Uncertain Glory (1944)

Errol Flynn: Jean Picard

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• Jean Picard : [indignantly to the barber just before he is to be sent to face the guillotine]  My head comes off as it is!

• Train Conductor : [noticing that Bonet and Picard are handcuffed]  Oh! Oh, which one of you gentlemen is the prisoner?

  [Bonet nods toward Picard] 

  Train Conductor : Ah, of course! A bad type! What did he do?

  Jean Picard : I killed a conductor for asking too many questions.

• Jean Picard : [to Bonet]  I suppose there's a time when any man, even a man like me, can find something... something bigger than himself for which he is willing to die without question, almost... almost happily.

• Jean Picard : [sitting outside a church with Bonet urging him to go inside]  Look, Bonet, inside that church is a nice simple village priest. What confessions is he used to? Petty stuff. Swearing, drinking, beating your wife - things like that. Why, if he heard my list he'd faint. For me, it'd take at least a bishop.

• Father La Borde : My son, are you prepared?

  Jean Picard : [defiantly]  Save that for someone else!

• Marianne : What are you thinking about, Jean?

  Jean Picard : I was looking at the little pulse in this throat. I was watching it tick away like a rare and delicate clock and I was suddenly imagining racing like mad, breathlessly

• Inspector Marcel Bonet : We want a new name... one they cannot check against your army record, that is the first thing they will do.

  Jean Picard : The army... wait a minute. There was another thief in my regiment called Jean DuPont. We looked enough alike to be brothers... except he was a little stupid.

  Inspector Marcel Bonet : Well, that would not kill the resemblance.

  [Jean gives him a look] 

  Inspector Marcel Bonet : What happened to him?

  Jean Picard : I don't know, he came from a place called, ahh... Martinique. I think he went back there.

  Inspector Marcel Bonet : Say... it will take the Gestapo till the end of the war to find him. Yes, that's perfect.

  Jean Picard : It's not perfect. I remember his middle name too... Emile.

  Inspector Marcel Bonet : Why, what's wrong with that?

  Jean Picard : What's wrong with Emile? Can you see that on a tombstone? Sounds like a hairdresser.

• Jean Picard : [after Bonet has been coughing]  You're sick, all right. Wouldn't it be terrible if you passed out on me... where would I send the body?

  Inspector Marcel Bonet : Ehh, go to the devil.

  Jean Picard : Ahh, if I did you'd probably follow me there, from force of habit.

  Inspector Marcel Bonet : Well, I'll see you to his door, right enough.