So that your friends can drink chocolate with their breakfast in New Orleans
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Christopher Leiningen:
[showing Joanna various parts of his cocoa plantation]
Without these locks, my whole plantation would be six feet under the river - where I got it from. Christopher Leiningen:
[continues]
It took me five years to get a foothold here. I started with 20 acres and four men. I nearly forgot the English language in that time. I was 19 years old. Christopher Leiningen:
[continues]
My irrigation moat. Built by men who had never seen one in their lives. I had a hundred men by that time. I used to lose two or three a week. Headhunters. Christopher Leiningen:
[holding up a handful of harvested cocoa beans]
And this is what we get. Eight hundred Indians working for me on nearly 200,000 acres of river bottom. Eaten by flies, worms, lice... a half-a-dozen diseases men get in the jungle. All for that: so that your friends can drink chocolate with their breakfast in New Orleans
[showing Joanna various parts of his cocoa plantation]
Without these locks, my whole plantation would be six feet under the river - where I got it from. Christopher Leiningen:
[continues]
It took me five years to get a foothold here. I started with 20 acres and four men. I nearly forgot the English language in that time. I was 19 years old. Christopher Leiningen:
[continues]
My irrigation moat. Built by men who had never seen one in their lives. I had a hundred men by that time. I used to lose two or three a week. Headhunters. Christopher Leiningen:
[holding up a handful of harvested cocoa beans]
And this is what we get. Eight hundred Indians working for me on nearly 200,000 acres of river bottom. Eaten by flies, worms, lice... a half-a-dozen diseases men get in the jungle. All for that: so that your friends can drink chocolate with their breakfast in New Orleans
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Without these my whole plantation would be six feet under the river
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where I got it from
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It took me five years to get a foothold here
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I started with 20 acres and four men
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I nearly forgot the English language in that time I was 19 years old
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My irrigation moats built by men who'd never seen one in their lives
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I had 100 men by that time used to lose two or three a week
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Headhunters
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This is what we get
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800 Indians working for me and nearly 200 000 acres of river bottom
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Eaten by flies worms lice and half a dozen diseases men get from the jungle
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All for that
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So that your friends can drink chocolate with their breakfast in New Orleans
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Movie Summary
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
Actors
Christopher Leiningen
