Behind That Curtain (1929)

Warner Baxter: Colonel John Beetham

Quotes 

• Col. John Beetham : I have no heart for this lecture tonight. The desert is too full of memories.

  Beetham's Manservant : The desert gives, and the desert takes away.

• Col. John Beetham : You see, we explorers are always searching, reaching out into the darkness for something that is just beyond our reach.

  Eve Mannering Durand : Maybe, John, what we both want is just beyond our reach.

• Sir Frederick Bruce : I need not say that I rely upon your honor, Colonel.

  Col. John Beetham : You shall have no reason... to doubt it.