The Abominable Dr. Phibes - The Final Curse and Its Implications
Dr. Vesalius:
That still leaves the final curse.
Sgt. Schenley:
Darkness.
Inspector Trout:
Well he'll be working on it wherever he is.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes - Divine Guidance in a Quest for Vengeance
Dr. Vesalius:
God's sake!
Dr. Phibes:
Don't cry upon God, Dr. Vesalius. He is on my side! He led me, showed me the way in my quest for vengeance.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes - Confrontation Between Life and Death
Dr. Vesalius:
Your wife, no, Phibes, but you I will kill!
Dr. Phibes:
But you can't, Doctor: I-AM-AL-REA-DY... DEAD.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes - Desperation and Accusation in Crisis
Dr. Phibes:
Work faster, Doctor! The acid is descending! My wife existed only six minutes on the operating table, and then she was dead. You murdered her...
Dr. Vesalius:
No!
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes - A Sinister Bargain for Life
Dr. Phibes:
You will see your son under circumstances which may bring back memories to you.
Dr. Vesalius:
What is it you want?
Dr. Phibes:
The skill of your hands, Doctor. I am giving your son the same chance that my wife had. You need not be alarmed. He has already been anaesthetized.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes - A Desperate Bargain for Life
Dr. Vesalius:
I'm going alone. Perhaps he'll trade my life for my son's.
Inspector Trout:
If you think you can reason with him, then you're as mad as he is!
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes - The Challenge of Stopping a Methodical Killer
Dr. Vesalius:
Human error won't stop him.
Inspector Trout:
Why? Wha'chu mean?
Dr. Vesalius:
He's had years to hide, to plot this damnable thing. He's compelling himself to follow exactly the classic death pattern of the G'tach. It's the psychic force that holds that man together, this maniacal precision. If we could just throw it off, interrupt the cycle, then he might be stopped by his own inflexible standards.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes - A Countdown to Vengeance Unfolds
Dr. Phibes: [on phone to Vesalius, after kidnapping his son]
Nine killed her; nine shall die!
Dr. Vesalius:
Is that you, Phibes? Phibes! Phibes!
Dr. Phibes:
Eight have died, soon to be nine! Nine eternities in doom!
Dr. Vesalius:
Phibes, I must see you. Where are you, Phibes? I must speak... PHIBES! WHERE IS MY SON, PHIBES?
Dr. Phibes:
The organ plays till midnight! The large house in Maldene Square. Come alone!
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes - Confrontation of Guilt and Responsibility
Dr. Phibes:
I will have killed nine times in my life, Dr. Vesalius; how many murders can be attributed to you?
Dr. Vesalius:
None, for I did not kill your wife!
Dr. Phibes:
No?
Dr. Vesalius:
I tried to save her...
Dr. Phibes:
With a knife in your hands? Doctor, I have no faith in your profession! I was told, after my crash that I would never speak again. The doctors were, of course, wrong, for as you see and can hear, I have used my knowledge of music and acoustics to re-create my voice!
Dr. Vesalius:
You don't need to remind me of your ingenuity, Dr. Phibes... WHERE IS MY SON?
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Journey into Fear - The Nature of War Explained
Colonel Haki:
You can cable her when you stop at Trabzon. "C'est la guerre.
Howard Graham:
What?
Colonel Haki:
War is war.
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Journey into Fear - Discovering Freedom Through Socialism and Marriage
Matthews:
Has your wife got a bad temper, Mr. Graham?
Howard Graham:
No, very good.
Matthews:
You're lucky. For years I lived in misery. Then one day I made a great discovery. There was a socialist meeting and I went to it. I wasn't a socialist, understand, I went to this meeting because I was curious. The speaker was good. Then a week later we went out with some friends, and I repeated what I heard. My wife laughed in a very peculiar way, and when I got home, I made a discovery. I found out my wife was a snob, and even more stupid than I dreamed. She said that I humiliated her by saying such things as if I believed them. And all her friends were respectable people, and I mustn't speak as if I was a working man. She wept! Then I knew that I was free. Mr. Graham, I bought books and pamphlets to make my arguments more damaging. My wife became very docile. She even cooked things I liked, just so I wouldn't disgrace her.
Howard Graham:
I see. So, you don't believe these things you say?
Matthews:
No. That's where my little joke comes in. Mr. Graham, for awhile I was free, then a terrible thing happened. I found I began to believe these things that I said. These books I read showed me that I'd found a truth. I, a capitalist by instinct, became a socialist by conviction. Worse than that, there was a strike at the factory, and I, the manager, supported the strikers! I didn't belong to a union, naturally, and so I was dismissed. It was ridiculous! So here I am. I've become a man in my home at the price of becoming a bore outside.
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Journey into Fear - The Art of Persuasion in Conversation
Prof. Haller:
He interests me, this Kuvetli. He has a way of talking without saying anything.
Howard Graham:
Maybe it's got something to do with his being a salesman.
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Journey into Fear - Authority and Decision-Making in Conflict
Howard Graham:
Oh, I don't know. That's quite a decision!
Colonel Haki:
Graham, I'm not asking you to decide anything, I'm telling you what you must do.
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Journey into Fear - Unexpected Gift of a Loaded Gun
Kopeikin: [Seeing Graham off at dockside]
Oh, by the way, have you a gun in your luggage?
Howard Graham:
I haven't any luggage!
Kopeikin: [Pulls out a loaded revolver and hands it to Graham]
Then, uh, you better take this. I picked it up on the way to see your wife. It is completely loaded.
Howard Graham:
Well, I don't need this!
Kopeikin:
Put it in your pocket. It will make you feel nicer to have it.
Howard Graham:
I never fired one of these things, you know?
Kopeikin: [laughs]
That's a good one, Howard... You're a ballistics expert, and you never fired a gun!
Howard Graham:
Well, I just never did.
Kopeikin:
It's very simple. You just point it and pull the trigger.
Howard Graham:
Oh, I know how it works.
Kopeikin:
Take it with you anyway.
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Journey into Fear - Reflections on Age and Change
Prof. Haller: [Standing at the ship's railing, looking into the distance]
Won't you join me, Mr. Graham? I'm just getting some fresh air.
Howard Graham:
Oh...
Prof. Haller:
To see the land from a ship, or to see a ship from the land, I used to like both, but now I dislike both. When a man reaches my age, he grows, I think, to resent subconsciously the movement of everything except the respiratory muscles which keep him alive. Movement is change. And to an old man, change means death.
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Niagara - Memories of a Popular Waitress
George Loomis:
I met her in a beer hall. She was the most popular waitress they ever had.
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Niagara - Missed Opportunities in Communication
George Loomis:
Too bad, they can't play it for you now, Rose.
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Niagara - Reflections on Independence and Existence
George Loomis:
Why should the Falls drag me down here at 5 o'clock in the morning? To show me how big they are and how small I am? To remind me they can get along without any help? All right, so they've proved it. But why not? They've had ten thousand years to get independent. What's so wonderful about that? I suppose I could too, only it might take a little more time.
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Shadow of a Doubt - A Difficult Decision for Family Well-being
Uncle Charlie: [The train begins moving faster, but he seizes her as she panics and tries to break away.]
Charlie, just a minute. I want you to know I think you were right to make me leave. It's best for your mother. Best for all of us. You saw what happened to her last night. She's not very strong, you know. I don't think she could stand the shock. I remember once when she was a little girl... No, listen Charlie, I want you to forget all about me. Forget that I ever came to Santa Rosa.
Charlie:
Your hands! Let me go, Uncle Charlie. Let me go.
Uncle Charlie: [He lifts her off the ground - her legs dangle in the air.]
I've got to do this, Charlie, so long as you know what you do about me. Not yet, Charlie, let it get a little faster! Just a little faster! Faster! Now!
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Shadow of a Doubt - Desire for Stability and Family Connection
Charlie:
When are you leaving, Uncle Charlie?
Uncle Charlie:
Oh come now, Charlie. That other business - it's all over. I'd like to forget it. We're all happy here.
Charlie:
When are you leaving?
Uncle Charles:
I'm not going, you see. Not yet, I'm not going. I want to settle down. Live in a place where people know me. Have some money in the bank, some sort of business. Be a part of this family.
Charlie:
Oh, I see.
Uncle Charlie:
The most sensible thing for you to do is to be friends with me. I can do a lot for you, Charlie. A lot for all of you.
Charlie:
No, not you. We don't want anything from you. I wish I'd told my mother about you. I wish I had.
Uncle Charlie:
Oh, I know what you've been thinking. How do you think your mother would have felt? What would it do to her now? How about your father's job at the bank? What would become of all of you if everything came out?
Charlie:
I know. You needn't be afraid. I can't tell them.
Uncle Charlie:
I'm not afraid, Charlie. What would you tell? Who would believe you? A waltz runs through your head. You don't like the initials in a ring and you connect it all up with a newspaper clipping. And now you haven't even got the ring. I don't know what became of it.
Charlie:
You have it.
Uncle Charlie:
I? I gave it to you.
Charlie:
I don't want you here, Uncle Charlie. I don't want you to touch my mother. So go away, I'm warning you. Go away or I'll kill you myself. See, that's the way I feel about you.
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Shadow of a Doubt - Secrets and Suspicion Among Family Members
Uncle Charlie:
Well, Charlie?
Charlie:
Well?
Uncle Charlie:
You think you know something, don't you? That young fellow told you something.
Charlie:
Yes. Why should he know something about you?
Uncle Charlie: [He takes Charlie's hand and she pulls away]
Now look, Charlie, something's come between us. I don't want that to happen. Why, we're old friends. More than that. We're like twins. You said so yourself.
Charlie:
Don't touch me Uncle Charlie.
Uncle Charlie:
What did he tell you? What did that boy tell you?
Charlie:
It's got nothing to do with it. I hope he never knows anything about you.
Uncle Charlie: [pause]
Charlie, you're a pretty understanding sort of girl. You've heard some little things about me. I guess you're a woman of the world enough to overlook them. You're the head of your family, Charlie, anyone can see that. I'm not so old. I've been chasing around the globe since I was sixteen. I guess I've done some pretty foolish things. And some pretty foolish mistakes. Nothing serious, just foolish. Aw, Charlie now, don't start imagining things.
Charlie:
How could you do such things? You're my uncle, my mother's brother. We thought you were the most wonderful man in the world. The most wonderful and the best.
Uncle Charlie:
Charlie, what do you know?
Louise: [places drinks on the table]
I'm sorry I was so long with these. Whose is it? Ain't it beautiful. I'd just die for a ring like that. Yes sir, for a ring like that, I'd just about die. I love jewelry, real jewelry. You notice I didn't even have to ask if it was real? You can tell...I can.
Uncle Charlie:
Bring me another brandy.
Uncle Charlie:
Sit down. Sit down. You think you know something, don't you? You think you're the clever little girl who knows something. There's so much you don't know. So much. What do you know, really? You're just an ordinary little girl living in an ordinary little town. You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there's nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day and at night you sleep your untroubled, ordinary little sleep filled with peaceful, stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares! Or did I, or was it a silly inexpert little lie. You live in a dream. You're a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie! Use your wits. Learn something.
Uncle Charlie:
Charlie, will you help me?
Charlie:
Help you?
Uncle Charlie:
The same blood flows through our veins, Charlie. A week ago, I was at the end of my rope. Oh, I'm so tired, Charlie. There's an end to the running a man can do. You'll never know what it's like to be so tired. I was going to- well, then I got the idea of coming out here. It's my last chance, Charlie. Give it to me! Graham and the other fellow, they don't know. There's a man in the East. They suspect him too. And if they get him, I-- Charlie, give me this last chance.
Charlie:
Take your chance. Go.
Uncle Charlie:
I'll go, Charlie, I'll go. Just give me a few days. Think of your mother. It'll kill your mother.
Charlie:
Yes, it would kill my mother. Oh, take your few days. See that you get away from here.
Uncle Charlie:
Do you realize what it will mean if they get me? The electric chair. Charlie, you've got to help me. I count on you. You said yourself we're no ordinary uncle and niece, no matter what I've done.
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Shadow of a Doubt - Perceptions of Women in Society's Shadows
Uncle Charlie:
Women keep busy in towns like this. In the cities it's different. The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. Then they die and leave their money to their wives. Their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money. Proud of their jewelry but of nothing else. Horrible, faded, fat, greedy women.
Charlie:
They're alive! They're human beings!
Uncle Charlie:
Are they? Are they, Charlie? Are they human or are they fat wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?
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Shadow of a Doubt - The Risks of Carrying Cash While Traveling
Uncle Charlie:
I got in the habit of carrying a lot of cash with me when I was traveling.
Mr. Green:
Dangerous habit, Mr. Oakley.
Uncle Charlie:
Never lost a penny in my life, Mr. Green. I guess heaven takes care of fools and scoundrels.
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Shadow of a Doubt - Uncle Charlie's Reluctance Toward Photographs
Uncle Charlie:
I've never been photographed in my life and I don't want to be.
Emma:
But Charles, how can you talk that way? I had a photograph of you. I gave it to Charlie.
Uncle Charlie:
I tell you there are none.
Emma:
I guess you've forgotten this one...It was taken the Christmas you got your bicycle, just before your accident.
Charlie:
Uncle Charlie, you were beautiful!
Emma:
Wasn't he, though? And such a quiet boy, always reading. I always said Papa never should have bought you that bicycle. You didn't know how to handle it. Charlie, he took it right out on the icy road and skidded into a streetcar. We thought he was going to die.
Charlie:
I'm glad he didn't.
Emma:
Well he almost did. He fractured his skull. And he was laid up so long. And then - when he was getting well, there was no holding him. It was just as though all the rest he had was, well, too much for him, and he had to get into mischief to blow off steam. He didn't do much reading after that, let me tell you. It was taken the very day he had his accident. And then a few days later, when the pictures came home, how Mama cried. She wondered if he'd ever look the same. She wondered if he'd ever be the same.
Uncle Charlie:
What's the use of looking backward? What's the use of looking ahead? Today's the thing. That's my philosophy. Today.
Emma:
Well, if today is the thing, then you'd better finish your breakfast and get down to the bank because Joe will be waiting.
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Shadow of a Doubt - Uncovering Hidden Truths in Family Bonds
Charlie:
I can't explain it but you came here and Mother's so happy and I'm glad that she named me after you and that she thinks we're both alike. I think we are too. I know it. It would spoil things if you should give me anything.
Uncle Charlie:
You're a strange girl, Charlie. Why would it spoil things?
Charlie:
Because we're not just an uncle and a niece. It's something else. I know you. I know that you don't tell people a lot of things. I don't either. I have the feeling that inside you somewhere, there's something nobody knows about.
Uncle Charlie:
Something nobody knows?
Charlie:
Something secret and wonderful and - I'll find it out.
Uncle Charlie:
It's not good to find out too much, Charlie.
Charlie:
But we're sorta like twins, don't you see? We have to know.
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Citizen Kane - Perceptions of Beauty in Nursing
Jedediah Leland:
You know, when I was a young man there used to be an impression around that nurses were pretty. Well, it was no truer then than it is today.
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Citizen Kane - The Pursuit of Love in Life
Jedediah Leland:
He married for love. Love. That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough, he wanted all the voters to love him too. Guess all he really wanted out of life was love. That's Charlie's story, how he lost it. You see, he just didn't have any to give. Well, he loved Charlie Kane of course, very dearly, and his mother. I guess he always loved her.
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Citizen Kane - Reflections on Charlie Kane's Inner Life
Jedediah Leland:
I suppose he had some private sort of greatness, but he kept it to himself. He never gave himself away. He never gave anything away, he just left you a tip, hmm? Ha. He had a generous mind. I don't suppose anybody ever had so many opinions. But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life. I suppose he died without one. It must have been pretty unpleasant. Of course, a lot of us check out without having any special convictions about death, but we do know what we believe in, we do believe in something.
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Citizen Kane - Value of Important Documents
Jedediah Leland: [referring to Kane's 'Declaration of Principles']
I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myself. I have a hunch it might turn out to be something pretty important, a document, like the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, and my first report card at school.
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Citizen Kane - The Burden of Memory
Jedediah Leland:
I can remember everything. That's my curse, young man. It's the greatest curse that's ever been inflicted on the human race: memory.
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