Last Words of Fictional Characters
Jarrett to My Baby
Jarrett, Cody (actor - James Cagney)
"Made it Ma!  Top of the World!"
Movie:  White Heat, 1949
For more information: 
White Heat at Greatest Films
Recommended viewing:
White Heat starring James Cagney

 
Jekyll, Doctor Henry
"Will Hyde die upon the scaffold? or will he find the courage to release himself at the last
moment?  God knows; I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself.  Here, then, as I lay down the pen, and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end."
Novel:  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
For more information: 
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, e-text version
Recommended reading:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

 
Johnnie
"Turn me over doctor,
Turn me over slow,
I got a bullet in my left hand side,
Great God, it's hurtin' me so.
I was her man, but I done her wrong."
Song: The Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie, traditional
For more information: 
Frankie and Johnnie by Thomas Hart Benton

 
Juliet, daughter to Capulet
Yea noise?  then I'll be brief.  O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.
Play:  Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, 1591?
For more information: 
The Works of the Bard
Mr. William Shakespeare on the Internet
Recommended reading:
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet: The Contemporary Film
Recommended viewing: 
Romeo and Juliet starring Olivia Hussey not Leonardo Dicaprio
West Side Story starring Natalie Wood
Romeo and Juliet starring Leonardo Dicaprio
Recommended listening:
West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Romeo and Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture (1996) 

 
Kane, Charles Foster (actor - Orson Welles)
"Rosebud"
Movie:  Citizen Kane, 1941
For more information: 
Citizen Kane at Greatest Movies
Recommended viewing:
Citizen Kane directed by and starring Orson Welles 

 
Karenina, Anna
"Where am I?  What am I doing?  What for? . . .  Lord, forgive me all!'
Novel:  Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, 1875-77
For more information: 
Anna Karenina, e-text version
Recommended reading:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Recommended viewing:
Anna Karenina starring Greta Garbo

 
Katczinsky "Kat"
"Let us go on."
Novel:  All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1928 
Movie:  All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930
For more information: 
All Quiet On the Western Front, includes e-text version of the novel 
All Quiet on the Western Front at Greatest Movies
Recommended reading:
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich maria Remarque
Recommended viewing:
All Quiet on the Western Front starring Lew Ayres

 
Kelly, Midge (Actor - Kirk Douglas)
"Listen, I won a fight!  For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. . . .  Are you deaf; couldn't you hear them?  We're not hitchhiking anymore. . . .we're riding.  Those fat bellies with the big cigars, they aren't going to make a monkey out of me. . . .  I can beat them--you know I can beat them. . . .  Tommy!"
Movie: Champion, 1949
Recommended viewing;
Champion starring Kirk Douglas

 
Kong, Major T. J. "King," (actor - Slim Pickins)
"Yahoo!  Yahoo!"
Movie:  Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964
For more information: 
Dr. Strangelove at Greatest Movies
Recommended viewing:
Dr. Strangelove starring Peter Sellers

 
Kurtz, Mr.
"The horror!  The horror!"
Novel:  Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) 1902
For more information: 
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Campfire Chat
Heart of Darkness, an e-text version
Recommended reading:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

 
Kurtz, Colonel Walter E. (actor - Marlon Brando)
"The horror!  The horror!"
Movie:  Apocalypse Now, 1979
For more information: 
Apocalypse Now at Greatest Movies
Recommended viewing:
Apocalypse Now starring Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando 

 
Macbeth
Yet I will try the last:  before my body
I throw my warlike shield:  layon, Macduff;
And damn'd be him that first cries "Hold, enough!"
Play:  Macbeth, William Shakespeare, 1606?
For more information: 
The Works of the Bard
Mr. William Shakespeare on the Internet

 
Magua
"The palefaces are dogs! the Delawares women!  Magua leaves them on the rocks, for the crows!"
Novel:  The Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper, 1826
For more information: 
The Last of the Mohicans, e-text version at The americanliterature.com Library
Recommended reading:
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper 
Recommended viewing:
The Last of the Mohicans starring Daniel-Day Lewis

 
Maule, Matthew
"God, God will give him blood to drink!"
Novel:  The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
For more information: 
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables, e-text version at The americanliterature.com Library
Recommended reading:
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

 
Messala (actor - Stephen Boyd)
In the movie:  "What do you think you see?  The smashed body of a wretched animal!  Is enough of a man still left here for you to hate? Let me help you. . . .  You think they're dead. Your mother and sister. Dead. And the race over.  It isn't over Judah. They're not dead.  Look for them in the Valley of the Lepers, if you can recognize them.  It goes on.  It goes on Judah.  The race, the race is not over."
In the novel:  Messala does not die
Movie:  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 1959 
Novel:  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, General Lew Wallace, 1880
For more information: 
Ben-Hur at Greatest Movies
Ben-Hur, an e-text version
Recommended reading:
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
Recommended viewing:
Ben-Hur starring Charlton Heston

 
Miles
"It's he? . . . .  Peter Quint--You devil! . . . .  Where?"
Novelette: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
For more information:
The Turn of the Screw (e-text)
Recommended reading:
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

 
Miller, Captain John (actor - Tom Hanks)
"Earned it."
Movie:  Saving Private Ryan, 1998
For more information:
Imagining D-Day: the history behind Saving Private Ryan
Recommended viewing:
Saving Private Ryan starring Tom Hanks

 
Munro, Cora
"I will go no further! . . .  Kill me if thou wilt, detestable Huron, I will go no further. . . .  I am thine, do with me as thou seest best."
Novel:  The Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper, 1826
For more information: 
The Last of the Mohicans, e-text version at The americanliterature.com Library
Recommended reading:
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper 
Recommended viewing:
The Last of the Mohicans starring Daniel-Day Lewis

 
My Baby
"Hold me, darling, for a little while."
Song: Last Kiss sung by J. Frank Wilson
Almost recommended listening:
The Last Kiss Sessions sung by J. Frank Wilson
 
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