The Red House (1947)

Lon McCallister: Nath Storm

Photos 

29 more photos

Quotes 

• Nath Storm : She's like an ornery heifer sometimes, hard to hold down.

• Nath Storm : A lot of guys are working on getting to the moon in a rocket. They think that's worth working for. But I like the ground around here and I'd just as soon keep my feet on it.

• Nath Storm : You scared the daylights out of me last night.

  Pete Morgan : The truth shouldn't scare anybody, man or boy.

• Nath Storm : Sometimes it seems the more I know about women the less I know about women.

• Nath Storm : You do more than talk things over, you come back here a bride. We don't want any dead ducks in the family.

• Nath Storm : Go and stick your head under a faucet and cool off Tibby.

• Nath Storm : She's sleeping awfully sound... she's dead.

• Pete Morgan : She hurt bad?

  Nath Storm : She's dead.

• [last lines] 

  Nath Storm : I thought I'd better finish what Ellen set out to do, Sweetheart. I set fire to the red house. Looking forwards is much better than looking back.

• Nath Storm : Look, mom, why don't you close the store and marry Don Brent?

• Nath Storm : There's some connection between Pete's red house and whoever hit me.

• Nath Storm : I thought Pete told you not to go in those woods.

  Meg Morgan : I can't help it. I want to.

• Nath Storm : Ok, Sunday we'll go prowling.

• Meg Morgan : I don't care what Pete said, I wish we were prowling in the woods today.

  Nath Storm : I wish Tibby'd forgotten our date.

  Meg Morgan : So do I.

• Nath Storm : Tibby, you've got Meg all wrong, didn't she ask you out to spend the day and have dinner?

  Tibby Renton : Yeah, but why?

  Nath Storm : Can't anybody do anything without you figuring they've got an angle?

  Tibby Renton : I've always got an angle. I've got an angle on you! A girl always has a reason when she does something.

• Nath Storm : Why don't you two go and get married while you're still young enough to enjoy it?

  Mrs. Storm : Shame on you, talking to your mother that way.

• Nath Storm : If you don't marry him now, he'll meet some chick up north, and then you'll be a dead duck.

• 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!

• Tibby Renton : Do you love me?

  Nath Storm : Sure.

  Tibby Renton : Just keep me well kissed. I like to be kissed.

• 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.

• Tibby Renton : Would it be too much to ask that we spend next Sunday by ourselves? Just you and me? Or is it more important to play hide and seek in the woods with Meg?

  Nath Storm : Go on, get madder. It makes your cheeks pink.

  Tibby Renton : Don't think you're going to talk me into a kiss goodbye. I want you to miss 'em, long enough to make them more important than - haunted houses. So save it for next Sunday.

• Nath Storm : Well, that's a well one you are keeping a secret, blabbing to Pete.

  Tibby Renton : I didn't blab, it just slipped out. And a fine swimming date we had, I don't think.

  Nath Storm : You know, Tibby, you're might pretty, especially when you're mad. And I guess maybe, maybe when you're mad, you're just about the prettiest gal there is.

• Nath Storm : And what's your reason for dawdling with that guy Teller?

• Tibby Renton : if you love someone, you'll do anything for 'em.

  Nath Storm : That works both ways.

• Tibby Renton : I wanna clear out these hills when I get married.

  Nath Storm : Since when?

  Tibby Renton : Since now.

• Nath Storm : I better get back to the Morgans.

  Tibby Renton : What for?

  Nath Storm : Let you go on with your dreaming. I'm disturbing your sleep. City house, station wagons, limousines. Great. Boy, when you dream, you really dream good.

  Tibby Renton : Well, aren't I worth working for?

• Nath Storm : I'll bet.

  Tibby Renton : You bet what?

  Nath Storm : I'll bet - he said he'd get off your rocks.

• Nath Storm : Your hair tickles.

• Tibby Renton : You might as well still be working at the Morgans for all the fun you are to me.

  Nath Storm : If you'd spend a little more time working around this place instead of preening your feathers like a pet canary, maybe you'd know what it is to be tired at night.