The Mercy (2018)

Colin Firth: Donald Crowhurst

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• Donald Crowhurst : [quoting Robert Scott]  "Dreams are the seeds of action." We'd all do well to remember that.

• Donald Crowhurst : [voice over]  During his lifetime each man plays cosmic chess with the devil. It's difficult to know who's winning, because God plays with one set of rules, the devil plays with the other exactly opposite set of rules. But one thing is clear. The only real sin is the sin of concealment.

• Donald Crowhurst : I'm out here alone!

• [First lines] 

  Rachel Crowhurst : Are there horses in the Horse Latitudes?

  Donald Crowhurst : No, sweetheart. Story has it that many years ago when the Spanish sailed to the West Indies they brought their horses with them, and sometimes they ran out of wind and then they ran out of fresh water as well.

• Mr. Best : How far are you going today?

  Donald Crowhurst : Oh, just staying locally. Practising for a longer haul, though.

  Mr. Best : Really? Any place in particular?

  Donald Crowhurst : Round the world.

• Ian : Alone on a boat for nine months? You're either drunk or mad.

  Donald Crowhurst : Well, then we should have another drink immediately, so that we can rule out madness. As Chichester said, "any fool can circumnavigate the world sober, it takes a really good sailor to do it drunk." Same again?