Never Let Me Go (1953)

Bernard Miles: Joe Brooks

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• Philip Sutherland : You're Joe Brooks, aren't you?

  Joe Brooks : Maybe I am, maybe I ain't.

  Philip Sutherland : The boot up the hill says you know everything there is to know about boats.

  Joe Brooks : That's young Willie. He talks out of his elbow at times. A man's not born yet as knows everything about boats- never will be, neither. Boats isn't like them motor cars they got where you come from, you know, all slicked up and shiny- you press a button and you gets the answer. Oh no, boats is a different story. Boats has got souls.

• Philip Sutherland : [on a boat, looking it over]  What's it like sailing a boat like this alone?

  Joe Brooks : Well, that's all according to whether you knows what you're up to. If you do, you're fine and fair. If you don't, you'll drown.

  Philip Sutherland : Suppose you wanted to sail all the way to the Baltic.

  Joe Brooks : Baltic? Who'd want to sail to the Baltic?

  Philip Sutherland : *I* might.

  Joe Brooks : *You* might?

  Philip Sutherland : 'Course, I know it's a long way to the Baltic, but...

  Joe Brooks : It's a long way to the end of the pier in a rowboat, if you don't know how to row.

  Philip Sutherland : A man could learn, Joe.