Not as a Stranger (1955)

Robert Mitchum: Lucas Marsh

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• Dr. Aarons : I can see the picture you got of yourself already... a country road and an old Ford. It's a white house and you are Saint George complete in spotless armor. You get to a farmhouse. There's this man bleeding to death. Now alone, without instruments, without assistance, you perform an impossible operation, and because your heart is pure, you save him.

  Lucas Marsh : I haven't any th...

  Dr. Aarons : [Interrupting]  You're going to go down that road. When you get there, you know what you're going to find? A man with a boil on his backside. You hear me? A boil on his backside! You will lance it and go home.

  Lucas Marsh : [Smiling ironically and turning to leave]  Good-bye, Doctor.

  Dr. Aarons : [Loudly across the room]  Marsh, you're one of the most brilliant students we've ever had here. You'll be aa great physician. Stop living your life like a Greek tragedy, or you'll muff it!

  Lucas Marsh : [Soberly]  Thank you.

  Dr. Aarons : [Quietly]  Goodbye, Doctor.

• Lucas Marsh : All right, I'll ask. What happened?

  Alfred Boone : Nothing.

  Lucas Marsh : Nothing? A tiger like you?

  Alfred Boone : This kid's very sick. She needs a lot of help., She's got an absolute obsession about virtue.

  Lucas Marsh : You mean she didn't go for you, huh?

  Alfred Boone : I think she's hyper-thyroid.

  Lucas Marsh : Well, there are plenty more fish in the sea.

  Alfred Boone : Yeah, but this fish cost me 18 bucks in a night club.

• Kristina Hedvigson : [referring to Ava Gardner in "The Barefoot Contessa"]  When l was small, l used to hate women like that.

  Lucas Marsh : Like what?

  Kristina Hedvigson : The girl in the movie. l used to think it wasn't fair. lf tings were arranged right, all women would be that pretty.

  Lucas Marsh : Well you're pretty. You've got a nice figure.

  Kristina Hedvigson : Oh?

  Lucas Marsh : You know what l mean - you - you're put together right. Everything fits - the way you move - the way you walk - even the way you talk.

• Kristina Hedvigson : l'm just not sexy the way she is.

  Lucas Marsh : You don't know what you are - so stop talking like that.

  Kristina Hedvigson : What do you want with me?

• Bruni : You like Svenskafood, Luke?

  Lucas Marsh : Yeah.

  Bruni : Kristi fixed it. All last night, early this morning she worked. She cooks good, ya?

  Lucas Marsh : Wonderful.

  Bruni : She sews good, too. That dress - she made it. Even her underwear she makes sometimes. Believe me, she's got what it takes.

• Mrs. Fields : l just don't know what to do with him, Doctor. lf he isn't running around like a wild lndian getting all dirty, he's getting into trouble in the kitchen or pestering his father on his day off or bothering me to go to a movie, and on top of that he keeps blinking, blinking, blinking, it drives me crazy and there must be something you can do about it, Doctor.

  Lucas Marsh : l have a feeling, Mrs. Fields, he'd stop blinking if you'd stop talking.

• Alfred Boone : This is not the kind of a dame you marry!

  Lucas Marsh : l'm marrying her!

  Alfred Boone : Look, a Doctor's wife gets him patients. She went to the right school. Her folks belong to the right country club. She's charming. She was brought up that way. This dame ought to marry a farmer!

• Lucas Marsh : Why didn't you send her to surgery? You know when you cut it off like that you may have released cancer cells right into her bloodstream?

  Alfred Boone : l don't think it was a melanoma.

  Lucas Marsh : You don't think. How would you know? You spend all your time making passes at the nurses.

• Ed - 67 Year Old Patient : Dave, have l got what l think l have? Now don't kid me!

  Dr. Dave W. Runkleman : Yes, Ed.

  Ed - 67 Year Old Patient : Will it hurt?

  Lucas Marsh : We can take care of that.

  Ed - 67 Year Old Patient : Just like that, eh?

  Dr. Dave W. Runkleman : You're sixty-seven years old, Ed. You've lived it up like an international playboy.

  Ed - 67 Year Old Patient : Takes one to know one, Dave. No regrets!

• Lucas Marsh : Well, you're gonna have to quit.

  Dr. Dave W. Runkleman : Look, l've already got old man's kidneys and trouble in the prostate. lt's not going to be so much fun from now on, anyway.

• Lucas Marsh : What instructions did he give?

  Nurse Odell : None. He never does in these cases.

  Lucas Marsh : These cases?

  Nurse Odell : When their time comes Doctor always lets the old ones cross over peacefully. This one won't last until morning.