The Cossacks (1928 film) Quotes

The Cossacks (1928 film) is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . The Cossacks stopped airing in 1970.

It features William Axt in charge of musical score, and Percy Hilburn (*:fr:Percy Hilburn) as head of cinematography.

The Cossacks (1928 film) is recorded in Silent film (English intertitles) and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Cossacks (1928 film) is 74 min long. The Cossacks (1928 film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Renée Adorée as Maryana, Russ Powell as Cossack, Ernest Torrence as Ivan, John Gilbert as Lukashka, Nils Asther as Prince Olenin Stieshneff, and Joseph Mari as Turk.

The Cossacks (1928 film) Quotes

John Gilbert as Lukashka

• (John Gilbert) "Put goose grease on your bruises, father; tomorrow we ride against the Turk."

• (John Gilbert) "Kneel, ugly barbarian; kneel to the highly civilized brother of the Sun and the Moon."
• (Joseph Mari) "Grovel, benighted old infidel; - grovel and beg mercy of the pious Crescent."

• (John Gilbert) "Since when has the Tsar's anger mattered to a Cossack?"
• (Ernest Torrence) "Well spoken, my son; your father rides with you. I could never stomach that lily nose from Moscow, anyhow."

• (John Gilbert) "That old pelican -- with the cushion on his head -- is he the Sultan, father?"
• (Ernest Torrence) "No, my son -- that greasy person is only the Great Scullion's pot-boy -- the Wazir."

• (John Gilbert) "Maryana. Come play with me;."
• (Renée Adorée) "Always you want to play. I am a woman now; you are a man."

• (John Gilbert) "I don't understand women; and thank the Holy Father I don't - --"

• (John Gilbert) "Vodka; and women.; Gypsy music; Gypsy women."

• (John Gilbert) "What are years? I am the same Lukashka; you are are the same Maryana;. The woods are full of wild lilies; and I know a brook where a turtle lives."

• (John Gilbert) "The smell of blood -- is not so bad."

Renée Adorée as Maryana

• (Renée Adorée) "Cossack love is pig love.; I want none of it."

• (Renée Adorée) "Work; work; work. Is there nothing in life but work?"
• (Ulitka - Maryana's Mother) "Work and a man.; what else could there be?"

• (Renée Adorée) "When I marry; - I marry a Cossack."
• (Nils Asther) "Marry a Cossack?; work like a field beast; lose your loveliness; grow old; ?"
• (Renée Adorée) "Cossacks never grow old. They live; - and they die."

• (Renée Adorée) "Blessed Lord, make Lukashka brave. Let him kill a Turk; - perhaps two Turks --"

• (Renée Adorée) "Why aren't you like other men?; - why don't you fight?"
• (John Gilbert) "Why smell myself up with blood; when I can look into your eyes?"
• (Renée Adorée) "My uncle's son is not your age; but already he has killed ten Turks."
• (John Gilbert) "Your uncle's son can't kiss as I can."

Ernest Torrence as Ivan

• (Ernest Torrence) "We draw near to; vodka."
• (John Gilbert) "And to; women."
• (Russ Powell) "Vodka first; women later."

• (Ernest Torrence) "Our bellies are a desert. Our tongues dry up. Vodka for all."

• (Ernest Torrence) "Tell the greasy lizard eater we obey the Tsar; but we still think he was descended from a she goat."

• (Ernest Torrence) "We'll slit every unbelieving throat that gurgles in these mountains."
• (Ernest Torrence) "Now to prayer."

• (Ernest Torrence) "Peace is for old women and sheep. Shall our eyes drown in fat? Shall our bellies roll over our knees?"

Nils Asther as Prince Olenin Stieshneff

• (Nils Asther) "Maryana, the time has come to tell you why I'm here -- I am to take you back to Moscow as my bride -- The Little Father at Moscow wishes to blend the bloods of his people -- I have chosen you."

• (Nils Asther) "Think of it, Koozma -- the Little Father has ordered me to marry one of these turnip women; -."

Russ Powell as Cossack

• (Russ Powell) "Our Ataman is strong and brave; yet he is cursed with a son like that. There he sits.; Lukashka, the woman man.; - the man who will not fight;."

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