Riptide (1934)

Robert Montgomery: Tommie Trent

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• Tommie Trent : Forget all that solid routine that they call living. Spread your wings and flutter with me sometimes.

  Mary : Ha-ha. I forgot how to flutter.

  Tommie Trent : I can teach you! Wouldn't it be fun! Wouldn't it be marvelous! Think of the thrill of knowing that just around the corner there was fun and laughter.

• Mary : Well, you might have been killed, I suppose you know that.

  Tommie Trent : Would you really care? Really?

  Mary : Of course. What do you think I'm made of?

  Tommie Trent : Rainbows.

• Tommie Trent : All I needed was that girl.

  Erskine : Listen, you can write her off your next year's income tax as an unavoidable loss.

  Tommie Trent : She trembled! She fluttered!

  Erskine : I know. But she'll flutter just as well tomorrow.

  Tommie Trent : Oh, no, she won't; not her. She's got 'conscience' written all over her face. At this moment, she is cooling off - like some beautiful volcano that has decided not to wipe out a lot of Italian villages.

• Tommie Trent : See that the lady has nothing that she wants, Erskine. I'll return in a jiffy.

  Erskine : You'll never be missed.

  Mary : Ha-ha. He's a scream.

  Erskine : See these gray hairs? Try living with him for a week.

  Mary : Might be stimulating.

  Erskine : Look at me. I-I'm stimulated.

  Mary : Oh! Is that what you call it?

• Tommie Trent : Oh. Oh. Oh my, oh my, oh my. What an age. What a world.

  Mary : What's wrong with it? I find it a very pleasant world.

  Tommie Trent : It's all part of the coming of the great catastrophe.

  Mary : What is?

  Tommie Trent : When girls like you turn out to be prudes!

• Tommie Trent : A leopard cannot change its spots. No more can you, duckie.

  Mary : Can't a woman forget her past, whatever its been, when she marries and settles down?

• Tommie Trent : If you'd only be true to yourself. Listen. Listen to those birds up there. They don't have to drink to be gay. That don't have to doll up and gab a lot of nonsense!

• Tommie Trent : We could be happy, too, Mary. Two people like us.

  Mary : I am happy.

  Tommie Trent : No, I mean two kindred spirits, like you and me.

  Mary : How?

  Tommie Trent : They could, eh, they could sleep all day. They could get up just when the evening was gonna get gay and they could dance and take long walks into the moonlight. Then, back and change and out on horses and riding into the dawn. Just when everybody else was waking up to face the day, they could be flitting in and out of warm shower baths and pulling down the blinds on trouble and bores and telephones. Then, they'd be up in the evening and drink steaming hot coffee and pull up the shades and let that ol' moon in again. It would be paradise, wouldn't it? They'd be children of the night.

  Mary : [Smiling]  Satan!

• Tommie Trent : Well, Mary, if he won't believe you, why should he take me for a Gideon Bible? I don't look like one, do I?

• Tommie Trent : Have a drink?

  Mary : Love to!

  Tommie Trent : Name it!

  Mary : Eh, French 75.

  Tommie Trent : Same here. French 75, boom!

  Mary : Boom yourself! And everyone else.

  Tommie Trent : That a girl.