Bad for Each Other (1953)

Lizabeth Scott: Helen Curtis

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• Dr. Tom Owen : What are you looking for? Another moose head on your wall?

  Helen Curtis : [laughs]  You might be a good looking moose head at that!

  Dr. Tom Owen : Nobody's gonna collect me and hang me on any wall.

  Helen Curtis : Any experienced collector will tell you, Colonel, that prized items are always given special treatment.

  Dr. Tom Owen : Just how much experience have you had?

  Helen Curtis : A great deal. Perhaps too much. Twice married, twice divorced.

• Dr. Tom Owen : I've met women like you in half the capitols of the world. You've been everywhere, done everything, seen everything, had everything, and that's still not good enough.

  Helen Curtis : I'm not interested in your diagnosis.

  [She starts to leave, he grabs her and they kiss] 

• Helen Curtis : I don't like to be kept waiting.

  Dr. Tom Owen : You'll learn if you hang around doctors long enough.

• Helen Curtis : Colonel, all I'm suggesting is that you take off your uniform and accept Dr. Gleeson's offer.

  Dr. Tom Owen : His offer to do what? Patch up a bunch of neurotics and rich alcoholics like Rita Thornberg? In the army, I'm a doctor treating real patients. Here?

  Helen Curtis : The rich get just as sick as the poor.

  Dr. Tom Owen : Of course they do. When they're really sick, not developing imaginary illnesses.

• Helen Curtis : May I pay you a small compliment?

  Dr. Tom Owen : If it's not too small.

  Helen Curtis : I didn't get much sleep this morning because of you. There were four calls. All women. Asking about Colonel Tom Owen.

  Dr. Tom Owen : Did you take their numbers?

  Helen Curtis : I told them I saw you first. Occupied territory.

  Dr. Tom Owen : You know, that might be fun. Being occupied.

  Helen Curtis : It could be.

• Dr. Tom Owen : I asked you to marry me. I'd still like you to.

  Helen Curtis : [laugh]  Are you sure you want to marry a girl who can't do anything except write checks?

  Dr. Tom Owen : You'll have a chance to learn a lot more than that. I'm quitting Gleeson.

  Helen Curtis : You're going back to Coalville?

  Dr. Tom Owen : 'm going back to medicine. There was no ghost surgery down in that mine tonight. I wasn't standing in for Gleeson or anybody else. I was on my own. That's the way it's got to be from now on. A man had to die to drive that into me.

  Helen Curtis : What difference does it matter where you practice? A few hours ago right here in this house you told my aunt that a doctor's business was saving lives no matter whose they were.

  Dr. Tom Owen : A few hours ago I was still looking for guarantees. I thought that's what I wanted. Security. I just learned that the only security, the only guarantees, the only chance a man's got to win is the way he uses what is given to work with. That's why I'm quitting Gleeson and going back to Coalville.

  Helen Curtis : I could never get use to Coalville.