Five Miles to Midnight (1962)

Anthony Perkins: Robert Macklin

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• Robert Macklin : [talking to a cat]  How do you do? Come on in! What's the matter? Not in the mood? Here, kitty, kitty, kitty. Time for a coffee break. Well, what's new in the outside world today? Has the price of catnip gone up again? Hey cat you sure got a pretty coat. Would my wife envy you.

• Robert Macklin : Ah, Lisa, Lisa, angel eyes! The most beautiful girl ever to be picked up on a second class bus from Naples. Please, please forgive me. Listen, its just that I care too much about you, that's all. Sometimes, like tonight, I get the idea that I might lose you. I just go crazy, I guess. Lisa, if you ever left me, I don't now what I'd do. I just don't know.

• Robert Macklin : A dry martini's all we got to defend ourselves against the jet age, according to Rule One of the Ex-Flyers Keep-It-Up Society.

• Robert Macklin : You two girls ought to collaborate on a book: Quaint Eating Places In Gay Paris For Unaccompanied Ladies.

• Lisa Macklin : We might as well face up to it, once and for all. Bob, our marriage isn't a marriage, it never has been. It's a spoiled little boy with a nurse maid.

  Robert Macklin : With such a beautiful nurse maid.

  Lisa Macklin : Bob, please!

  Robert Macklin : Well, I am pretty much of a bust, I guess, and you're right, we are kind of an odd combination. But, even if you don't know it, you need me just as much as I need you. It's our kind of love - which makes the world go 'round. Rather bumpily sometimes, but, 'round it goes!

• Robert Macklin : Give my love to Barbara at dinner. Oh, by the way, I hope it is Barbara; because, if there is another man, I just - bang - bang. Ciao!

• Robert Macklin : I'm going to buy you diamond tiaras, sable coats, and yachts with sails flapping all over the place, and a palace in Kashmir. Real estate is way down in Kashmir these days. Lisa, just don't tell anyone anything. Give me a little time and its all going to be glorious for you and your new, very loving, very rich, very dead - husband.

• Lisa Macklin : Bob, let me see your leg. It looks infected.

  Robert Macklin : No, no, no. It's nothing. Nothing. Just a tiny smidge of gangrene.

• Johnny : It took me quite a while to figure out where you live. I wanted to try yesterday, but, my Daddy called from...

  Robert Macklin : Where's your Dad?

  Johnny : At the office. He came home early yesterday; but, most of the time I'm alone.

  Robert Macklin : What about your Mother?

  Johnny : Oh, she lives in England. Do you keep Cokes in there?

  Robert Macklin : Yeah, yeah. Cokes, heroin, moonshine, opium.

  Johnny : I'll take a Coke.

• Robert Macklin : My poor Neapolitan firecracker. Married all these years to a guy who turned her into an iceberg! Correction: not an iceberg. An iceberg is ninety-eight percent underwater and you're not ninety-eight percent underwater, are you?

  Lisa Macklin : Bob...

  Robert Macklin : Angel eyes, you're still my wife! It's a wife's duty to love and cherish her husband, even if he is no longer among the living. N'est-ce pa?

• Robert Macklin : It's a far cry from Scafati, isn't it? Boy, were you willing and eager in Scafati. You were so hot to get out of that stinking little dump, that any guy with a couple of bucks in his pocket...

  [Lisa slaps Bob] 

• Robert Macklin : So, what did you do? Dance all night? Watch the dawn coming up over the Seine? End up with onion soup at Les Halles?

  Lisa Macklin : As a matter of fact, that's almost what I did do. Except I didn't watch the dawn and the soup wasn't at Les Halles.

• Robert Macklin : You didn't think I was going to go without you, did you? And leave you to some jerk who thought he'd found himself such a beautiful, sad, sexy widow?

• Robert Macklin : So, what's it going to be? Jail or Rio?

• Robert Macklin : Yeah, I knew you'd be reasonable. That's one thing I love about Italians. They're so reasonable!

• Robert Macklin : Still hating me a bit, honey? Oh, don't let it bother you. All that junk they put out about love is for the birds! Love isn't a pretty little thing like a ribbon in your hair. Love is two people so tied together that even the crack of doom can't part them.

• Robert Macklin : Hey, look, honey. Five miles to midnight!