A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Kim Hunter: June

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• Peter : June, are you pretty?

  June : Not bad.

  Peter : Can you hear me as well as I hear you?

  June : Yes.

  Peter : You've got a good voice. You've got guts too. It's funny - I've known dozens of girls: I've been in love with some of them, but an American girl whom I've never seen and who I never shall see will hear my last words. That's funny. It's rather sweet.

  Peter : June, if you're around when they pick me up, turn your head away?

• Abraham Farlan : Child, where were you born?

  June : In Boston Sir.

  Abraham Farlan : Do you know this man?

  June : I think so.

  Abraham Farlan : You think so?

  June : I only met him a few days ago.

  Abraham Farlan : You hardly know him. How can you think you love him?

  June : But I do love him.

  Abraham Farlan : Nonsense my child.

  Doctor Frank Reeves : I object. Council will withdraw the expression.

  June : It's all right Frank. he's right. There's no sense in love.

  Abraham Farlan : Wisdom still flowers in Boston.

• Peter : [over radio]  Where were you born?

  June : Boston.

  Peter : Mass.?

  June : Yes.

  Peter : That's a place to be born, history was made there. Are you in love with anybody? No, no don't answer that.

  June : I could love a man like you, Peter.

  Peter : I love you, June. You're life and I'm leaving you.

• June : [opening words, before faces shown on screen]  Request your position. Come in, Lancaster. Come in, Lancaster.

  Peter : Position - nil, repeat nil. Age - 27, 27, did you get that? Very important. Education - interrupted, violently interrupted. Religion - Church of England. Politics - Conservative by nature, Labour by experience. What's your name?

• [last lines] 

  [waking up after operation] 

  Peter : Hello.

  June : Hello.

  Peter : We won.

  June : I know darling.

• June : Received your message. We can hear you. Are you wounded? Repeat. Are you wounded? Are you bailing out?

  Peter : What's your name?

  June : June.

  Peter : Yes June, I'm bailing out. I'm bailing out but there's a catch, I've got no parachute.

• Doctor Frank Reeves : [talking to Peter]  I've got bad news for you.

  June : Then why the grin?

  Doctor Frank Reeves : You're going with me.

  June : Where to?

  Doctor Frank Reeves : [talking to both June and Peter]  To my house, for two reasons, first I want to meet this chap next time he drops in and second I like a nice girl around the house and she only come to see me to borrow a book, and she's a slow reader

• Doctor Frank Reeves : Tell me, do you believe in the survival of human personality after death?

  Peter : I thought you said you read my verses.

  [to June] 

  Doctor Frank Reeves : Do you?

  June : I don't know, er, I'd never thought about it, do you?

  Doctor Frank Reeves : I don't know, I've thought about it too much.