No Highway in the Sky (1951)

Glynis Johns: Marjorie Corder

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• Marjorie Corder : I'm afraid he's got some rather odd ideas.

  Monica Teasdale : He certainly has. He told me to sit on the floor in the men's room. If that's not an odd idea I'd like to meet one.

  Marjorie Corder : I think he was just telling you the best place to be if there was an accident.

  Monica Teasdale : At this altitude?

  Marjorie Corder : I think he's right about it being the safest place.

  Monica Teasdale : If he's right about that, he may be right about the tail falling off.

• Monica Teasdale : The scientist says the plane is going to crash, the captain says it's not. Your vote doesn't count because you have to side with the captain which means it's a tie.

  [the propellers slow] 

  Monica Teasdale : What's that?

  Marjorie Corder : He seems to be saving fuel.

  Monica Teasdale : He wouldn't do that without a reason.

• Theodore Honey : Oh there'll really be a delay for everybody now won't there?

  Marjorie Corder : I don't think there's any doubt about that. Tell me why...

  Monica Teasdale : [enters]  He did do it, didn't he?

  Marjorie Corder : Yes I'm afraid he did.

  Monica Teasdale : If you believe in something, you believe in doing something about it, don't you?

  Theodore Honey : Well they wouldn't listen to me and the lever was right there so I just *keh* pulled it.

  Monica Teasdale : That's sticking your neck out pretty far isn't it if you just thought it was going to crash?

  Theodore Honey : I tried to get them to ground the airplane, they wouldn't listen to me and the lever was right there so I just, I...

  Monica Teasdale : You just pulled it. Don't those things cost an awful lot of money?

  Theodore Honey : Oh a tremendous amount of money! This is going to cause a good deal of trouble.

  Monica Teasdale : I should think it might.

  Theodore Honey : I don't know what they're going to do. I've never had any experience with anything like this before.

  Monica Teasdale : I should think nobody has. I think this is a kind of world record.

• Marjorie Corder : Man kills airplane. There's apt to be a lot in the papers about that.

• Marjorie Corder : The altitutde, Miss Teasdale, sometimes causes a highly nervous state in certain passengers. I'm sure it had that effect on Mister Honey for a while but he's quiet now.

  Monica Teasdale : That's more than I am. There's about to be another passenger on this plane in a highly nervous state.

• Marjorie Corder : Miss Tesdale, would you like your coffee in your own seat?

  Monica Teasdale : No, put it over here. Oh as a matter of fact, let's go back there where we won't wake anybody no matter how much we talk. That way i can say my prayers if I feel like it.

• Marjorie Corder : Just what was it that you think you did wrong? You did think there'd be a crash didn't you?

  Theodore Honey : Yes but what I should have done is offer my hypothesis to the captain in an orderly manner and let him make his own decision but I didn't do that. No, when they wouldn't listen to me I kept thinking about you lying dead in Labrador like that other stewardess and Miss Teasdale, and all the rest of them and I wasn't orderly at all. not at all and the lever was right th ere so I *keh* pulled it.

  Marjorie Corder : Amd that seemed wrong to you.

  Theodore Honey : Of course it seemed wrong. How is anybody going to take my work seriously if I go around doing things like that? you know they're saying that I'm crazy now? And I don't blame them.

  Marjorie Corder : You don't mean that if you had it all to do again, you'd just let it go ahead and crash.

  Theodore Honey : That's just the point, I'd probably do it all again.

• Marjorie Corder : What happeend?

  Theodore Honey : Nothing, nothing happened at all, my figures clearly said that the tail should fall off and the tail didn't fall off. It's 7% above my figure, it didn't fall off.

  Marjorie Corder : Oh I'm sorry, what happens now?

  Theodore Honey : I've been thinking about that on the way home, I'll go to the inquery and stand up and I'll explain my figures to a group of very angry men and they'll reject the whole thing. I'll sit down, I'll sit down and listen to them say that I'm insane because of what I did in Gander, and perhaps I am, I'm not sure you know. A wualified psychiatrist will testify to that, I talked to 3 of them this afternoon, no that was yesterday, wasn't it? They showed me a page of ink blots and asked me if it reminded me of elephants and tigers, I said no it didn't remind me of elephants and ti - they were just ink blots.

• Marjorie Corder : If you believe something is right, you have to do something if you want to live with yourself. If you don't, you'll have to pay for it sooner or later.

• Marjorie Corder : I've been a bright lassie.

• Marjorie Corder : You may unfasten your seat belts now and smoke, if you like. My name is Marjorie Corder. This is Peggy Miller. We're here to do anything we can to make your trip pleasant and comfortable. We'll be glad to give you refreshments and drinks quite free of charge. And although we both might regret it personally, no tipping is permitted. Thank you, and we're glad to have you aboard.

• Dobson - Co-Pilot : Hey, Marjorie. I've got news for you. Your boffin's crackers.

  Marjorie Corder : What's the matter? Did he ask you some questions you couldn't answer?

  Dobson - Co-Pilot : Clean off his rocker. He says the tail's gonna fall off.

  Marjorie Corder : He didn't.

  Dobson - Co-Pilot : He did.

• Theodore Honey : Couldn't you believe me, Miss Corder? You've been so very kind and you -you ought to live and get married and bring up a family. You'd be very good at that.

  Marjorie Corder : Well, thank you very much for that, Mr. Honey. You said that just about as nicely as anybody could. You know, I'd almost not go if it would help you stop worrying, but it's my job, and there's no way of making sure, and I don't think it's right to walk out on something like that.

• Marjorie Corder : It looks as though he wears one suit and goes to sleep in the other. I don't know how long it can be since he bought something for himself.

  Monica Teasdale : I thought you were the one who thought a man shouldn't have things done for him.

  Marjorie Corder : That goes for his character, but not necessarily his trousers.

  Monica Teasdale : That's very domestic. You're full of surprises.

• Marjorie Corder : Well, did you notice anything?

  Theodore Honey : Well, she was asleep.

  Marjorie Corder : Anything different, I meant, about the house.

  Theodore Honey : Well, you - you haven't got your clothes on.

• Marjorie Corder : I know you have to be a scientist. I know you have important work to do. But you're a person too, Mr. Honey.

  Theodore Honey : Well, it's evidently quite difficult to be a person, Miss Corder.

• Marjorie Corder : I wish you wouldn't go.

  Monica Teasdale : Maybe I'll be back. Never can tell.