Conflict (1945)

Alexis Smith: Evelyn Turner

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• Dr. Mark Hamilton : Never having been married myself, I've always had a warm spot in my heart for those who have achieved it.

  Evelyn Turner : Achieved it?

  Dr. Mark Hamilton : Certainly, as a psychologist I can assure you a happy marriage is indeed a rare achievement.

  Kathryn Mason : Isn't that rather cynical?

  Dr. Mark Hamilton : Well, perhaps it is, but, you see, marriage is a very tricky business. People have impulses, compulsions, drives that to say towards escape, escape from loneliness. They seek their escape in the companionship of someone else and lo just when they think they've achieved it, they find they put on their own handcuffs.

• Evelyn Turner : Is your heart in a cage, Professor Holsworth?

  Prof. Norman Holsworth : Oh I give it a little birdseed now and then.

  Evelyn Turner : That's very strongminded of you, but I'm not quite convinced.

  Prof. Norman Holsworth : Neither am I.

• Prof. Norman Holsworth : You see, Doctor Hamilton belongs to the Freudian school of psychology, he believes that love rather than money is the root of all evil.

  Evelyn Turner : Why it's nothing of the kind. Beg your pardon, Doctor Hamilton, but love doesn't always cause unhappiness and trouble. It's been one of man's inspirations for centuries. Why it's been the basis of some of the greatest stories ever written. Look at Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, Abelard and Eloise.

  Richard Mason : Yes but look what happened to them.

  Evelyn Turner : Oh Dick that's not fair. You know what I mean, it doesn't matter what happens to people as long as they have something to live for.

  Dr. Mark Hamilton : But they didn't live for it, they died for it.

• Evelyn Turner : Are you ready yet?

  Richard Mason : Are we, Kathryn?

  Kathryn Mason : Certainly.

• Dr. Mark Hamilton : [fishing]  Any luck?

  Richard Mason : [holds up his fish]  Well if you call this luck.

  Dr. Mark Hamilton : [laughs]  I could use that for bait.

  Evelyn Turner : I caught one bigger than that but I didn't like the way he looked at me so I threw him back.

• Evelyn Turner : Love has been men's inspiration for centuries.

• Evelyn Turner : Do drive carefully, Dick. These mountain roads are so dangerous!

  Richard Mason : Yeah, I've heard that before.