Walter Huston credited as playing...
Sam Dodsworth
- [last lines]
- Fran Dodsworth: Are you going back to that washed-out expatriate in Naples?
- Sam Dodsworth: Yes, and when I marry her, I'm going back to doing things.
- Fran Dodsworth: Do you think you'll ever get me out of your blood?
- Sam Dodsworth: Maybe not, but love has got to stop someplace short of suicide.
- [Dodsworth runs to the gangplank and jumps on just as it is lowered away from the ship. The boat whistle sounds]
- Steward: But the gentleman will miss the boat!
- Fran Dodsworth: [shouting above the boat whistle] HE'S GONE ASHORE! HE'S GONE ASHORE!
- Sam Dodsworth: I want to sit under a Linden tree with nothing more important to worry about but the temperature of the beer. If there is anything more important.
- Sam Dodsworth: I've never been across before. I got excited. I took one look at that light and all the things I've ever read about England came to light. The town behind it with those flat-faced brick houses and a cart crawling up a hill between high hedges and Jane Austen and Oliver Twist and Sherlock Holmes. England. Mother England. Home.
- Edith Cortright: I used to be a British subject by marriage. I don't know that one can be a British subject by divorce. I expect I'm just a woman who lives in Italy.
- Sam Dodsworth: Oh, do people live in Italy?
- Edith Cortright: There are countless Italians.
- Sam Dodsworth: Oh, no, no, I mean, people like you.
- Edith Cortright: I live in Italy by the thousands, Mr. Dodsworth.
- Sam Dodsworth: Why?
- Edith Cortright: It's cheap!
- Sam Dodsworth: You want to divorce me then?
- Fran Dodsworth: Why should I want to divorce you? You're my husband.
- Sam Dodsworth: You couldn't very well divorce me if I weren't.
- Sam Dodsworth: We'll have to learn to behave ourselves, when we'll be a couple of old grandparents in December.
- Edith Cortright: Break away from your hotel. Forget about Vienna. Move out here to me.
- Sam Dodsworth: Out to you?
- Edith Cortright: Yes. I can't make you as comfortable as your hotel does. When you want a bath, you'll have to choose between the tin tub and the Mediterranean. But, if you like swimming and fishing and a willing listener...
- Sam Dodsworth: That's very kind of you, Mrs. Cortright, and mighty friendly; but, I don't see how I could?
- Edith Cortright: Why not?
- Sam Dodsworth: What'd your neighbors think?
- Edith Cortright: Being Italians, they think a great deal.
- Sam Dodsworth: Exactly.
- Edith Cortright: Oh! But, that doesn't mean it would have to be so! Or, that I'd have it so even if you wanted it so.
- Fran Dodsworth: Oh, you're hopeless - you haven't the mistiest notion of civilization.
- Sam Dodsworth: Yeah, well maybe I don't think so much of it, though. Maybe clean hospitals, concrete highways, and no soldiers along the Canadian border come near my idea of civilization.
- Sam Dodsworth: I cabled her to come and she doesn't say one word about me going over.
- Matey Pearson: She's thoughtless.
- Sam Dodsworth: No she's not, Matey. She's scared.
- Matey Pearson: Fran's scared? What of?
- Sam Dodsworth: Of growing old.
- Matey Pearson: That's very smart of you, Sam.
- Sam Dodsworth: Setting up that motor's the first real fun I've had since I quit business, and it's got me raring to go all over again for the first time.
- Edith Cortright: To go?
- Sam Dodsworth: You bet!
- Edith Cortright: Away from here?
- Sam Dodsworth: Any place where I can get back in harness. Get in on something new, the way they did with automobiles when they began 30 years ago. Thought I might try my hand at aviation. The idea of a Moscow to Seattle airline kinda' strikes me.
- Edith Cortright: [slightly incredulous] Moscow to Seattle?
- Sam Dodsworth: Yeah, buy in on a transcontinental connection. Then, with these transcontinental flights coming on so well, say, I might be the first man with his first round-the-world system. The Soviet people seem agreeable.
- Fran Dodsworth: They all belong to the smartest crowd in Paris.
- Sam Dodsworth: Fran, do you think the real thing in Paris would hang out with a couple of hicks like us? All right, now, what else are we? I'm just an ordinary American businessman and I married the daughter of a Zenith brewer.
- Sam Dodsworth: Why won't you sit at a cafe with me?
- Fran Dodsworth: Smart people don't.
- Sam Dodsworth: I'm not smart.
- Fran Dodsworth: I am.
- Sam Dodsworth: You ought to be smart enough not to care what people think.
- Arnold Iselin: Let me remind you that Shakespeare's Othello ends badly for the hero.
- Sam Dodsworth: I'm not Othello. This is not the Middle Ages. None of us speak blank verse, not even you.
- Fran Dodsworth: Oh, Sam, I'm just a woolly American like you after all, and if you ever catch me trying to be anything else, will you beat me?
- Sam Dodsworth: Well, will I have to beat you very long at a time?
- Fran Dodsworth: [to Sam, as he's gotten on board the train] Do try not to be too dreadfully lonely, will you?
- Sam Dodsworth: Did I remember to tell you today that I adore you?
- [train departs]
- Fran Dodsworth: Oh, Sammy, darling, I want all the lovely things I have a right to. In Europe, a woman of my age is just getting to the point where men begin to take a serious interest in. I won't be put on the shelf for my daughter when I can still dance longer and better than she can. After all, I've got brains and thank heaven I still got looks. Nobody takes me for over 32, 30 even. Of, Sammy, darling, I'm begging for life. No I'm not, I'm demanding it.
- Sam Dodsworth: I see how you feel. All right, I'll enjoy life now if it kills me and it probably will.