The Spanish Main (1945)

Maureen O'Hara: Contessa Francesca

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• Don Juan Alvarado : My dear child, there is no reason why we shouldn't be married tomorrow.

  Contessa Francesca : Tomorrow, your excellency?

  Don Juan Alvarado : Well, yesterday, unfortunately, is impossible.

• Pillery Gow : Oh, let's hang him from the yardarm!

  Paree : Bring him head-out on fire!

  Pillery Gow : No, no, we got to do this properly. Step by step, limb from limb.

  Contessa Francesca : Can't you let him live somehow? Find a way for him to do some useful work?

  Don Juan Alvarado : Work? No, Contessa, yours is the cruelest of all suggestions.