jay@umcp-cs.UUCP (11/21/83)
This is probably one of those you-had-to-be-there type of quotes, but it struck my wife and me as so ludicrous that I thought I'd pass it on. Picture a group of sophisticated 1930's types (specifically, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce and Melvyn Douglas) sitting around spouting pompous platitudes. On one subject they all agree: that knowledge of the truth is always for the best. Nothing bad can come from basking in the true light. Well, as you might imagine, the ensuing events prove that, at least in their cases, the truth can be devastating. Wives and husbands have been unfaithful, murder and theft may have been committed. It is at this latter realization that one of the heroines of this otherwise dead serious film spouts the following: I'm now facing a most urgent problem, the sort of problem that only women have to face. If a man has been dragged back to your house to be told he's a liar, a cad, and a possible thief, oughtn't you to make a few sandwiches for him? Ernst Lubitsch eat your heart out! BTW, the name of the 1934 film is "Dangerous Corner", referring to all those hidden truths best left unrevealed. Unless you habitually stay up 'til 6:00AM, you probably won't meet up with it which may or may not be all for the best. As for myself, I'm an indiscriminately compulsive movie watcher. Oh, yes, the man's response to the above quote: "He'll get no sandwiches from me!" -- Jay Elvove ..!seismo!umcp-cs!jay
notes@ucbcad.UUCP (12/04/83)
#R:umcp-cs:-395500:ucbesvax:6100008:000:530 ucbesvax!turner Nov 26 05:11:00 1983 Re: quotable quote I was watching this TERRIBLE movie called something like "The Day the Market Crashed" (Robert Vaughan + some nonentities), and ran across this line (or rather, it ran across me): A hard-nosed financier who is manipulating the market is having an argument with his semi-alcoholic wife, who is accusing him of having gotten rich off the sufferings of others. At one point, she says, One day, you'll pay for this. To which he replies, flintily: I can afford it. --- Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)