Island in the Sun (1957)

Basil Sydney: Julian Fleury

Quotes 

• Maxwell Fleury : [reading from a newspaper]  "Presumably they did not know that Julian Fleury's mother, who died in childbirth, was a Jamaican with native ancestry" Is it true?

  Julian Fleury : It's true.

  Maxwell Fleury : What were you lashing out when you tried to slap me? Your own guilt, your betrayal of us?

  Julian Fleury : Betrayal? Your mother never knew?

  Maxwell Fleury : She knew. Didn't you mother?

  Mrs. Fleury : I knew.

  Julian Fleury : But how?

  Mrs. Fleury : An anonymous letter. Came ten years ago.

  Julian Fleury : And you never mentioned it?

  Julian Fleury : I saw no reason to. I wanted to keep things as they were.

  Maxwell Fleury : Faithful wife. Noble mother.

  Julian Fleury : Maxwell, stop it.

  Jocelyn Fleury : How do you expect him to feel? How do you think I feel? To believe that you belong to one kind of a world and then suddenly... when I asked you if there was any reason that I shouldn't marry Euan, you said no.

  Julian Fleury : I said that was no *good* reason.

  Jocelyn Fleury : How can you say that? Euan's heir to a title. Can you picture a black man sitting in the House of Lords if we had a son?

  Julian Fleury : There's no need to exaggerate. My mother was three-quarters white, I've only one-sixteenth colored blood. The chances are your children will be *completely* white.