Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Laurence Olivier: Superintendent Newhouse

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Quotes 

• Newhouse : Bus conductors are rarely observant. They tend to be dreamers, philosophers, that sort of thing. Self protection I suppose.

• Newhouse : Ever heard him read poetry? It's like a Welsh parson gargling with molasses.

• Andrews : I didn't actually see anything in his flat, sir, but he could have gone in and taken the little girl's things any time this morning.

  Newhouse : Why should he, I wonder.

  Andrews : Bloody pervert, if you want my opinion, sir. Kept on asking Rogers to strike him.

  Newhouse : Please, Andrews, he works for the BBC.

• Ada Ford : I never lie, Superintendent.

  Newhouse : And that makes you a most unusual woman, Ms. Ford.

• [last lines] 

  Newhouse : Sleep well. Both of you. Now that you exist.

• Newhouse : I must now, I suppose, enter the personality of a 4-year old female child possessed of a strong conviction that all forbidden doors are to be opened.

• Newhouse : My father was a policeman. Managed to get me into a university. I think he rather wanted me to be a poet. When I told him I wanted to be a policeman like him, he was horrified. You'll have no friends, he said. No single decent human being will want to speak to you from now on. I must say he was perfectly right.

• Newhouse : Who are you?

  Wilson : No autographs, but you may touch my garment.

• Newhouse : Somewhere a hymn of nauseating banality is being sung by the punctual children.

• Ann Lake : What about me?

  Newhouse : You can come to the station with me. That's where we keep all the red tape.

• Ann Lake : Mr. Newhouse, what are we doing here? What are we doing about Bunny?

  Newhouse : We're waiting for something to happen.

• Steven : Are you calling me a liar?

  Newhouse : I'm not calling anybody anything, Mr. Lake. Not yet.

• Newhouse : Ever been in a pub before?

  Ann Lake : No.

  Newhouse : Here it is, the heart of merry old England. Complete with dirty glasses, watery beer, drafts under the doors, and a 23-inch television.

• Newhouse : We're not supposed to hit you, Mr. Lake. In return, I must ask you not to hit me. It doesn't prove anything.