The Red House (1947)
Edward G. Robinson: Pete Morgan
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Quotes
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Pete Morgan : Don't put such a high price on courage, it's an over-rated virtue.
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Pete Morgan : Sometimes we figure too much son, the wrong things. Things that can't ever be figured. Then it's bad, bad for everyone. It's quicksand!
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Nath Storm : You scared the daylights out of me last night.
Pete Morgan : The truth shouldn't scare anybody, man or boy.
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Pete Morgan : Whatever happiness I get I've got to find while I live.
Ellen Morgan : You can get happiness by giving it.
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Pete Morgan : [to Ellen] There's a curse on those woods.
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Pete Morgan : She hurt bad?
Nath Storm : She's dead.
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Pete Morgan : You defied the woods and you were hurt. She defied them and she's dead.
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Pete Morgan : Everything I love... dies.
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Pete Morgan : I picked up a bull whip and beat him till he wasn't handsome anymore, till he was dead! Finished!
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Pete Morgan : Now you listen to me. All I have in the world is you. If there's anything you want, I'll get it for you, But there's one thing you've got to do for me. You stay out of those woods!
Meg Morgan : I've grown up and I've got a right to do as I please.
Pete Morgan : I've never laid hands on you in my life. But I'll take the whip to you if you do!
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Pete Morgan : I can't let her go! As long as the red house stands in the quarry, my whole life is Meg's and her life is mine!
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Pete Morgan : Then you did kill her?
Pete Morgan : No, it was an accident, I was just trying to keep her quiet.
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Pete Morgan : [to Teller] There's no better way to enforce a 'no trespassing" sign than a bullet missng somebody's skull.
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Pete Morgan : You won't save yourself from the screams in the night, It'll lodge in your bones all your life!
Nath Storm : Screams from where?
Pete Morgan : From the red house!
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Pete Morgan : Seems there's enough trouble in this world without having to go out and look for it.
Tibby Renton : Well, I'm all the trouble he can handle if he only knew it.
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Pete Morgan : You know, when I was a young man and in love, Sunday was always a good day for spooning.
Nath Storm : Thanks for the use of the truck.
Pete Morgan : Always ready to give love a helping hand.
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Pete Morgan : [on the phone] Dr. Byrne? This is Pete Morgan, we need you. Our Meg's leg is broken. Come quick.
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Pete Morgan : Nothing has changed. Just as it was. Just as it was.
