Secret Beyond the Door... (1947)

Michael Redgrave: Mark Lamphere

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Quotes 

• Mark Lamphere : You were living that fight. You soaked it all in - love, hate, the passion. You've been starved for feelings - any real feelings. I thought: 20th Century Sleeping Beauty. Wealthy American girl who has lived her life wrapped in cotton wool but she wants to wake up. Maybe she can.

  Celia Barrett : Is it as hard as all that?

  Mark Lamphere : Most people are asleep.

• Mark Lamphere : There's something in your face that I saw once before in South Dakota. Wheat country. Cyclone weather. Just before the cyclone, the air has a stillness. A flat, gold, shimmering stillness. You have it in your face - the same hush before the storm and when you smile it's like the first breath of wind bending down the wheat. I know that behind that smile is a turbulence that...

  Celia Barrett : I heard his voice and then I didn't hear it any more, because the beating of my blood was louder. This was what I'd hunted those foolish years in New York. I knew before I knew his name or touched his hand and for an endless moment I seemed to float like a feather blown to a place where time had stopped.

• [last lines] 

  Mark Lamphere : That night, you killed the root of the evil in me, but I still have a long way to go.

  Celia Lamphere : *We* have a long way to go.

• Mark Lamphere : Oh, by the way, I don't think that R.D. Will like that wallet if he's anything like me.

  Celia Barrett : He's not a bit like you.

  Mark Lamphere : And you're not a bit like you. I mean you aren't what you seem to be.

• Mark Lamphere : Are you deaf? Well, answer me! I won't put up with your snooping any longer. What did you think you would find in my room? Stop reading when I'm talking to you! What did you think you would find? Take that smirk off your face and answer me!

  David Lamphere : What are you afraid I *could* find?