Stranded (1935)

Kay Francis: Lynn Palmer

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• [last lines] 

  Mack Hale : ...There's no reason why you should forgive what I've said and done, but I want you - on any terms you say.

  Lynn Palmer : Aw, darling don't. Don't be humble; you'll break my heart if you're ever humble. Never lose your arrogance - that's the you I love.

  [they kiss; fade out] 

• Lynn Palmer : You know what you are? You're a man with his shirt off!

• John Wesley : So, you don't think much of social workers?

  Mack Hale : Too much sweetness and light gets on my nerves. There are only 2 kinds of men: workers, and no-workers. You people are off on the wrong foot, sticking your nose into other people's business. My guys *have* to mind their own business, or pretty soon they haven't got a business.

  John Wesley : But don't you see that all the beautiful things built of stone, and steel, and wood are for the use of humanity?

  Mack Hale : Don't you go sticking beauty and art and humanity into my work. It's a sweaty, dirty job of rigging steel, boring holes and driving rivets. It'll stand against a 90-mile gale and all the strain she'll pack.

  Lynn Palmer : Remember this, Mack: after you've finished this job and gone, there's only one thing that'll keep that pile of steel and rock alive.

  Mack Hale : What's that?

  Lynn Palmer : The people who use it.

• Mack Hale : Lynn, I deserved anything that might've happened tonight. And it was you - - you, and the people who had been helped who came through for me. I told you once you were wasting your time. But tonight, you cracked my heart and my eyes wide open.

  Lynn Palmer : We're practically in the same business, Mack. You build with steel, and I try to build with people.

  Mack Hale : I understand. I know what you mean now.