Cluny Brown (1946)
Peter Lawford: Andrew Carmel
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Quotes
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Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Why do people go to cocktail parties?
Andrew Carmel : Because people give cocktail parties.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Why do people give them?
John Frewen : Because people go to them.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : It's a vicious circle... a perpetual motion.
Andrew Carmel : It's depressing. Parties and people laughing with Europe on the brink.
John Frewen : Yes, Hitler in Vienna and Prague and people go around having fun.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Oh, I'm so tired of hearing about Hitler and Mussolini and...
Andrew Carmel : Betty, I'm surprised! You talk like a superficial girl who thinks of nothing but her pink and white complexion.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : You seemed to like it until Hitler came between us.
Andrew Carmel : I... I still do.
John Frewen : Oh, intensely, Betty.
Andrew Carmel : But you must realize we're on the verge of a war.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Well then, stop talking and do something about it.
Andrew Carmel : I have. I've written a letter to the Times.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Then there's nothing to worry about.
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Andrew Carmel : [hearing news of the war] I intend to write another letter to the Times.
Adam Belinski : Good.
Andrew Carmel : [uncertainly] No... No, I'll join the R.A.F.
Adam Belinski : Better... join the R.A.F, and rise above the Times.
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Sir Henry Carmel : You mean the beggar's broke?
Andrew Carmel : Oh, you can't call a man broke just because he hasn't any money.
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John Frewen : Everyone makes such an absurd fuss over her. She's simply intolerable.
Andrew Carmel : She has the worst manners of any girl I know.
John Frewen : She's cold, conceited and callous...
Andrew Carmel : You, uh, ask her to marry you lately?
John Frewen : Day before yesterday.
Andrew Carmel : What'd she say?
John Frewen : She said "No," as usual. She doesn't stop to think. She hasn't any brains.
Andrew Carmel : If she turned me down once, I don't think I'd ever ask her again.
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Andrew Carmel : [recognizing Belinski asleep on the bed] Good heavens!
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : What's the matter?
Andrew Carmel : It's Belinski.
John Frewen : Not Adam Belinski?
Andrew Carmel : Yes, Adam Belinski.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Is he a gangster?
Andrew Carmel : Don't be an idiot, Betty. He's a Czech.
John Frewen : He's a great man. He's famous.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Well, whatever for?
Andrew Carmel : He's a writer. A professor at Prague. One of Hitler's worst enemies.
John Frewen : That's why the Nazis - he's probably just a jump ahead of them now. I wonder how he got to London.
Andrew Carmel : The underground, no doubt.
John Frewen : What a man.
Andrew Carmel : He looks everything like his pictures. Better in fact. Nobler. Much nobler.
John Frewen : More serene.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : And he snores.
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Andrew Carmel : It takes a lot of nerve for a man in his position to show himself at the Ritz.
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Andrew Carmel : Professor, we both feel that the 20 pounds you were gracious to accept is most inadequate.
John Frewen : Most!
Andrew Carmel : Would you reconsider and take 50? We'd feel much better about it.
John Frewen : Oh, much better.
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Adam Belinski : However, should the occasion arise when I need 30 additional pounds, you will give it to me, and nobody else.
Andrew Carmel : Is that a promise?
Adam Belinski : My word of honor.
John Frewen : Oh, we appreciate this.
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Andrew Carmel : A great man!
John Frewen : Really a great man!
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Andrew Carmel : He's fighting for a new and better world?
Sir Henry Carmel : What for?
Andrew Carmel : What for? Haven't you heard of the Nazis?
Sir Henry Carmel : Oh yes, German chaps. Always wanted to see one. Send him down, by all means.
Andrew Carmel : Father, he isn't a Nazi. He's fighting the Nazis. He's a Czech. The Nazis are after him.
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Andrew Carmel : Battleships and tanks won't help you. Believe me, England won't be safe until we produce our own Belinskis.
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Sir Henry Carmel : What the devil are Belinskis?
Andrew Carmel : What the devil are Belinskis? Oh, I give up... what are Belinskis?
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Andrew Carmel : Why, that's Betty Cream. What's she doing here?
Adam Belinski : She came this morning for the weekend.
Andrew Carmel : Well, why didn't you tell me?
Adam Belinski : What do you care? You're through with women.
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Andrew Carmel : Betty!
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Hello, darling.
Andrew Carmel : Why did you come here?
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Your mother invited me.
Andrew Carmel : Why did you accept?
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Why, I didn't want to refuse.
Andrew Carmel : That doesn't make sense.
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Andrew Carmel : How was I to know you'd have the nerve to come down here after the row we had?
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Did we have a row? I don't remember.
Andrew Carmel : Oh, this is too much. We had a row that all London is talking about. The kind of row that London won't forget for a long time. But what's a row to you? Nothing! You haven't even the decency to acknowledge that we had one.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : I don't want to hurt you, darling. If we ever have a row again, do tell me we're having one so we may have a long long chat about it afterwards.
Andrew Carmel : Oh, rot!
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : See you later, darling.
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Andrew Carmel : There's only one thing I can say for her. She sits a horse well. Hang it!
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Andrew Carmel : Oh, darling, trust me. Please trust me.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Darling, if I trust you now, I'll always have to trust you. And I won't.
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Andrew Carmel : I'm very fond of the professor, but after all, walking into you room like that.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : Thank heavens he did. If I hadn't screamed last night, we wouldn't be engaged today. You always behaved so well, I might have died an old maid.
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Andrew Carmel : You're so right, Betty. We all behave too well. We never do the wrong thing at the right time. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, "What England needs is more Belinskis."
Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream : I think one is quite enough.
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Adam Belinski : But I think you ought to know that I was once the lightweight champion of all Czechoslovakia.
Andrew Carmel : And I think you should know that I was middleweight champion of all Oxford and Cambridge.