Son of Kong (1933)

John Marston: Captain Nils Helstrom

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Quotes 

• Helstrom : Yeah, you're broke too.

  Carl Denham : Broke?

  [chuckles] 

  Carl Denham : I'm shattered.

• Helstrom : [stops Hilda in the streets of Dakang]  Oh, ah, miss... I heard about your father. If I could do anything...

  Hilda : [ice cold]  You've done enough. You killed my father.

  Helstrom : Killed? Why... what? The tent caught fire...

  Hilda : My father was beaten over the head. He wasn't burned. What do you think the magistrate will say to that when he gets here?

  Helstrom : You can't accuse me! You mustn't dare...

  Hilda : How do you know I wasn't? Unless you were? How do you know what my father said me before he... before he died?

  Helstrom : [scared]  He... What did he say?

  Hilda : The magistrate will be here in a few days. I'll tell him.

  Helstrom : [tries to be threatening]  You'd better be careful! What are you going to tell the magistrate?

  Hilda : You can just wonder about that 'till he gets here.

• Helstrom : [sees Denham and Englehorn sitting in a Dakang bar]  Carl Denham! Don't you remember me? Nils Helstrom.

  Carl Denham : Why, for the love of Mike. Helstrom! Sure I remember you!

  [indicates Englhorn] 

  Carl Denham : Oh, this is Captain Englehorn. Captain Helstrom.

  [Englehorn and Helstrom shake hands] 

  Carl Denham : Sit down.

  [to Englehorn] 

  Carl Denham : Say, do you know who this is? The man who gave me the map of Kong's Island. And he wants to know if I remember him?

  [laughs] 

  Carl Denham : Have a drink.

  [pours Helstrom a drink] 

  Helstrom : [to Englehorn]  So, that was your ship came in last night?

  Englehorn : Mine and Denham's.

  Helstrom : [to Denham]  I heard about you in Singapore. How you captured the biggest animal on earth and taken him back to New York.

• Helstrom : Oh, and I'm going to make you First Mate.

  Red : Is that so? Do you think we got rid of a good captain for a bad one?

• Red : [after hearing about the last trip to Kong's island]  He expect *us* to go ashore?

  [gestures to Denham] 

  Helstrom : Sure. He's got to have a bodyguard, hasn't he? Say, you know there were a dozen sailors killed on the last voyage he made here?

  Red : Killed? By them animals?

  Helstrom : Yeah. But, you see Denham and the Skipper came out all right. Ah, but you don't have to worry. There are plenty of rifles aboard.

  [suggestively] 

  Helstrom : If *I* were captain, I certainly wouldn't take my crew into danger.