The Letter (1929)

Reginald Owen: Robert Crosbie

Quotes 

• Robert Crosbie : Leslie, dear, I think I'll go into Singapore tonight. Exchange this rifle. It's not heavy enough for tigers.

  Leslie Crosbie : Well, don't be long... I'm afraid I'm as nervous as the natives

• Robert Crosbie : You know, Leslie, it makes me feel awkward and stupid to say some things. I'm not the least clever. But, because I don't say much, don't think I don't appreciate your being out here with me. Only wives like you could make these god-forsaken places bearable, Leslie. Seven years on a rubber plantation - with no company but natives and a lot of dowdy planters wives.

  Leslie Crosbie : Yes, Robert, that ought to be a test for a good wife.

• Robert Crosbie : Well, I'll be going now. Hang it all, I was forgetting the gun.

• Robert Crosbie : Rubber - that was my business! Working to make money - to give you - the things you wanted!

  Leslie Crosbie : What I want. What I wanted. I'm flesh and blood. What I wanted was love, affection, happiness. But, you took everything for granted. Once you got me out here to this god-forsaken place, all you thought about was rubber. All that was on your mind was Rubber! All day long I was alone. All night, I had to listen to you talk of rubber. Rubber! Rubber! Rubber! Was it any wonder when a man came along and talked to me of love and romance and music, that I fell into his arms? Well, I did.