Saboteur (1942)

Otto Kruger: Charles Tobin

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• Barry Kane : You can't get away with this, Tobin! Even if I don't stop you, there will be others that will. A man like you can't last in a country like this.

  Charles Tobin : Very pretty speech - youthful, passionate, idealistic. You see I've already sent for the police.

  Barry Kane : You can't bluff me. You're hooked and you know it.

  Charles Tobin : Must I remind you that *you* are the fugitive from justice and not I. I'm a promient citizen, widely respected. You are an obscure young workman, wanted for the committing of an extremely unpopular crime. Now which of us do you think the police will believe?

• Charles Tobin : Power, yes... I want that as much as you want your job, or that girl. We all have different tastes as you can see, only I'm willing to back my tastes with the necessary force.

• Charles Tobin : You're one of the ardent believers - a good American. Oh, there are millions like you. People who play along, without asking questions. I hate to use the word stupid, but it seems to be the only one that applies. The great masses, the moron millions. Well, there are a few of us unwilling to troop along... a few of us who are clever enough to see that there's much more to be done than just live small complacent lives, a few of us in america who desire a more profitable type of government. When you think about it, Mr. Kane, the competence of totalitarian nations is much higher than ours. They get things done.

• Charles Tobin : You must watch yourself, Mr Kane. I'm telling you this for your own benefit, but you have the makings of an outstanding bore.

• Charles Tobin : You seem to have a soft spot for that young lady. You can't afford to make yourself that vulnerable, not when you're out - trying to save your country.

  Barry Kane : Why is it that you sneer every time you refer to this country? You've done pretty well here. I don't get it.

• Mr. Freeman : The most important thing is to make sure of everyone around us.

  Charles Tobin : Mr. Kane?

  Mr. Freeman : I'm just not sure. I want to know that he's all right.

  Charles Tobin : All right? What an understatement. He's much more than that! He's noble and fine and pure... So he pays the penalty that the noble and the fine and the pure must pay in this world: he's misjudged by everyone.

• Charles Tobin : I can assure you that contrary to what is supposed and to what he may himself have told you, that young man is certainly not one of his country's enemies.

  Mrs. Sutton : Charles, you're joking!

  Charles Tobin : I mean exactly what I say. Mr. Kane is definitely no part of our little organization.

• Charles Tobin : I'm leaving for the Caribbean now. My position here is more impossible than all of yours. I'm rather looking forward to Central America. Havana will be very gay this season. Somehow I've suddenly had enough of this country. The war has made it grim.

• Charles Tobin : I am a refugee. I have at last joined that revolting group of world travellers. One ultimately turns into the thing one despises most.