Tomorrow, the World! (1944)

Fredric March: Mike Frame

Quotes 

• Mike Frame : Jesse, you're my sister and I adore you; but, have you ever given five minutes thought to what's going on in the world?

• Mike Frame : Wait a minute, Emil. Miss Richards is Jewish.

  Emil Bruckner : You are joking?

  Frieda - Frame's Maid : No.

  Emil Bruckner : That is - regrettable.

  Mike Frame : It's not regrettable! You better remember that.

• Mike Frame : Once he mixes with American kids, Pat, especially, he'll find out what's what.

• Emil Bruckner : If it is necessary, I will die for the Führer!

  Mike Frame : Oh, I see. You want to die.

  Emil Bruckner : It is my duty. Are you - going to beat me?

  Mike Frame : Well, since you find death so pleasant, I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll kill you first and beat you afterwards.

• Emil Bruckner : I'm also prepared that you should torture me.

  Mike Frame : Now, listen to me. In America, we don't torture little boys, we reason with them. That's our secret weapon.

• Mike Frame : What happened? Come on tell me.

  Leona Richards : Oh, Mike, it's too long and too ugly. The point is he made me lose my temper. That's a confession of failure.

• Mike Frame : He's just a child. You've handled problem children before.

  Leona Richards : Plenty of them and I could always get to the root of the problem: malnutrition, a drunken father, or a neurotic mother. But, Emil isn't the case of maladjustment. He's perfectly adjusted to a Nazi society. He's been taught contempt for people who don't use force and he'll go on pushing us around until we give him the one answer he understands: a licking!

  Mike Frame : Le, you're the last person in the world I ever thought...

  Leona Richards : I know, we don't beat children. It's outdated. But, I still say it's the only cure for Emil. Not in haste. Not in anger. A carefully planned licking.

  Mike Frame : So, we stop using our heads and get out the rubber hose.

  Leona Richards : I didn't say that. I said a deliberate, carefully planned licking. And if you won't do it, someone must.