • Anderson: [Approaches Deputy Pell] Listen to me you backwoods shitass you. You got about two seconds to get the Sheriff out here or I'm gonna kick the God damn door in. OK?
  • [Smiles]
  • Deputy Pell: Y'all think you can drive any ol' speed you want down here.
  • Goatee: You had us scared to death, man.
  • Deputy Pell: Don't you call me man, Jew boy!
  • Goatee: Yes, sir. What should I call you?
  • Deputy Pell: You don't call me nothing, nigger-loving Jew boy. You just listen.
  • Goatee: Yes, sir.
  • Deputy Pell: Funny, their kids are so cute.

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