The Unholy Four (1954)

William Sylvester: Philip Vickers

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• Philip Vickers : Joan, how'd you like to go down to the cottage for a while.

  Joan Merrill : I don't understand.

  Philip Vickers : Angie and I have a lot of years to make up for. We'd like to be alone. If the cottage doesn't appeal to you, choose a hotel. I'd suggest a trip somewhere if it weren't for the police.

  Joan Merrill : If you want to get rid of me, Philip, why don't you just say so?

  Philip Vickers : All right, I say so!

• Philip Vickers : That's not a sweater she's knitting - it's a noose. She and Treherne are going to fasten it on me together and tie it into a true lover's knot. She's been down there since early morning trying to talk me right into death row.

• Philip Vickers : Thanks for getting Angie out of that.

  Joan Merrill : There's nothing to thank me for.

  Philip Vickers : I know. I was only trying to be civil.

• Philip Vickers : Even at that distance a woman's skirts look different from a man's trousers.

• Voice in Nightmare : Turn around, Vickers! Turn around, Vickers! Turn around, Vickers! Turn around, Vickers! Turn around, Vickers! Turn around, Vickers! Turn around, Vickers!

  Philip Vickers : [suddenly waking]  Turn around, Vickers!

• Philip Vickers : I suppose I remember those words because even when you're drugged you remember a sentence of death.

• Philip Vickers : I don't know what hit me or how long it was before I came to. But when I did I was aboard the Mexican tramp with nothing in my pocket to tell me who I was. Nothing in my head either. Except a big hole.

• [first lines] 

  Philip Vickers : [to dog]  Hello, Coolin, boy. Hello, old boy. You didn't forget, did you, huh?

• [last lines] 

  Philip Vickers : Well, thanks for the ride, Treherne.

  Angie : Goodbye.

  Philip Vickers : Goodbye.

  Insp. Treherne : Goodbye.

• Insp. Treherne : [leaving]  You'll be hearing from us, Mr. Vickers.

  Philip Vickers : We'd be most unhappy if we didn't, Inspector.

  [turning to the party guests] 

  Philip Vickers : And now if you don't mind, you can all leave, and while you're at it, start covering up tracks and rehearsing alibis. Somebody's gonna need a good one!