Robert Ellenstein
(as Licht)
Roger Thornhill:
Who are you?
Valerian: Mere errand boys carrying concealed weapons. His his pointed at your heart, so, please, no errors of judgment, I beg of you.
Roger Thornhill: What is this? A joke or something?
Licht: Yes, a joke. We'll laugh in the car.
Valerian: Mere errand boys carrying concealed weapons. His his pointed at your heart, so, please, no errors of judgment, I beg of you.
Roger Thornhill: What is this? A joke or something?
Licht: Yes, a joke. We'll laugh in the car.
From North by Northwest
Cary Grant
(as Roger O. Thornhill)
James Mason
(as Phillip Vandamm)
Cary Grant
(as Roger O. Thornhill)
Phillip Vandamm:
What possessed you to come blundering in here like this? Could it be an overpowering interest in art?
Roger Thornhill: Yes, the art of survival.
Roger Thornhill: Yes, the art of survival.
From North by Northwest
Malcolm Atterbury
(as Man at Prairie Crossing)
Man at Prairie Crossing:
That's funny, that plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops.
From North by Northwest
Jessie Royce Landis
(as Clara Thornhill)
Clara Thornhill:
You gentlemen aren't REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?
From North by Northwest
Cary Grant
(as Roger O. Thornhill)
Roger Thornhill:
Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed.
From North by Northwest
James Mason
(as Phillip Vandamm)
Roger Thornhill:
And what the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here?
Phillip Vandamm: Games? Must we?
Roger Thornhill: Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets for the theater this evening, to a show I was looking forward to and I get, well, kind of *unreasonable* about things like that.
Phillip Vandamm: With such expert playacting, you make this very room a theater.
Phillip Vandamm: Games? Must we?
Roger Thornhill: Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I have tickets for the theater this evening, to a show I was looking forward to and I get, well, kind of *unreasonable* about things like that.
Phillip Vandamm: With such expert playacting, you make this very room a theater.
From North by Northwest
Howland Chamberlain
(as Hotel Clerk)
Hotel Clerk:
You're Mrs. Kane, ain't you?
Amy: Yes.
Hotel Clerk: You're leaving on the noon train?
Amy: Yes.
Hotel Clerk: But your husband ain't?
Amy: No, why?
Hotel Clerk: No reason, but it's mighty interesting. Now, me, I wouldn't leave this town at noon for all the tea in China. No, sir, it's going to be quite a sight to see!
Amy: Yes.
Hotel Clerk: You're leaving on the noon train?
Amy: Yes.
Hotel Clerk: But your husband ain't?
Amy: No, why?
Hotel Clerk: No reason, but it's mighty interesting. Now, me, I wouldn't leave this town at noon for all the tea in China. No, sir, it's going to be quite a sight to see!
From High Noon

