Shaft (1971)

Moses Gunn: Bumpy Jonas

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• Bumpy Jonas : [answering his phone]  Wrong Number.

  John Shaft : Don't bull me, man. I got the right number. This is Shaft.

  Bumpy Jonas : How'd the hell you get this number?

  John Shaft : Off a bathroom wall in the god damn subway!

• Bumpy Jonas : When will I hear from you?

  John Shaft : When I got something to say.

• Ben Buford : A lot of hyped-up black people give you that money you're spendin', pimp!

  Bumpy Jonas : Don't you try to bullshit me, boy. We're all on the hustle. I sell broads and dope and numbers. You sell crap and blue sky. It's all the same game.

• Bumpy Jonas : Wrong number.

  John Shaft : Cut the crap, man, this is Shaft.

• John Shaft : You're a cagey spook, Bumpy.

  Bumpy Jonas : You ride a tall horse, Mr Shaft.

• Bumpy Jonas : My baby never sold nothin' to nobody, never took nothin' from nobody. She's a straight kid. She's going to college.

• John Shaft : This is Ben Buford. Your little caper cost him five friends last night.

  Ben Buford : We're gonna take it out of your ass, Pimp!

  Bumpy Jonas : You're pushing me a little far.

• Bumpy Jonas : Set a price.

  Ben Buford : Ten thousand dollars a head. That's what honky's government pays a cat in the army for insurance. Ten grand a man. That's our price!

  Bumpy Jonas : Alright.

  Ben Buford : You tellin' me you're willing to lay out that kind of bread for Marcy? Don't jive me man.

  Bumpy Jonas : Can always get more money. I only got one baby.

• John Shaft : I thought the money didn't matter to you. Just getting your baby back.

  Bumpy Jonas : Money ALWAYS matters...

• Ben Buford : You grabbed a dope hustler up here from the Mafia. You made yourself some big bread. Now the Mafia cats wanna move in on ya.

  Bumpy Jonas : So what?

• John Shaft : The police got a whole unit that does that kind of work - free.

  Bumpy Jonas : Not for me. You know I can't go to the cops.

  John Shaft : And you want me, huh? A spade detective.

  Bumpy Jonas : Yeah, I want you. Cause you're a black spade detective. And I want you 'cause you got you're other foot in Whitey's straw.