Goodbye Uncle Tom

1971 · 136 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 1,922 VOTES · DIR. Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi

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Overview

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,415 lines

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00:01:42 We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a shocking piece of news
00:09:25 So many things fed that fire. But this land is still mine.
00:13:51 Until then, keep yourself cool.'
00:18:40 What would His Holiness say?
00:22:31 Dysentery depreciated the merchandise, so in order to keep it from buyers
00:29:00 will be exterminated with the total destruction of their natural habitat.
00:36:42 When the convoys reached the sugarcane and cotton mills
00:44:47 Excuse me, ma'am, where is the church at Turner Bridge?
00:51:28 While Bishop Polk, the same one who later became a Confederate general
00:56:44 And you, will you stop plucking those feathers!
01:01:34 The boom goes on.
01:05:23 but already that white God, who promised a heaven with no slaves
01:12:39 Protest is an ugly fad word, like Negro-ness.
01:17:06 It seems impossible. How did they end up like this?
01:22:52 The Ausa are more graceful, but more fragile.
01:27:05 Hey, white men, you can look, but don't touch.
01:32:32 Caesar, Caesar, you've done it again.
01:37:08 Just like the first cigar.
01:40:43 If I take my dress off, I don't smell.
01:45:35 So I got up my courage and transformed the plantation into a stud farm.
01:48:44 With the new stallions Auze and Mandico that I bought three years ago
01:52:28 These stallions! Just let them catch the scent of a female!
01:59:36 "After the murder of the Travis family
02:06:06 She ran faster than I did.

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Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,415
Dialogue density10.4 lines / min
First line00:01:42
Final line02:06:06

Production Record

DirectorGualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
LanguageItalian
IMDb votes1,922