Cluny Brown (1946)

Michael Dyne: John Frewen

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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.

• John Frewen : Well, I've made up my mind. I shall ask her once or twice more. Then I shall wash my hands of her.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Andrew Carmel : A great man!

  John Frewen : Really a great man!