The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

Basil Rathbone: Pontius Pilate

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• Pontius Pilate : My boy, I've heard such ideas, a long time ago. They are dreams - beautiful dreams, I know, but dreams nonetheless.

  Flavius, as a Man : Was it a dream that once I knew a man who said "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?

  Marcus : There never was such a man, I tell you.

  Pontius Pilate : Don't lie to him, Marcus. There was such a man.

  Flavius, as a Man : What happened to him?

  Pontius Pilate : I crucified Him.

• Pontius Pilate : I am innocent of the blood of this just man.

• Pontius Pilate : [carelessly, after Marcus has thanked him for a payment]  What have I done/

  [Suddenly stricken with guilt] 

  Pontius Pilate : What have I done?

  Marcus : Excellency!

  Pontius Pilate : Forgive me. I am not myself. Just now I have been forced to condemn a Man. Poor Man, I found no fault in Him. But I must try to keep the peace.

• Marcus : He still believes in things.

  Pontius Pilate : And you and I are wiser? Perhaps... What is truth?