Duane Jones Biography
Duane L. Jones (February 2, 1936 – July 22, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his role as Ben in the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead. He was director of the Maguire Theater at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. He was the artistic director of the Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art in Manhattan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Duane Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Duane Jones Quotes
Preparing for Defense and Escape
Ben: [to Tom]
Judy, I need you to find some bedspreads or sheets to tear up into small strips, okay? Is there a fruit cellar here?
Tom:
Yes.
Ben:
We need some bottles or jars to make Molotov cocktails to hold them off while we try to escape.
Tom:
Hey, There's a big can of kerosene down there.
Judy:
I'll see what I can find.
Tom:
I'll look for the bottles.
Harry:
There's a big key ring down there. There may be a key to the gas pump on it.
Tom: [goes down in the cellar]
I'll check.
Ben:
We can toss the cocktails from a window upstairs. Meantime, some of us can go out and try to get the gas, then we can come back for the rest of the people.
Harry:
But that'll leave a door open someplace.
Ben:
Yeah, that's right. It better be this door. It's closer to the truck. Before we go out, we'll put some supplies behind the cellar door. While we're gone, the rest of you can hole up in there.
Tom:
I found some fruit jars in the cellar. And there's a key on here that's labeled for the gas pump out back.
Ben:
I'm not really that used to the truck. I found it abandoned.
Tom:
I can handle the truck, no sweat.
Ben: [to Harry]
You're it, then. You and I'll go. We'll put whatever lumber we find behind the cellar door. You can go upstairs and toss the cocktails from a window. Tom, you and I will have to unboard this door. After you toss the cocktails, you hustle back down here and lock this door. It's no good to board it up because we'll have to get back in quickly. After we get the gas and get back into the house, then we'll worry about getting everybody into the truck. Now, let's move it.
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