Remember the Night (1939)

Fred MacMurray: John Sargent

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• Lee Leander : Suppose you were starving to death and you didn't have any food and you didn't have any place to get anything. And there were some loaves of bread out in front of a market. Now remember, you're starving to death and the man's back was turned. Would you swipe one?

  John Sargent : If I was starving, you bet I would.

  Lee Leander : That's because you're honest. You see, I'd have a six-course dinner at a fancy restaurant across the street and then say I forgot my purse. Get the difference?

• Lee Leander : I suppose you do this with all the lady prisoners?

  John Sargent : Oh my, yes. My life is just one long round of whoopee.

  Lee Leander : Well, you're in a good spot for it.

  John Sargent : Wonderful! I merely have to raise my finger and my slightest whim is satisfied. Now if you'll...

  Lee Leander : And I suppose if anybody says no, you just put them right back in the cooler.

  John Sargent : That's right. Look when court reconvenes, I'm going to try my best to put you in jail for a good long time. That's my business, but you haven't been convicted yet, so I don't see why you shouldn't enjoy Christmas like the rest of us. That's why I had Mike get you out.

  Lee Leander : And bring me up here!

  John Sargent : I did not ask him to bring you up here!

  Lee Leander : Then why did that gorilla bring me up here?

  John Sargent : Because he's got a mind like a... sewer!

  Lee Leander : Thanks.

• John Sargent : I mean, maybe you were a kleptomaniac.

  Lee Leander : Oh no, no. They tried that though. No. You see, to be a kleptomaniac you can't sell any of the stuff afterwards or you lose your amateur standing.

• John Sargent : You threw a lighted match into the wastebasket?

  Lee Leander : Well I wasn't aiming for the spittoon.

  John Sargent : You know that's called arson?

  Lee Leander : No! I thought that was when you bit somebody!

• John Sargent : What are you doing here?

  Lee Leander : I don't know yet, but I've got a rough idea.

  John Sargent : Well, I'm glad you're out...

  Lee Leander : Now what do I have to do for it?

  John Sargent : Well for one thing, you might say thank you, but if that doesn't fit into your plans let's skip it.

• Mrs. Sargent : Do you remember when you took my egg money I was going to buy a new dress with? And how hard you worked to pay it back when you later understood?

  John Sargent : You made me understand.

  Mrs. Sargent : No, dear. It was love that made you understand.

• Customs Official : And what is your reason for going through Canada?

  John Sargent : I'm a fugitive from justice.

  Lee Leander : You sound like a fugitive from a nut house.

  Customs Official : Go ahead, sir, go ahead.

• Mrs. Sargent : [Thinking that Lee may be a kleptomaniac]  She's probably a hypochondriac.

  John Sargent : She might be at that.

• Lee Leander : You mean you want me to go?

  John Sargent : Yes!

  Lee Leander : Where?

  John Sargent : Where what?

  Lee Leander : Well after all, I was on my way to a nice comfortable jail with three meals a day and turkey for Christmas, and now I'm...

  John Sargent : Don't you live some place?

  Lee Leander : Oh, I had a room in a hotel, but they locked me out.

  John Sargent : Oh. How much do you owe the hotel?

  Lee Leander : A hundred and twenty-six dollars and forty cents.

  John Sargent : Oh, that doesn't solve my problem does it?

• Rufus : She's here.

  John Sargent : Who's here?

  Rufus : I don't know, sir.

  John Sargent : Well then, how do you know she's here?

  Rufus : Well, I seen her come in.

  John Sargent : You saw who come in?

  Rufus : Uh, the lady.

  John Sargent : You mean there's a lady in the apartment?

• John Sargent : [Chiding Lee, quoting an ancient proverb]  A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be.

• Lee Leander : I never loved you.

  John Sargent : [Chiding]  Were you just toying with me?

  Lee Leander : Oh, shut up!