David Niven
(as Peter Carter)
Conductor 71:
You are determined to get me into this... salade.
Peter: And what about the salad you got me into?
Peter: And what about the salad you got me into?
Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
Doctor Frank Reeves:
[talking to Peter] I've got bad news for you.
June: Then why the grin?
Doctor Frank Reeves: You're going with me.
June: Where to?
Doctor Frank Reeves: [talking to both June and Peter] To my house, for two reasons, first I want to meet this chap next time he drops in and second I like a nice girl around the house and she only come to see me to borrow a book, and she's a slow reader
June: Then why the grin?
Doctor Frank Reeves: You're going with me.
June: Where to?
Doctor Frank Reeves: [talking to both June and Peter] To my house, for two reasons, first I want to meet this chap next time he drops in and second I like a nice girl around the house and she only come to see me to borrow a book, and she's a slow reader
Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
Doctor Frank Reeves:
A weak mind isn't strong enough to hurt itself. Stupidity has saved many a man from going mad.
Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
Doctor Frank Reeves:
Ah, there's June. She walks in beauty, like the night... Only she's cycling and it's daytime.
Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
Doctor Frank Reeves:
Milord, I submit that this court is concerned with the life and death of Peter Carter and not with past history or present plumbing.
Raymond Massey
(as Abraham Farlan)
Doctor Frank Reeves:
Sir, may I bring you up to date? We are living in the 20th century, not in the 18th.
Abraham Farlan: May I bring you up to date, sir? We are not alive at all.
Abraham Farlan: May I bring you up to date, sir? We are not alive at all.
Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
Doctor Frank Reeves:
Tell me, do you believe in the survival of human personality after death?
Peter: I thought you said you read my verses.
[to June]
Doctor Frank Reeves: Do you?
June: I don't know, er, I'd never thought about it, do you?
Doctor Frank Reeves: I don't know, I've thought about it too much.
Peter: I thought you said you read my verses.
[to June]
Doctor Frank Reeves: Do you?
June: I don't know, er, I'd never thought about it, do you?
Doctor Frank Reeves: I don't know, I've thought about it too much.
Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
David Niven
(as Peter Carter)
June:
[opening words, before faces shown on screen] Request your position. Come in, Lancaster. Come in, Lancaster.
Peter: Position - nil, repeat nil. Age - 27, 27, did you get that? Very important. Education - interrupted, violently interrupted. Religion - Church of England. Politics - Conservative by nature, Labour by experience. What's your name?
Peter: Position - nil, repeat nil. Age - 27, 27, did you get that? Very important. Education - interrupted, violently interrupted. Religion - Church of England. Politics - Conservative by nature, Labour by experience. What's your name?
