Not as a Stranger (1955)

Frank Sinatra: Alfred Boone

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• Alfred Boone : [to Lucas]  Sometimes I wish I had 75 more pounds. I'd belt you one!

• Dr. Dave W. Runkleman : [Meeting Al for the first time]  I was told you'd have a Cadillac.

  Alfred Boone : [Wryly]  It's just a front. The Cadillac has me.

• Alfred Boone : l think it's a dirty, stinking, lousy thing to do. You're taking advantage of a poor square-head who's afraid of being an old maid.

• 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.

• 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.