The Old Dark House (1932)
Melvyn Douglas: Penderel
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Quotes
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[Morgan slowly opens the door, groaning and muttering]
Penderel : Even Welsh ought not to sound like that!
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Rebecca Femm : What is it? What do they want?
Horace Femm : Allow me to introduce my sister, Miss Rebecca Femm.
Penderel , Philip Waverton , Margaret Waverton : How do you do?
Rebecca Femm : What are they doing here? What do they want?
Penderel , Philip Waverton , Margaret Waverton : How do you do?
Rebecca Femm : What did they say? What do they want? What are they doing here? What's all the fuss about? What?
Horace Femm : You must excuse my sister, she's a little deaf. In fact sometimes quite deaf.
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Penderel : There's someone outside.
Rebecca Femm : They can't come in!
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[the Wavertons and Penderel are completely lost on a dark and stormy night]
Margaret Waverton : Well now for heaven's sake stop. Let's look at a map or something.
Penderel : My view is, we're not on a map.
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[the road the Waverton's are on has been flooded]
Margaret Waverton : Don't stop!
Philip Waverton : How can I help stopping? Do you think we're in a motorboat?
Penderel : [singing] Stuck for the night/stuck for the night... .
Margaret Waverton : Mr. Pendelel, please!
Philip Waverton : Sorry.
[Waverton tries to drive their car across the flooded road]
Margaret Waverton : Do you think we'll do it?
Philip Waverton : I really don't know.
Penderel : [waving his glove derisively] Bon voyage!
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[last lines]
Penderel : [regaining consciousness] So, I'm really dead and gone to heaven?
Gladys : No, it's morning and we've only just their tail behind.
Penderel : Morning?
Gladys : Yes, the cold light of day. Wasn't there something you were going to tell me in the cold light of day?
Penderel : Come to think of it, there was. Perkins, will you marry me?
[they embrace and kiss]
