Diplomatic Courier (1952)

Tyrone Power: Mike Kells

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Quotes 

• Joan Ross : When I started this crazy tour the last thing I was looking for was a man. Why I should pick on you, I don't know. After I know you better I may not like you. But I kept thinking about you and started looking for you. I phoned all over and Tony Bennis from the Paris embassy found out for me that you has come here. Michael, it's was exactly 11:45 a few days ago when you left me. What time is it now? Check both watches.

  Mike Kells : Well, it's exactly 11:37.

  Joan Ross : Do we resume? Heaven bless 11:37. I don't.

  Mike Kells : , I'd like nothing better in the world, but right now I'm sort of... I... I... I'm... tied...

  Joan Ross : All right, I'm gonna lay my cards on the table. Michael, tell me the truth. Are you with someone?

  Mike Kells : [showing a photo of a woman]  No. No, I'm chasing her. My dream girl.

  Joan Ross : Can't be helped. Can't be helped, can it? I apologize to you Michael. I'm truly sorry.

  Mike Kells : No, no, no. I'm only kidding about her. I'm only doing this for an acquaintance of a friend of mine. I promised to look her up and see about her.

  Joan Ross : Do you have to see about her tonight?

  Mike Kells : It doesn't look as though I can tonight.

  Joan Ross : [leaning in]  Darling! Let's explore Triste together!

• Joan Ross : I'm with those people over there. They're much duller than you are. But they got far better manners so I have to lie like the dickens. Especially that one guy! He's the captain. He thinks he is a mate of mine. You know the kind. So I have to be nice to him. Darling, can you wait two minutes?

  Mike Kells : Yup.

  Joan Ross : Well... I hardly can. I'm going to, darling.

  [Joan leans in and passionately kisses Mike. Her cleavage shows] 

  Joan Ross : [scene changes to a waiter looking through some curtains at Joan and Mike. He has an astonished expression, and as he brushes his hair back with his hand his toupee falls back] 

• Mike Kells : [to Janine]  Well, he left in a hurry. It turned out he had an appointment to get killed. That's right, his timing was a little off. You'll be sorry to hear the car got him and not me.

• Mike Kells : [to Janine about Sam's watch]  Where did they get this? Did they take it off Sam's body? Was it part of your pay?

• Mike Kells : [about Joan]  No. If I'm in this, it's my own business. But she's a woman. It's lucky for her she's sore at me. I stood her up last night.

  Col. Mark Cagle : A thing like that just wets her appetite. She'll meet you at one o'clock at the Nationale.

  Mike Kells : Don't you stop at nothing?

  Col. Mark Cagle : She's an American isn't she? Let her do something for her country.

• Mike Kells : [to Janine]  Oh no, no, no! I've been to your apartment. I don't like what happens there. Like getting slugged.

• Sgt. Ernie Guelvada : You're out of your mind going up there! You got a gun?

  Mike Kells : Ya.

  Sgt. Ernie Guelvada : A flashlight?

  Mike Kells : No.

• Mike Kells : [to Joan]  Go home. Take off your spurs and go to bed.

• [after escaping from a train and tumbling down a steep hillside, Mike and Janine come to rest next to each other] 

  Mike Kells : You know something? This is the first time I really looked at you. Really looked at you, just as a girl.

  [last lines] 

  Janine Betki : And so it is.