The Little Colonel (1935)

Bill Robinson: Walker

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• Miss Lloyd Sherman : Mom Beck, why do they dunk the women in the river that way?

  Becky Porter : That's to save their souls and wash their sins away.

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : Will it wash my sins away?

  Becky Porter : Well, honey, you ain't got no sins. You is a little angel.

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : Well, would it wash my sins away if I had any?

  Becky Porter : Yes, honey. If you carried the right thought and believed it would.

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : Were you ever dunked, Mom Beck?

  Walker : A little river like that wouldn't do her no good. Child, she needs the Mississippi!

• Col. Lloyd : Oh, stop chattering, Walker!

  Walker : Yes, sir.

  Col. Lloyd : I don't want to hear all this gossip.

  Walker : No, sir. I was going to tell you about the cottage, sir, but I suspect you're not interested.

  Col. Lloyd : The cottage?

  Walker : Yes, sir. Someone's moved into it.

  Col. Lloyd : Walker! Confound you, why don't you let me know when things are going on around here? Who's moving into the cottage?

  Walker : I don't know, sir.

  Col. Lloyd : It's been empty a long time now, ever since - well, maybe I'd better call on our new neighbors and see what kind of folks they are.

  Walker : Yes, sir. Having some new neighbors won't make it so lonely 'round here.

  Col. Lloyd : Who says it's lonely 'round here?

  Walker : Not me, no sir!

  Col. Lloyd : Anyway, I like it lonely!

• Walker : Looky here, how is Miss Elizabeth?

  Becky Porter : Oh, her health is all right, but I think she worries 'bout Mister Jack. He better come home pretty soon.

  Walker : What you mean, you ain't got no m -

  [Becky shushes him and points to Lloyd] 

  Walker : Uh... M-O-N-I-E?

  Becky Porter : Not only that, we's 'most outta F-U-D-E.

  Walker : Well, looky here, couldn't the K-U-N-E-L give a little L-O-N-E?

  Becky Porter : You know Miss Elizabeth wouldn't take nothin' from him. Why, before she'd do that, she'd go to the, uh... the... P-O-H-O-S.

  [Walker stops walking and stares at her] 

  Walker : P-O-H-O-S?

  Becky Porter : Yeah, sure, ain't you got no education? The poorhouse!

  Walker : Oh, no.

  Becky Porter : Yes, indeed.

• Col. Lloyd : Maria, I've got a young lady here whose clothes need drying.

  Maria : Yes, sir?

  Col. Lloyd : Well, take her!

  Maria : But Colonel sir, what can I put her in while her clothes is a-dryin'? I ain't got nothin' for a little girl to wear.

  Col. Lloyd : Uh, Walker, go up into the attic, and you'll find a small trunk. There may be some clothes in there that will fit Miss Lloyd.

  Walker : A small trunk in the attic, sir?

  Col. Lloyd : Yes, you numbskull! Don't you understand English? Attend to it right away.

  [the Colonel leaves] 

  Walker : Do you know whose trunk that is and whose clothes they is?

  Maria : Course I do. You go on now and fetch them things. We don't want no menfolk 'round here.

  Walker : With that face, you don't have to worry!

• Col. Lloyd : Walker, I want you to go to town on Saturday and buy a lot of little girls clothes.

  Walker : What shall I buy, sir?

  Col. Lloyd : Well, what do you suppose? Hats, shoes, stockings, dresses, and whatever goes under the dresses. And Walker?

  Walker : Yes, sir?

  Col. Lloyd : I'm an old fool.

  Walker : Yes, sir!

• Walker : Miss Lloyd, where you going?

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : I'm going home to Mother. She loves me, even if my clothes are old and ugly.

  Walker : Why, Miss Lloyd, the colonel loves you, too. It's just because his rheumatism's botherin' him that he's so cranky. My, my, you should hear the things he says. They'd make your hair curl.

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : Would they really make my hair curl?

  Walker : Sure would, Miss Lloyd. Look what they did to mine. Come on, now.

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : I don't want to go up there.

  Walker : Why, everybody's got to go upstairs, Miss Lloyd, if they wants to go to bed.

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : But I don't want to.

  Walker : Look here, will you go if I shows you a new way how to go upstairs?

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : How can there be a new way to go upstairs?

• Col. Lloyd : Confound you, Walker! Watch what you're doing!

  Walker : I'm sorry, sir.

  Col. Lloyd : If you'd broken that, I'd have broken your head.

  Walker : Yes, sir.

  Dr. Scott : Someday your temper is going to split you wide open.

  Col. Lloyd : Well, I won't call for you to sew me up!

• Walker : Looks like this old house ain't gonna be lonesome no more.

• Miss Lloyd Sherman : Mom Beck?

  Becky Porter : What, honey?

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : What's a poorhouse?

  Becky Porter : Oh, that's the place where they send people who got no money.

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : Is it nice?

  Becky Porter : No, honey. It's a terrible place. The people there wear rags, and all they get to eat is corn dodgers out of tin pans.

  Miss Lloyd Sherman : Then I don't want my mother to have to go there.

  Becky Porter : Oh, why, honey child, your mother won't never have to go to no poorhouse. We wouldn't let that happen, would we, Brother Walker?

  Walker : I should say not.

  Becky Porter : Now don't you worry your pretty little head about things like that. The Lord always provides.

  Walker : Amen!