Greatest Last Film Lines
1940s
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Film Title
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Famous Last Lines
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Brother Orchid (1940)
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- "Brothers. There is good cause to be thankful
this morning. I have just received the good news that there is no longer
a Protective Association and that we may again sell our flowers in
the city. How this was accomplished, I cannot tell you. All I know
is that Brother Orchid gave me his word it would be done and it was
done. As you know, Brother Orchid is no longer among us. He has chosen
the outside world. And none of us is wise enough to say that we are
right and he is wrong. All we can do in our humble way is to wish him
the utmost of health and the happiness and throughout our -- Brother
Orchid. Have you changed your mind?"
- "Yeah. Brother Superior, all my life I'm such a guy that was
lookin' for class. I once went halfway around the world tryin' to find it,
cause I thought that class came in dough and nice clothes and society. Well,
I was wrong. I sure traveled a long way to find out one thing: This, this
is the real class."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Brother Orchid](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
A Chump at Oxford (1940)
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- "Hey Ollie! Ollie! (whimpering) Aren't
you going to take me with you?"
- "Stan! You know me!"
- "Of course I know you. What's the matter? You got one of
those dizzy spells?" |
Edison, The Man (1940)
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"What man's mind can conceive, man's character
can control. Man must learn that, and then we needn't be afraid of
tomorrow. And man will go forward toward more light." |
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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"That's what makes us tough. Rich fellas come
up an' they die an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But
we keep a-comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out.
They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever,
Pa.
..
'cause... we're the people."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Grapes of Wrath](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Great Dictator (1940)
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"...By the promise of these things, brutes
have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise.
They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!
Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the
world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with
hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where
science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in
the name of democracy, let us all unite! (Cheers) Hannah, can
you hear me? Wherever you are, look up, Hannah! The clouds are lifting!
The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into
the light! We are coming into a new world, a kindlier world, where
men will rise above their hate, their greed and brutality. Look up,
Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning
to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope! Into
the future, the glorious future that belongs to you, to me, and to
all of us. Look up, Hannah! Look up!"
Play clips (excerpt): (short) (extended) |
His Girl Friday (1940)
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- (To Duffy on phone) "We're gonna get married."
- "Oh. Can we go on a honeymoon
this time, Walter?"
- "Sure. Hey, Duffy, you can be managing editor. Naw, naw, not permanently.
Just for the two weeks we're away on the honeymoon."
- "Oh, what?!"
- "I don't know where we're going. Where
are we going?"
- "Niagara Falls."
- (To Duffy) "Niagara
Falls, Duffy."
- "Two whole weeks, Walter?"
- "Sure, you've earned it. (To Duffy) What? What?
A strike? What strike? Where? Albany? Well, I know it's on the way,
Duffy, but I can't ask Hildy to..."
- "Alright, we'll honeymoon in Albany."
- "OK, Duffy, ha, ha, ha. Well, isn't that a coincidence?
We're going to Albany. I wonder if Bruce can put us up? Say, why
don’t you
carry that in your hand?"
Play clip (excerpt): ![His Girl Friday](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
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- "Spain. Spain! Oh,
Diego, when may we expect you and our dear little Lolita in Madrid?"
- "Not for some time, l'm afraid. We're gonna follow the
customs of California."
- "What do you mean?"
- "Well, we’re
gonna marry and raise fat children and watch our vineyards grow."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Mark of Zorro](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Mortal Storm (1940)
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"I said to a man who stood at a gate: 'Give me
a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' And he replied:
'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That
shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way.'" |
My Little Chickadee (1940)
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- "Just a minute, boys. You got me all confused.
Well, I like the both of ya."
- "But you can't marry both of us."
- "I know.
That's the trouble. Ya gotta give me a little time to think
it over."
- "How much time?"
- "Well, maybe tomorrow or maybe never. But don't let
that keep ya from comin' around. Any time you got nothin' to do
and lots of time to do it, come up. Oh, are you leaving, honey?"
- "Yes. Goodbye, beauty."
- "Oh, my. I wanna give you back your wedding ring. Guess
I won't need it anymore."
- "Oh, thanks. Thanks. Well, maybe some other time."
- "Yeah. I'll
keep you on my wedding list."
- "Aw, Thank you.
Well, I have to hurry back East
to attend to some oil wells I have there."
- "Oil wells?"
- "Yes, uh, hair
oil wells."
- "Oh!! What a man."
- "If you get up around the Grampian Hills,
you must come up and see me sometime."
- "Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll do that, my little chickadee."
Play clip (excerpt): ![My Little Chickadee](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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- "Tracy, darling."
- "I love you, Father."
- "I love you
too, Tracy."
- "Never in my life have I been so full of love before."
- "Come along. Come along."
- "Wait. How do I look?"
- "Like a queen. Like a goddess."
- "And do you know how I feel?"
- "How?"
- "Like a human. Like a human being."
- "Do you know how I feel?"
- "How?"
- "Proud."
- "I did it. I did it all."
- "I feel as though I'd lived through all of this before in another
life."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Philadelphia Story](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
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- "Well, perhaps, it's lucky we didn't drown
any of them at birth, my dear!"
- "Mr. Bennet, you must find out what
money they have. Col. Foster can tell you about Mr. Denny. And Sir
William knows all about Mr. Witherington. You must go at once, Mr.
Bennet! This very afternoon! Auhh! Think of it! Three of them married.
And the other two, just tottering on the brink!"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Pride and Prejudice](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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Rebecca (1940)
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- "Maxim. Thank heaven
you've come back to me."
- "Are you all right, darling?"
- "Oh, yes."
- "Are you all
right?"
- "It's Mrs. Danvers. She's
gone mad. She said she'd rather destroy Manderley than see us happy
here."
- "Look, the West Wing!"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Rebecca](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
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- "Tell me. When you came to the Cafe that night, oh,
I was pretty rude, wasn't I?"
- "Oh, no. No."
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"Yes, I was. Don't you remember?
I, why, I called you bowlegged."
- "Oh, well, but, and I was going to prove to you that I wasn't.
I was going to go out to the street and pull up my trousers."
- "Well, would you mind very much if I asked you to pull them up
now?" |
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
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- "My people, I owe everything to Abu and when he
grows into a man, he shall be my Grand Vizier. He shall be sent to
the best school in Bagdad. And all the wise men of the East shall
teach him all the wisdom of the world. He shall be the wisest of
men, and in those future days, when he will be full of knowledge,
science and dignity, he will be the shining example for the youth
of Bagdad. And they may remember how the little thief became the
dignified.... Hey, Abu! Where are you going?"
- "You had what you wanted. Now, I'm going to find what I
want."
- "What's that?"
- "Some fun - and adventure at last!"
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Thief of Bagdad](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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Citizen Kane (1941)
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"Throw that junk."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Citizen Kane](wavfiles/sound.gif)
or (during ending credits):
"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper." |
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
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- "Talking bears! Talking dogs! People who
disappear! Slapstick comedy! What kind of a script is that?"
- "Well, I didn't tell you, but I saw Hellzapoppin' in New
York and I thought it was very funny."
- "Well, here's what I think of it." (gunshots)
- "Well, you
can't hurt me that way. I always wear a bullet-proof vest around
the studios."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Hellzapoppin'](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
High Sierra (1941)
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- "Mister, what does it mean when a man crashes
out?"
- "Crashes out? That's a funny question for you to ask now, sister. It
means he's free."
- "Free."
Play clip (excerpt): ![High Sierra](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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How Green Was My Valley (1941)
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(voice-over) "Men like my father cannot die.
They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving
and beloved forever. How green was my valley then."
Play clip (excerpt): ![How Green Was My Valley](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Johnny Eager (1941)
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- "Johnny, Johnny! Johnny. Johnny."
- "Hello, Jeff."
- "Hello, Johnny."
- "Hey, Jeff. What's that highest mountain where we're goin'?"
- "Why, it, it..."
- "What'd he say?"
- "He just asked about a mountain."
- "What mountain? Do you know this guy?"
- "Yeah. This guy could've climbed the highest mountain
in the world if he'd just started up the right one."
- "Hello. Oh, hello, Floyd, that's you. Yeah, just gettin'
home. Say, there were four down in a gunfight down here at Swandale and
Kenston. Yeah, I got the last one. His face looks familiar. Aw, just
another hood, I guess. Well, whoever he is, he don't mean a thing to
anybody now, much less to me. Say, call Mae and tell her I'll be late,
will ya?"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Johnny Eager](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Lady Eve (1941)
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- "Why did we have to go through all this nonsense?
Don't you know you're the only man I ever loved? Don't you know I
couldn't look at another man if I wanted to? Don't you know I waited
all my life for you, you big mug?"
- "Will you forgive me?"
- "For what?
Oh, you mean on the boat. The question is, can you forgive me?"
- "What for?"
- "Oh, you still don't understand."
- "I don't want to understand.
I don't want to know. Whatever it is, keep it to yourself. All I
know is, I adore you. I'll never leave you again and we'll work it out
somehow. There's just one thing. I feel it's only fair to tell you.
It would never have happened except she looked so exactly like you. And
I have no right to be in your cabin."
- "Why?"
- "Because I'm married."
- "But
so am I, darling. So am I."
- "Positively the same dame."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Lady Eve](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Little Foxes (1941)
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- "Alexandra, I've come to the end of my rope! Somewhere
there's got to be what I want, too. Life goes too fast. You can go
where you want, do what you want, think what you want. I'd like to
keep you with me, but I won't make you stay. No, I won't make you
stay."
- "You couldn't, Mama, because I don't
want to stay with you. Because I'm beginning to understand about things.
Addie said there were people who ate the Earth, and people who stood
around and watched them do it. And just now, Uncle Ben said the same
thing, really the same thing. Well, tell him for me, Mama, I'm not
gonna watch you do it. Tell him I'll be fightin' as hard as he is,
someplace where people don't just stand around and watch."
- "Why, Alexandra, you
have spirit after all. I used to think you were all sugar water. We
don't have to be bad friends, then. I don't want us to be bad friends. Would
you like to talk with me, Alexandra? Would you like to sleep in my room
tonight?"
- "Why, Mama? Are you afraid?"
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Little Foxes](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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- "Heavy. What is it?"
- "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of."
- "Huh?"
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Maltese Falcon](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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Man Hunt (1941)
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(voice-over) "And from now on, somewhere
within Germany, is a man with a precision rifle and the high degree of
intelligence and training that is required to use it. It may be days,
months or even years, but this time he clearly knows his purpose and,
unflinching, faces his destiny." |
Meet John Doe (1941)
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- "John... John... Oh, John, don't do it! I love
you. I love you, darling. Oh, please! Please
don't give up. We'll start all
over again. Just you and I. It isn't too late. The John Doe movement
isn't dead yet. You see, John, it isn't dead or they wouldn't be
here. It's alive in them. They kept it alive by being afraid of it.
That's why they came up here. Oh, darling! Sure, it should have been
killed. It was dishonest. But we can start clean now. Just you and
I. It'll grow John, and it'll grow big because it'll be honest this
time. Oh, John, if it's worth dying for, it's worth living for. Oh
please, John. Oh. Oh, please! Please, God help me! John, John, look
at me. You wanna be honest, don't ya? Well, you don't have to die
to keep the John Doe idea alive. Someone already died for that once.
The first John Doe. And he's kept that idea alive for nearly 2,000
years. It was He who kept it alive in them. And He'll go on keeping
it alive for ever and always - for every John Doe movement these
men kill, a new one will be born. That's why those bells are ringing,
John. They're calling to us, not to give up but to keep on fighting,
to keep on pitching. Oh, don't you see darling? This is no time to
give up. You and I, John, we...Oh, no, no, John. If you die, I want
to die too. Oh, oh, I love you. Oh, John..."
- "Mr. Doe. You don't have to...we're with ya, Mr. Doe. We
just lost our heads and acted like a mob."
- "What Bert's trying to say
is that we need you, Mr. Doe. There were a lot of us that didn't
believe what that man said. We were gonna start up our John
Doe club again whether we saw you or not. Weren't we, Bert? And there
were a lot of others that were gonna do the same thing. Well, Mr. Sourpuss
even got a letter from his cousin in Toledo. (I got it right here,
Mr. Doe)..Only, only it'd be a lot easier with you. Please, please,
come with us, Mr. Doe...."
- "Long John!"
- "Mr. Doe. You will help me with her. She'll be alright."
- "We'll take her right down to the car."
- "There
you are, Norton. The people! Try and lick that!"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Meet John Doe](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
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"When I want to kiss my wife, I'll kiss her
anytime, anyplace, anywhere. That's the kind of hairpin I am."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Strawberry Blonde](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
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"There's a lot to be said for making people
laugh! Did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much, but
it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan! Boy!"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Sullivan's Travels](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
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- "About one-thirty, I was walking with him on
the upper deck. The fighting was at its height. The French flagship
The Redoubtable came through the smoke. And we fought alongside
one another. He was so confident. We'd just turned to go back to
the... (sobbing) By sunset, everything was over, but he-he
lived to know he'd won England's greatest victory. His-his last
thoughts were with you, my lady. That you should be cared for."
- "And then?"
- "And then what?"
- "What happened after?"
- "There is no then. There is no after."
Play clip (excerpt): ![That Hamilton Woman](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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Casablanca (1942)
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"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a
beautiful friendship."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Casablanca](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Desperate Journey (1942)
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- "Operator, switch me over. Forbes, this is the
CO speaking."
- "Yes, sir? Hey, Johnny? Just a moment, sir. Johnny? Did
you let that bomb go?"
- "Yeah, I must be out of practice. I missed
the Channel."
- "What?"
- "But I dropped it right on that battery of big guns that's been
placed at Dover. Sorry."
- "Excuse the interruption, sir.
That's right, sir. Flight Lieutenant Forbes, Flying Officer Forrest,
Flying Officer Hammond of Fortress D for Danny, mission completed."
- "Terry. Jed. England!"
- "Yeah. Now for Australia and a crack at those
Japs."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Desperate Journey](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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In Which We Serve (1942, UK)
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(voice-over) "Here ends the story
of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island
race. Through all our centuries the sea has ruled our destiny. There
will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men,
in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond
all loss, in spite of changing values and a changing world, they
give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indomitable pride...God
bless our ships and all who sail in them."
Play clip (excerpt): ![In Which We Serve](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Kings Row (1942)
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- "My grandmother used to say, 'Some people
grow up and some people just grow older.' I guess it's time we
found out about us, you and me. Whether I'm a doctor, and whether
you're a man. You know the kind of man I mean, Drake. There's a piece
of poetry, Invictus.
I don't think I remember all the words. 'Out of the night that covers
me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul, In
the fell clutch of circumstance, I had not winced nor cried aloud, Under
the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed.' I don't
know if you can take it, Drake."
- "Give it to me."
- "Dr. Gordon cut off your
legs. I don't know if it was necessary. He was that kind, a butcher, who
thought he had a special ordination to punish transgressors. With you,
he had a double incentive because of Louise, heaven knows what else. The
caverns of the human mind are full of strange shadows, but none of that
matters. The point is, he wanted to destroy you. Oh, not literally, he
wanted to destroy the Drake McHugh you were. He wanted to see you turn
into a lifelong cripple, mentally, as well as physically. That's all there
is, Drake. Now, if you turn your face to that wall."
- "(laughter) That's a hot one,
isn't it? Where
did Gordon think I lived, in my legs? Did he think those things were Drake
McHugh? Spout that poetry again, Parris. I never was any good at poetry."
- "Drake, Drake."
- "What was it you wanted, honey, to build a house? We'll
move into it in broad daylight. And we'll invite the folks in, too. For
Pete's sake, let's give a party, I feel swell!"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Kings Row](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
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"We, in this quiet corner of England,
have suffered the loss of friends very dear to us. Some close to
this church. George West, choir boy; James Ballard, station master
and bell ringer and the proud winner, only an hour before his death,
of the Beldon Cup for his beautiful Miniver rose. And our hearts
go out in sympathy for the two families who share the cruel loss
of a young girl who was married at this altar only two weeks ago.
The homes of many of us have been destroyed, and the lives of young
and old have been taken. There is scarcely a household that hasn't
been struck to the heart. And why? Surely you must have asked yourselves
this question. Why, in all conscience, should these be the ones to
suffer? Children, old people, a young girl at the height of her loveliness.
Why these? Are these our soldiers? Are these our fighters? Why should
they be sacrificed? I shall tell you why. Because this
is not only a war of soldiers in uniform. It is a war of the people
- of all the people - and it must be fought not only on the battlefield
but in the cities and in the villages, in the factories and on the
farms, in the home and in the heart of every man, woman and child
who loves freedom. Well, we have buried our dead, but we shall not
forget them. Instead, they will inspire us with an unbreakable determination
to free ourselves and those who come after us from the tyranny and
terror that threaten to strike us down. This is the people’s
war. It is our war. We are the fighters. Fight it, then. Fight it
with all that is in us, and may God defend the right."
Play clips (excerpt): (short) (extended) |
Now, Voyager (1942)
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"Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for
the moon. We have the stars."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Now, Voyager](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
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- "People all say that I've had a bad break, but
today... Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face
of the earth." (applause and cheers)
- "Play ball!"
Play clips (excerpt): (extended) |
Saboteur (1942)
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"Kaaaaaaaaaaaaannnne....." |
Woman of the Year (1942)
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- "Oh! Sam, I can't do it. I've tried, but I can't."
- "Tess. I'm disappointed in you. I've been mad
at you, but this is the first time I've ever been disappointed."
- "Make them stop."
-
"Why
do you have to go to extremes, Tess? I don't wanna be married to Tess
Harding any more than I want you to be just Mrs. Sam Craig. Why
can't you be Tess Harding-Craig?"
- "I think it's a wonderful name."
- "Miss Harding, uh, Miss Harding! They
told me at the office that you'd telephoned for this address. You've
got to launch a battleship at 8:30."
- "Gerald. (sounds of breaking glass, and body falling) I've
just launched Gerald."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Woman of the Year](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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- "Goodbye, sir. And I want you to know that I'm
not the only one that's grateful. My mother thanks you. My father
thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I assure you, I thank you.
And, uh, I wouldn't worry about this country if I were you. We've
got this thing licked. Where else in the world could a plain guy
like me come in and talk things over with the head man?"
- "Well, that's
about as good a definition of America as any I've ever heard. Goodbye,
Mr. Cohan, and good luck."
- "Goodbye, sir. And good luck to you."
[Song: "Over There"]
- "What's the matter,
old timer, don't you remember this song?"
- "Seems to me I do."
- "Well,
I don't hear anything."
- (singing) "And the Yanks are coming, the Yanks
are coming...."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Yankee Doodle Dandy](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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Destination Tokyo (1943)
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- "I'm hopping the first train back to the farm and
I'm bustin' open a big barrel of cider just for me."
- "I'm goin' to a
platter shop, and I'm gonna get drunk on Dinah Shore records."
- "Every
night for weeks, I've been dreamin' of green vegetables. Four heads
of lettuce, all in a row."
- "Boy, I'm dreamin' of somethin' else."
- "Well,
there'll be somebody hangin' over a hot stove for me for a change."
- "Me, I'm gonna take my girl out in a canoe and propose to her. Gonna
get married and have seven kids."
- "If you wait till I'm a doctor, I'll deliver
'em for ya free. Hey, that reminds me, I want a picture of that scar
of yours to put on the wall of my office when the war's over."
- "It's like Mike said. When you're here,
you wish you were back out there."
- "Won't be such a long time between
beers now, captain."
- "For a moment, I thought I saw my wife and kids on
that dock. I couldn't be that lucky."
- "Well,
maybe wives have a way of knowing
when their men are coming home, Captain. Take another look."
- "You're right.
I couldn't be that lucky. But I am."
- "To the United States Navy, our
thanks for making this picture possible. To the gallant officers
and men of the silent service, to our submarines now on war
patrol in hostile waters. Good luck and good hunting."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Destination Tokyo](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
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"I can tell ya now, Dorinda. I can tell you everything
I've ever wanted to tell ya. You're goin' back and you're gonna
have a swell life, Dorinda. You're gonna have a wonderful life. Everything's
gonna seem prettier than it was before. The rain's gonna have a little
more smell to it. The trees are gonna seem a little greener. And
the nights are gonna be all chock full of stars. And when you go
to sleep, Dorinda, you're not gonna have any bad dreams. And when
that morning sunlight hits you in the face, you're gonna wake up
laughing. And what's more, you're goin' out with people, and you're
gonna have all the things that they have, including love. You know,
the only decent thing I ever did in my life was love you, Dorinda.
But if the memory of that love is gonna make you unhappy all the
rest of your life, there must have been something wrong with it.
It should've been the kind that filled your heart so full of love
that you just had to go out and find someone to give it to. That's
the only real kind, isn't it, Dorinda? That's the only kind that
ever lives. You know, I find myself wondering what kind of kids you
two will have. I'd like to talk to those kids sometime. I think I
could tell 'em something. I think I could tell them about life, how
good it is, how good it can be. And how the decent things in life
never die. And how the only kind of love worth having is the kind
that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving. There
he is, Dorinda. Go on. I'm setting you free, Dorinda. I'm moving
out of your heart. Good-bye. Good-bye, darling. That's my girl. And
that's my boy."
Play clip (excerpt): ![A Guy Named Joe](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Human Comedy (1943)
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"You see, Marcus. The ending is only the beginning." |
Jane Eyre (1943)
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- "Jane. All you can feel now is mere pity. I don't
want your pity."
- "Edward."
- "You can't spend your life on the mere wreckage
of a man. You're young and fresh. You ought to get married."
- "Don't
send me away. Please, don't send me away."
- "You think I want to let
you go?"
(voice-over narration) "As the months went past, he came to see
the light once more as well as to feel its warmth. To see first the glory
of the sun, and then the mild splendor of the moon, and at last the evening
star.
And then one day when our first-born son was
put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own
eyes as they once were - large, brilliant, and black."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Jane Eyre](wavfiles/sound.gif)
|
Madame Curie (1943)
|
"Even now, after twenty-five years of intensive
research, we feel there is a great deal still to be done. We have made
many discoveries. Pierre Curie, in the suggestions we have found in
his notes and in thoughts he expressed to me, has helped to guide us
to him. But no one of us can do much if each of us perhaps can catch
some gleam of knowledge which modestly insufficient of itself may add
to man's dream of truth. It is by these small candles in our darkness
that we see before us, little by little, the dim outlines of that great
plan that shapes the universe. And I am among those who think that
for this reason, science has great beauty and with its great spiritual
strength will in time cleanse this world of its evils, its ignorance,
its poverty, diseases, wars and heartaches. Look for the clear light
of truth. Look for unknown new roads even when man's sight is keener
far than now. Divine wonder will never fail him. Every age has its
own dreams. Leave then the dreams of yesterday. You - take the torch
of knowledge and build the palace of the future." |
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
|
- "Where are we goin'?"
- "He said
he wanted his wife to get this letter, didn't he? He said there was
nobody to look after the kids, didn't he?"
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Ox-Bow Incident](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Seventh Victim (1943)
|
(voice-over) "I run to death, and death meets
me as fast. And all my pleasures are like yesterday." |
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
|
- "I love you."
- (in unison) "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with
thee."
- "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for me." (bell tolls
at time of death)
- "Pray for us sinners
now and at the hour of our death. Amen."
- "You are now in heaven and
on earth. Your life begins, oh Bernadette." ("Hallelujah!")
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Song of Bernadette](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Stormy Weather (1943)
|
(applause)
"Everybody
dance!"
[Song: "My, My, Ain't That Somethin']
Play clip (excerpt): ![Stormy Weather](wavfiles/sound.gif)
|
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
|
- "You mean, you mean, I'm not really a Brewster?"
- "Oh, but darling!
Now, don't feel so badly about it."
- "And
I'm sure it won't make any difference
to Elaine."
- "No, of course it won't, darling."
- "Ha, ha. Elaine! Elaine! Where are you? Can you hear me?
I'm not really a Brewster! I'm a son of a sea cook!"
- (screams) "Mortimer, Mortimer, Mortimer!
It's true! It's true. I saw them. It's true. It's
true! There are thirteen bodies down there! But I saw them."
- "What's all
this screamin' about?"
- "But I saw them."
- "It's way past her bedtime. Quiet!"
- "But, Mortimer! But, Mortimer!"
- "Goodbye! 'Bye."
- "Goodbye,
goodbye, darling!"
- "What is all this?"
- "They're going on their honeymoon."
- "Well,
they're
off to a flyin' start."
- "Mortimer,
I really did see..."
- "Uh, you'll own two cabs! I
mean the meter!"
- "Oh, Mortimer. Oh!"
- "Oh, Mortimer."
- "We're goin' to Niagara Falls. Call
me a cab, dear."
- "Yes, love. But, Mr. Brewster!"
- "No, no. I'm not a Brewster.
I'm a son of a sea cook. Ha, ha. Charge!"
- "I’m not a cabdriver. I’m a coffeepot."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Arsenic and Old Lace](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Christmas Holiday (1944)
|
"You heard what he said. 'You can let go now,
Abigail.'" |
Double Indemnity (1944)
|
- "How are you doing, Walter?"
- "Fine. Somebody moved the elevator
a couple of miles away."
- "They're on the way."
- "You know why you couldn’t figure this
one, Keyes? I’ll tell ya. Because the guy you were looking for
was too close. He was right across the desk from ya."
- "Closer than that, Walter."
- "I love you, too."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Double Indemnity](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
|
- "I knew the Marines could do almost anything,
but I never knew they could do anything like this."
- "You've got no idea." |
Lady in the Dark (1944)
|
"This is the end! THE ABSOLUTE END!"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Lady in the Dark](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Laura (1944)
|
- (radio voice-over narration) "Love is stronger
than life. It reaches beyond the dark shadow of death. I close this
evening's broadcast with some favorite lines from Dowson. 'Brief
Life: They are not long, the weeping
and the laughter, love and desire and hate. I
think they have no portion in us after we pass the gate.'"
- "Who's tailing Lydecker?"
- "I was going to, when he came out."
- "He
left five minutes ago."
- "He didn't come out this way."
- "Must've gone
out the back way. Come on. Let's check."
- (radio narration) "'They
are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out
of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes within
a dream.'"
- "That's the way it is, isn't it,
Laura?"
- "Waldo!"
- (radio) "You have heard the voice of Waldo Lydecker by
electrical transcription."
- "Waldo, you've taken one life. Isn't that
enough?"
- "The best part of myself, that's what you are. Do you think
I'm going to leave it to the vulgar pawing of a second-rate detective
who thinks you're a dame? Do you think I could bear the thought
of him holding you in his arms, kissing you, loving you?"
- (doorbell) "Laura!
It's Mark. Open the door!"
- "There he is now."
- "Laura!"
- "He'll find
us together, Laura, as we always have been, as we always should
be, as we always will be." (gunshots)
- "Mark!"
- "Good-bye, Laura. Good-bye, my love."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Laura](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
|
"I can’t believe it. Right here where
we live. Right here in St. Louis."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Meet Me in St. Louis](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
To Have and Have Not (1944)
|
- "Who are you?"
- "Was you ever bit by a dead bee?"
-
"Was you?"
- "Yeah. You know, you got to be careful of dead bees. They can sting
you just as bad as live ones. Especially if they was kind of mad when
they got killed."
- "I feel like I was talkin' to myself."
- "I bet I've been
bit 100 times that way."
- "Why don't you bite 'em back?"
- "I would.
Only I haven't got a stinger."
- "Oh, I remember you. You're all right. She
can come, Harry, it's okay with me. Now I'll have the two of you to take
care of, won't I?"
- "That's right, Eddie. You can begin by grabbin' these bags. Come
on, Slim."
- "Steve? Do I have time to say goodbye to Cricket?"
- "Sure, go ahead."
- "Cricket, I
came to say goodbye."
- "What?"
- "We're leaving now. Thanks for everything."
- "Hey, Slim. Are you still happy?"
- "What do you think?"
Play clip (excerpt):
|
The Uninvited (1944)
|
- "Mary Meredith, where are you? It's time somebody
faced that icy rage of yours. What do you want? It's Stella, isn't
it? It's too late, Mary. You see, we're on to you now. You told Carmel
to clear out and leave her baby, but Meredith wouldn't stand for
it. And to spite them, you tried to kill their child and instead
went hurtling over the cliff yourself. Gives your saintly legend
rather a black eye, doesn't it? Ha, ha. Oh, so you don't like the
sound of laughter, do you? But that's all you'll get from now on.
Ha, ha, ha, ha! I
should think you'll be on your way now, Mary Meredith. We've had
enough. We're not frightened of you anymore. From now on, this house
is for the living."
- (knocking on door) "Rick, are you all right? Let me in, Rick!
Oh, Rick!"
- "You all right, Fitzgerald?"
- "Yes, fine. She's gone,
Stella."
- "Look! He'd never go near those stairs before."
- "Bobby'll be
back tomorrow. I think we'll be having other plans for Bobby."
- "You're
still shaking, Rick."
- "Well, I've had a narrow escape. She might
have been my mother-in-law."
Play clip (excerpt): |
The Woman in the Window (1944)
|
- "Pardon me, uh, will you give me a light?"
-
"No, oh, no. Thank you, indeed. Not for a million dollars!" |
Blood on the Sun (1945)
|
- "The United States government
doesn't settle for a deal, Yamada."
- "Condon San. Condon San, you have saying: 'Forgive
your enemies.' I am willing."
- "Sure, forgive your enemies. But first, get even."
Play clip (excerpt): |
Brief Encounter (1945)
|
- "Whatever
your dream was, it wasn't a very happy one, was it?"
- "No."
- "Is there anything
I can do to help?"
- "Yes, Fred. You always help."
- "You've been a long way away."
- "Yes."
- "Thank you for coming
back to me."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Brief Encounter](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
|
"What a Christmas! Ha, ha, ha. What a Christmas!"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Christmas in Connecticut](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Detour (1945)
|
"I was in Bakersfield before I read
that Vera's body was discovered, and that the police were looking
for Haskell in connection with his wife's murder. Isn't that a laugh?
Haskell got me into this mess and Haskell was getting me out of it.
The police were searching for a dead man. I
keep trying to forget what happened and wonder what my life might
have been if that car of Haskell's hadn't stopped. But one thing
I don't have to wonder about, I know. Someday a car will stop to
pick me up that I never thumbed. Yes, fate or some mysterious force
can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Detour](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
|
"Elizabeth, I just had the craziest
dream. You know, if you saw it in the movies, you'd never believe it." |
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
|
"I guess Dick's about home now." |
The Lost Weekend (1945)
|
- "I'm gonna put this whole weekend
down, minute by minute."
- "Why not?"
- "The way I stood in there, packing my suitcase. Only my mind
wasn't on the suitcase, and it wasn't on the weekend, nor was it on the
shirts I was putting in the suitcase either. My mind
was hanging outside the window. It was suspended just about eighteen
inches below. And out there in that great big concrete jungle, I wonder
how many others that are like me. Poor bedeviled guys on fire with thirst.
Such comical figures to the rest of the world as they stagger blindly
towards another binge, another bender, another spree."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Lost Weekend](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Mildred Pierce (1945)
|
- "l thought maybe, in a way, it was my
fault. So l tried to help her. l wanted to take the blame for it."
- "Not this time, Mrs.
Beragon. This time your daughter pays for her own mistake. Okay, book
her."
- "Darling, l'm sorry. l did the best l could."
- "Don't worry about me,
Mother. l'll get by."
- "See that those others are released. We need some
fresh air in here. lt looks like a nice morning. You can go now. We'll
call you when we want you. You know, Mrs. Beragon, there are times
when l regret being a policeman."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Mildred Pierce](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Scarlet Street (1945)
|
(echoing off-screen)
- "Johnny.
Oh Johnny."
-
"Lazy
Legs."
-
"Jeepers, I love you, Johnny." |
They Were Expendable (1945)
|
- "Sir? How many more planes are comin' in?"
- "None. Look, son, we're going home to do a job. And
that job is to get ready to come back. Check?"
- "Check." |
The Best Years of
Our Lives (1946)
|
- "Those whom God hath joined together,
let not man put asunder. For as much as Homer and Wilma have consented
together in holy wedlock and have witnessed the same before God and
this company, and thereto have given and pledged their troth, each
to the other, and have declared the same by giving and receiving
a ring, and by joining hands, I pronounce that they are man and wife.
God bless you both."
- "You know what it'll be,
don't you, Peggy? It may take us years to get anywhere. We'll have
no money, no decent place to live. We'll have to work - get kicked
around."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Best Years of Our Lives](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Big Sleep (1946)
|
- "It won't take him long."
- "What are you gonna...?
- "Wait a minute, let
me do the talking, angel. I don't know yet what I'll tell him, but
it'll be pretty close to the truth. You'll have to send Carmen away from
a lot of things. They have places for that. Maybe they can cure her.
It's been done before. We'll have to tell your father about Regan.
I think he can take it."
- "You've forgotten one thing. Me."
- "What's wrong with you?"
- "Nothing you can't fix."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Big Sleep](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Decoy (1946)
|
- "Jo Jo, please, just this once, come down to
my level. Ha, ha, ha. Oh, simple arithmetic. That's all it was."
(reading a note) - "To you who double-crossed me, I leave
this dollar for your trouble. The rest of the dough I leave to the worms."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Decoy (1946)](wavfiles/sound.gif)
|
Dressed to Kill (1946)
|
- "An brilliant antagonist! It's a
pity how talents were so misdirected. Will you see that these
plates are returned to the Bank of England, Inspector?"
- "I still don't understand how
you solved it, Mr. Holmes."
- "It's entirely due to Dr. Watson. He gave me the
clue when he mentioned Dr. Samuel Johnson."
- "Well, Congratulations, Doctor."
- "Oh, thank you, Inspector. I don't
think I could have done it entirely without Mr. Holmes' help, you know. Ha,
ha, ha."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Dressed to Kill (1946)](wavfiles/sound.gif)
|
Duel in the Sun (1946)
|
- "You always said you could
shoot. I never believed ya."
- "Lewt, I love you. I love you."
- "Oh, don't cry, honey. Don't cry."
- "I had to do it, Lewt. I had to do it."
- "Of course you did. Let me, let me hold ya."
- "Just hold me. Hold me once more."
- "Little bob-cat."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Duel in the Sun](wavfiles/sound.gif)
|
It's A Wonderful Life
(1946)
|
- "Look, Daddy. Teacher says, 'Every
time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.'"
- "That's right...That's right. Attaboy, Clarence."
Play clip (excerpt): ![It's a Wonderful Life](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Killers (1946)
|
"The double-cross to end all double-crosses!" |
My Darling Clementine
(1946)
|
"Ma'am, I sure like that name � Clementine."
Play clip (excerpt): ![My Darling Clementine](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Notorious (1946)
|
- "Now just a minute,
I must sit with her!"
- "No room,
Sebastian."
- "Oh, but you must take me. They're watching me."
- "That's
your headache."
- "Please take me! Please! Please! Please!"
- "There is no
telephone in her room to call the hospital."
- "Alex, will you come in, please?
I wish to talk to you."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Notorious](wavfiles/sound.gif)
|
The Postman Always
Rings Twice (1946)
|
- "Cora wrote it. lt's a very beautiful
note, Frank, written by a girl who loved a man very much. l imagine
it was written earlier the very night she died. A note of farewell,
isn't it?"
- "She did try and run away that night."
- "And since she had no idea anyone
would ever see that note but you, it therefore has in it just enough
of a confession to convict you of helping her kill her husband.
So if you were to leave this room because you didn't kill her, you'd
soon be right back here again for helping her kill Nick. What's the
use?"
- "Then, then what's gonna happen to me is not because l killed
her?"
- "No, laddie, for killing Nick."
- "You know, there's somethin'
about this that's like, well, it's like you're expectin' a
letter that you're just crazy to get, and ya hang around the
front door for fear you might not hear him ring. You never
realize that he always rings twice."
- "What's that?"
- "Well, he rang twice
for Cora and now he's ringing twice for me, isn't he?"
- "That's
about it."
- "The truth is, you always hear him ring the second time.
Even if you're way out in the back yard. Father, you were right. It all
works out. I guess God knows more about these things than we do.
Somehow or other, Cora paid for Nick's life with hers. And now I'm
going to. Father, would you send up a prayer for me and Cora, and
if you could find it in your heart, make it that we're together,
wherever it is?"
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
|
(five gunshots and scream)
- "Murderer."
- "Helen!"
- "You killed them. You killed them all. The servant girl
in the well. The others in the town. Today, the cripple in the hotel.
You killed them all. Tonight, it would have been Helen. I heard you.
Stephen. Get me Stephen. Now it's been done. Ten years too late."
- "No."
- "Forgive me, Stephen. I thought it was you. He always
waited till you came home, so I thought it was you. Oh."
- "A doctor. Get Dr. Parry. Hurry!"
- "1-8-9...Dr. Parry?...Come...It's I, Helen."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Spiral Staircase](wavfiles/sound.gif)
|
To Each His Own (1946)
|
"I think this is our dance, Mother."
Play clip (excerpt): ![To Each His Own](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
|
- "You remind me of a man."
- "What man?"
- "A man with the power."
- "What power?"
- "The power of hoo-do."
- "Hoo-do?"
- "You do."
- "Do what?"
- "You remind me of a man."
- "What man?"
- "A man with the power."
- "What power?"
- "Give up?"
- "Give up. Let's go."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer](wavfiles/sound.gif)
|
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
|
"Tonight I want to tell you the story of an empty stocking. Once upon
a midnight clear, there was a child's cry. A blazing star hung over a stable,
and wise men came with birthday gifts. We haven't forgotten that night
down the centuries. We celebrate it with stars on Christmas trees with
the sound of bells, and with gifts. But especially with gifts. You give
me a book, I give you a tie. Aunt Martha has always wanted an orange squeezer
and Uncle Henry could do with a new pipe. For we forget nobody, adult or
child. All the stockings are filled, all that is, except one. And we have
even forgotten to hang it up. The stocking for the child born in a manger.
It's his birthday we're celebrating. Don't let us ever forget that. Let
us ask ourselves what He would wish for most. And then, let each put in
his share: loving kindness, warm hearts, and a stretched-out hand of tolerance
- all the shining gifts that make peace on Earth."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Bishop's Wife](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Brute Force (1947)
|
"Collins and Munsey are dead. And the
others. All those others. Why do they do it? They never get away with
it. Alcatraz, Atlanta, Leavenworth. It's been tried in a hundred ways
from as many places - and always fails, but they keep trying. Why do
they do it?....Nobody escapes. Nobody ever really escapes." |
Dead Reckoning (1947)
|
"Like going out the jump door. Hold your breath and
just let go, Mike. Don't fight it. Remember all the guys who've done
it before you. You'll have plenty of company, Mike. High-class company.
Geronimo, Mike." |
The Egg and I (1947)
|
- "Mr. Bob! Mr. Bob! Better come right
away, Mr. Bob! We got trouble in the chicken house."
- "Those water
pipes again?"
- "Busted wide open and them hens is goin' crazy! Ten
drowned. Bob!"
- "Hmm? Oh! I'll be right with ya! Okay!"
- "Don't
go away, you two! You see what I mean? I could write
a book." |
Escape Me Never (1947)
|
"But I don't want a better man,
Sebastian. I just want you." |
The Hucksters (1947)
|
"Now we're starting out with exactly
an even nothing in the world. It's neater that way." |
Life with Father (1947)
|
- "Good morning, Mr. Day. Going to
the office?"
- "No, I'm going to be baptized!"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Life With Father](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Man I Love (1947)
|
"Here's lookin' at ya, baby." |
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
|
- "Suzie, where are you?"
- "I'm upstairs!"
- "Come right down. You
know you shouldn't run around in other people's houses. You know better
than that."
- "But this is my house, Mommy, the one I asked Mr. Kringle for."
- "Now, Suzie!"
- "It is! It is! I know it is! My room upstairs is just like
I knew it would be! Oh, you were right, Mommy. Mommy told me if things
don't turn out just the way you want them to the first time, you still
got to believe. And I kept believing. And you were right, Mommy! Mr.
Kringle is Santa Claus!"
- "Where are you going?"
- "To see if there's a swing!
There is one! There is one!"
- "You told her that? The sign outside said
it's for sale. We can't let her down."
- "I never really doubted you. It
was just my silly common sense."
- "It even makes sense to believe in me
now. I must be a pretty good lawyer. I take a little old man and
legally prove to the world that he's Santa Claus. Now, you know that..."
- "Oh no, it can't be. It must
have been left here by the people that moved out."
- "Maybe. Maybe I didn't do such a wonderful
thing after all."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Miracle on 34th Street](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Odd Man Out (1947, UK)
|
- "There's their gun, sir."
- "Two shots fired."
- "Yes sir, that's when we had to fire back." |
Out Of The Past (1947) (aka
Build My Gallows High)
|
"You can tell me. You knew him better than
I did. Was he going away with her? I have to know. Was
he going away with her?" |
The Red House (1947)
|
"I thought I better finish what Ellen started
out to do, sweetheart. I set fire to the red house. Looking forward
is much better than looking back." |
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
|
- "And another thing, Mr. Chick Young.
The next time that I tell ya that I saw somethin' when I saw it,
you believe me that I saw it!"
- "Oh, relax. Now that
we've seen the last of Dracula, the Wolfman and the Monster, there's
nobody to frighten us anymore."
- "Oh, that's too bad. I was hoping to get in on the excitement."
- "Who said that?"
- "Allow me to introduce myself.
I'm the Invisible Man. (laughter)"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
|
- "Juan! No more romance, huh?"
- "My dear friend, there's a little
bit of Don Juan in every man, but since I am Don Juan, there must
be more of it in me." |
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
|
(voice-over) "For the deeds he
performed on the diamond, Babe Ruth has deservedly earned his place
in baseball's Hall of Fame, and endeared himself in the heart of
every American for generations to come. His name will live as long
as there is a ball, a bat, and a boy."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Babe Ruth Story](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Jungle Patrol (1948)
|
(voice-over) "These boys did more than their
best. Theirs is the spirit that led to victory." |
Key Largo (1948)
|
- "Mr. Temple, I'm mighty grateful to
ya for savin' my life and all but, those two boys, the Osceolas.
I'd rather been killed than have innocent blood on my hands."
- "Oh, I'm the one to blame.
If they hadn't trusted me, they wouldn't have turned up here and
they'd still be alive. It seems we can't do anything but harm to
those people, even when we go to help 'em."
- "No, Mr. Temple, it wasn't you. It wasn't the
law or anybody. It was only Johnny Rocco. Nobody in the whole world
is safe as long as he's alive."
- "We better go, miss."
- (phone rings) "Hotel Largo. Frank! Oh, thank God. He's
all right, Dad! He's coming back to us."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Key Largo](wavfiles/sound.gif)
|
The Lady From Shanghai
(1948)
|
-
"Oh, Michael, l'm afraid. Michael? Come back here.
Michael? Please! I don't want to die! I don't want to die!"
- "I went to call the cops, but I knew she'd be dead before
they got there. And l'd be free. Bannister's note to the D.A. fixed
it. l'd be innocent, officially. But that's a big word, innocent. Stupid's
more like it. Well, everybody is somebody's
fool. The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old, so I guess
I'll concentrate on that. Maybe I'll live so long that I'll forget
her. Maybe I'll die trying."
Play clips (excerpt): (short) (extended) |
The Naked City (1948)
|
"There are eight million stories
in the naked city. This has been one of them."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Naked City](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Paleface (1948)
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- "Let's not overdo it. I know I deserve
it, but, steady, men. Take it out of the bags, fellas."
- "Honey, I'll
drive."
- "Yeah, you drive and I'll watch."
- "Finally going on your honeymoon?"
- "Am I! Ya-hoo! What do you want, a happy ending?"
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Paleface](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Red River (1948)
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- "When we get back to the ranch,
I want ya to change the brand. It'll be like this, the Red River 'D'
and we'll add an 'M' to it. You don't mind that, do ya?"
- "No."
- "You've earned it."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Red River](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Red Shoes (1948)
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- "Pas d'espoir." (crowd
sighs)
- "Julian?"
- "Yes, my darling?"
- "Take off the red shoes."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Red Shoes](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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Rope (1948)
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- "They're coming." |
They Live By Night (1948)
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- (a letter read outloud): "Little old girl. I'm
gonna miss you but I gotta do it this way. I'll send for both of you
when I can. No matter how long it takes. I've gotta see that kid. He's
lucky. He'll have you to keep him squared around. I love you, Bowie."
- (whispered): "I love you." |
The Treasure of the
Sierra Madre (1948)
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- "Yeah, I'm all fixed for the rest
of my natural life. How about yourself? What do you aim to do?"
- "I haven't got any idea."
- "Aw, you're young yet. You've got plenty
of time to make three or four fortunes for yourself."
- "You know, the
worst ain't so bad when it finally happens. Not half as bad as you
figure it'll be before it's happened. I'm no worse off than I
was in Tampico. All I'm out is a couple hundred bucks when you come right
down to it. Not very much compared to what Dobbsie lost."
- "Any special place you're bent on goin'?"
-
"Naw, all places are the same to me."
- "Tell you what. You can
keep my share of what the burros and the hides'll bring if you use
the money to buy a ticket to Dallas. See Cody's widow. Better than
writin'. And besides, it's July and the fruit harvest. How about
it?"
- "It's a deal."
- "Well, let's get going. Well, goodbye, Curtin."
- "Goodbye, Howard."
- "Good luck."
- "Same to you."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Treasure of the Sierra Madre](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
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"A thousand poets dreamed a thousand years. Then
you were born, my love." |
Adam's Rib (1949)
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- "There ain't any of us don't
have our little tricks, ya know."
- "All right, but, but what does that show? What have
you proved?"
- "It shows the score."
- "It shows that what I said
was true. There's no difference between the sexes. Men, women, the
same."
- "They are, huh?"
- "Well, maybe there is a difference, but
it's a little difference."
- "Well, you know as the French say..."
- "What do they say?"
- "Vive la difference."
- "Which means?"
- "Which means, �Hurray for that little difference.'"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Adam's Rib](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
All the King's Men
(1949)
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"Could have been whole world
- Willie Stark. The whole world - Willie Stark. Why does he do it
to me - Willie Stark? Why?"
Play clip (excerpt): ![All The King's Men](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Battleground (1949)
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- "Just so we're goin' back. That's
all that counts."
- "You mean you're not happy in the
service?"
- "I didn't say that. I love it."
- "You found a home in the Army,
chum."
- "Me, too. Never had it so good in my life."
- "Third platoon, on
your feet. Fall in."
- "Oh, no!"
- "About face. Forward march."
- "Hey Kinnie, whatever happened
to Jody?"
- "All right. Come on. Come on. What do you want these guys to
think, that you're a bunch of WACs? Alright, alright, pick it up, now. Hut,
two, three, hut, two, three, four...You had a good home but you left...Jody
was there when you left...Your baby was there when you left...Sound off...Cadence
count...Your baby was lonely, as lonely could be Until Jody provided company!
Ain't it great to have a pal, Who works so hard to keep up morale!...You
ain't got nothin' to worry about. He'll keep her happy till I get out! You
won't get out until the end of the war, In nineteen hundred and seventy-four..."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Battleground](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Bribe (1949)
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"What happened to Carwood? When you get around
to it, Mr. Rigby, you might call a cop." |
Champion (1949)
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- "He's dead. Brain hemorrhage."
- "Yes, sir, (it's) a bad time but... could you give me a statement
about your brother?"
- "You want a statement from me, huh? All right. I'll give
ya a statement. He was a champion. He went out like a champion. He was
a credit to the fight game, to the very end."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Champion](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Heiress (1949)
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- "He came back with the same lies.
The same silly phrases."
- "What... what are you saying?"
- "He has grown greedier
with the years. The first time he only wanted my money, now he wants
my love, too. Well, he came to the wrong house, and he came twice.
I shall see that he never comes a third time."
- "Catherine,
do you know what you're doing?"
- "Yes."
- "Poor Morris. Can you be so cruel?"
- "Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters."
(clock chiming, Morris' horse carriage arrives in street)
- "Right
here. Wait."
(doorbell ringing)
- "I will attend to that. It's for me."
- "Yes, miss."
(doorbell ringing)
- "Bolt it,
Maria."
- "Bolt it?"
- "Bolt the door, Maria."
- "Yes, miss."
(door bolting, more door knocking)
- "Good night,
Maria."
- "Good night, miss."
(continued door knocking)
- "Catherine? Catherine! Catherine? Catherine!... (repeated
and frantic pounding on door and calling out)"
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Heiress](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
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- "Well, I'm sorry. I hate to think
that I've spoiled your Christmas."
- "Well, you haven't spoiled it. I suppose I should
be thanking you."
- "Oh, no, you don't have to do that. But you, do you know what
I wish you would do? I wish you'd send this Newspickle about his
business and concentrate on me instead. Huh?"
- "Well, I can't. You already have
someone."
- "Oh, no, not yet. No."
- "Now, wait a minute. This is all wrong."
- "After
all, it is Christmas."
- "I know, but, Mr. Larkin..."
- "Oh, Veronica, I love you so.
PIease open Box 237 and take me out of my envelope."
- "Box 237!"
- "'Dear Friend.'"
- "You?"
- "Yes. Are
you disappointed?"
- "Psychologically,
I'm very confused, but personally I feel just wonderful."
Play clip (excerpt): ![In the Good Old Summertime](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, UK)
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- "Your grace... I represent the
magazine Tit-Bits by
whom I'm commissioned to approach you for the publication rights
of your memoirs."
- "My memoirs? Oh, my memoirs. My memoirs"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Kind Hearts and Coronets](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Madame Bovary (1949)
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"There are those who are offended by her, and
who see in Emma Bovary's life an attack upon public morality. Gentlemen
of the court, I maintain that there is truth in her story, and that
a morality which has within it no room for truth is no morality at
all. Men may dislike truth. Men may find truth offensive and inconvenient.
Men may persecute the truth, subvert it, try by law to suppress it.
But to maintain that men have the final power over truth is blasphemy
and the last illusion. Truth lives forever. Men do not." |
My Friend Irma (1949)
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- "Just think, honey, in five minutes,
I'll be Mrs. Steve Laird."
- "And, after five years, I'll be Mrs. Al... Oh,
I'm so nervous."
- "Don't worry, honey, nothing can happen to
us now. (to the camera) I was wrong. Anything can happen if you
live with my friend Irma."
Play clip (excerpt): ![My Friend Irma](wavfiles/sound.gif)
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The Reckless Moment (1949)
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"Tom, Tom, we've mailed your Christmas packages.
We're gonna have a blue Christmas tree. Everything's fine except we miss
you terribly. Yes, Tom." |
Samson and Delilah (1949)
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- "He was so strong. Why did he have
to die?"
- "His strength will never die, Saul.
Men will tell his story for a thousand years."
Play clip (excerpt): ![Samson and Delilah](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
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"There she goes. All right! Saddle
up! Let's get back in the war!"
Play clip (excerpt): ![Sands of Iwo Jima](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Set-Up (1949)
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- "Julie! I won tonight! - I won!"
- "Yes, you won tonight, Bill! We both won tonight!
We both won tonight!" |
They Live By Night (1949)
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(reading note) "Little old girl. I'm gonna
miss you, but I gotta do it this way. I'll send for both of you when
I can. No matter how long it takes. I've gotta see that kid. He's
lucky. He'll have you to keep him squared around. I Love You. Bowie.
Bowie."
Play clip (excerpt): ![They Live By Night](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
The Third Man (1949)
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- "l'll have to step on it if you're going
to catch that plane."
- "Calloway, can't you do something
about Anna?"
- "l'll do what l can, if she'll let me."
- "Wait a minute.
Let me out."
- "Well, there's not much time."
- "One can't just leave. Please."
- "Be sensible, Martins."
- "Haven't got a sensible name, Calloway."
Play clip (excerpt): ![The Third Man](wavfiles/sound.gif) |
White Heat (1949)
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- "Made it, Ma! Top of the world." (explosions)
- "Cody Jarrett. He
finally got to the top of the world. And it blew right up in his face."
Play clips (excerpt): (short) (extended) |