13/07/2025
J. Carrol Naish, whose best film lines were surely from Sahara, in which he plays an Italian POW who gives a famous anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist speech, entirely relevant today in the US:
"Mussolini is not so clever like Hi**er, he can dress up his Italians only to look like thieves, cheats, murderers, he cannot like Hi**er make them feel like that. He cannot like Hi**er scrape from their conscience the knowledge right is right and wrong is wrong, or dig holes in their heads to plant his own Ten Commandments- Steal from thy neighbor, Cheat thy neighbor, Kill thy neighbor! But are my eyes blind that I must fall to my knees to worship a maniac who has made of my country a concentration camp, who has made of my people slaves? Must I kiss the hand that beats me, lick the boot that kicks me? NO!"
The photo is a publicity still from Captain Blood in which the actor plays Cahusac, Levasseur's lieutenant (or quartermaster, if you want to be historically accurate).
