The Cobweb (1955)

Richard Widmark: Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver

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• Karen McIver : What am I supposed to be doing?

  Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : You're not supposed to be showing yourself off to my patients!

  Karen McIver : Give me one ounce of the attention you give them day and night!

  Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : Now, what does that mean?

  Karen McIver : Just what you think it means!

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : Oh, I see. You've been encouraging Dev by weeping on his shoulder.

  Karen McIver : I don't weep.

• Victoria Inch : Do you think we could - get along better together?

  Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : Why, sure, Vicky. My terms are simple: unconditional surrender.

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : What does that mean - that I'm neglecting the kids, too?

  Karen McIver : Yes, the only ones who get anything real from you are those professional children out at the clinic. Yesterday in school, they asked Rosie what she wanted to be when she grew up. Would you like to know what she answered? A patient!

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : You all know what's happened. None of it can be undone. But what we can do is learn from it. Out of our needs and our passions here, we've - we've spun a human cobweb.

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : I hate to break into your little dream, Karen, but you're not exactly a unique event in Dr. Devanal's life. It happens with every woman he meets.

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : Don't ever hang up on me like that again, Vicky. And if you do, I'll pull your dress over your head and beat some manners into you.

  Victoria Inch : You wouldn't dare!

  Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : Dare me.

• Victoria Inch : This house and the ground it stands on is my property. I've asked you to leave and you're trespassing.

  Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : Vicky, stop drooling and sit down. Sit down! And shut up!

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : He can't keep people up all night. He's not Scheherazade.

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : Wonder who put that bat in her belfry?

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : I'd be home more, Karen, if there were more to come home to.

  Karen McIver : What, for instance?

  Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : A real woman.

  Karen McIver : You don't make me feel like a woman. What do you think I've been trying to tell you for months? I am a woman. I want to be one, but I - I have to feel I - I'm desired!

  Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : Everyone thinks you're desirable.

  Karen McIver : Do you? Do you!

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : I think there's a misunderstanding on the subject of these drapes.

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : I don't know where he is. Nobody seems to. Just threw his stink bomb and ran.

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : Hey, that's good! Isn't it?

  Meg Faversen Rinehart : Stevie has a sardonic touch, a sort of jovial Goya.

  Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : Terrific.

  Mrs. Shirley Irwin : I think more like Steinberg.

  Abe Irwin : More like you're all a little drunk.

• Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver : How bad is it, Tim?

  Dr. Tim Carmody : Pretty bad. We have a very disturbed house. There's been a lot of talk all day about those new drapes.