Kidnapped (1971)

Michael Caine: Alan Breck

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Quotes 

• Alan Breck : You should not be thinking of your father now, but Scotland. Scotland, lassie, do you know what that means?

• Alan Breck : Can I not stay here?

  Charles Stewart : No, you cannot! There's 30 nails in ma coffin already. I'm getting tired of the sound of hammering.

• Alan Breck : Open up! Open up, I say, or I'll knock here all night! Open up!

  Ebenezer Balfour : [wielding a gun out an upper window]  Who are you? What do you want?

  Alan Breck : Ah, Mr. Balfour, is it?

  Ebenezer Balfour : Aye, aye. State your business and be on your way.

  Alan Breck : I can state that in one word: David!

  Ebenezer Balfour : David? What's he to you?

  Alan Breck : Eh, some friends of mine found him on a beach, half drowned, in Mull. And they've been through great expense to keep him. So, if you want to see him back, you'll have to pay.

  Ebenezer Balfour : The lad's nothing to me. I'll pay nothing to get him back.

  Alan Breck : Ah, that's what I thought. So you want him killed then. Well, my friends will do that too, provided the price is right.

  Ebenezer Balfour : I don't want him killed! Who says I want him killed?

  Alan Breck : Why? Hoseason said that's what you'd want. Since he couldn't fulfill his part of the bargain and drown the lad in the sea Lower your voice, man.

  Ebenezer Balfour : Lower your voice! Did Hoseason say that? He lied! Why, I paid him 20 guineas to sell the lad in the Carolinas, nothing more. Why would I want him killed? He's my born nephew! I paid to have him kidnapped, that's all.

  David Balfour : [stepping into view]  Thank you, uncle! My friends here will testify in court to what you've just said.