Strange Interlude (1932)
Ralph Morgan: Charlie Marsden
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Quotes
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Nina Leeds : [Inner thoughts] You do love me, Ned.
Dr. Ned Darrell : [Inner thoughts] I don't love you.
Charlie Marsden : [Inner thoughts] Darrell and Nina. There's something unnatural here. Love and hate and lust! Where's Sam? Why isn't he here? I hate Nina! I must punish her!
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Charlie Marsden : [Inner thoughts] Nina, here in my arms. How often I've dreamed of this. Dreams. That's the trouble. I'm only a dreamer. How she'd laugh if she could read my thoughts.
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Nina Leeds : Yes. It's all settled. You know, I feel so curiously calm. So at peace. You've done this Charlie. Without punishing me at all. You haven't punished me, you know. I don't feel as if you punished me hardly at all.
Charlie Marsden : [Inner thoughts] This is all my desire. I am this kind of lover. This is my love. My little girl, not woman.
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Charlie Marsden : You're the only genuinely modest person I know, Sam.
Sam Evans : Who me? I'm the boob of the family. Except when it comes to business. I'll make the money, alright.
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Sam Evans : How 'bout the old scout?
Charlie Marsden : Oh, he seemed fine, fellow. Yes, yes, he said he was having a gay time. When I saw him he was with a startling looking female. I gather he was quite involved.
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Dr. Ned Darrell : Hello, Marsden.
Charlie Marsden : When did you get back from Europe?
Dr. Ned Darrell : This morning, on the Olympic.
[Inner thoughts]
Dr. Ned Darrell : Look out for this fellow. Always had it in for me. He's like a woman, smells out love.
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Charlie Marsden : Here, Madeline. Here is a rose for you. Here, your love. We who have died, salute you.
Madeline : [Inner thoughts] Queer creature. Something uncanny. Oh, what nonsense. Why, it's only poor old Charlie.
[Spoken]
Madeline : Thank you, Uncle Charlie.
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Charlie Marsden : [With irony] It's a wise father who knows his own son, you know.
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Charlie Marsden : This pleasant old town, doting. What memories it brings back.
[Inner thoughts]
Charlie Marsden : Queer things, thoughts, our true selves. Spoken words are just a mask to disguise them.
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Dr. Ned Darrell : [Inner thoughts] How much need I tell him? I can't tell him the raw truth about her. I have to tone it down.
[Spoken]
Dr. Ned Darrell : Nina has been giving away more and more to a morbid longing for - martyrdom.
Charlie Marsden : May I ask in what specific actions of hers this theory of yours is based?
Dr. Ned Darrell : On her evident craving to make an exhibition of necking, spooning, in general, with any patient in the institution who got a case on her.
[Inner thoughts]
Dr. Ned Darrell : Spooning - probably a mild word, but, strong enough for this ladylike soul.
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Charlie Marsden : You know what I'm inclined to suspect, Doctor? That you may be in love with Nina yourself.
Dr. Ned Darrell : [Inner thoughts] Oh, really, I wonder if I am? Forget it! No woman's going to tangle up my career!
[Spoken]
Dr. Ned Darrell : No. In my mind she always belongs to Gordon. And I couldn't share a woman. Even with a ghost.
Charlie Marsden : I can quite appreciate your feeling about Gordon. I wouldn't care to share with a ghost-lover myself. That species of dead is so invulnerably alive - even a Doctor couldn't kill one, eh?
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Nina Leeds : Oh, Charlie. If you only knew how I'd want to run home to you - confess everything.
Charlie Marsden : Confess what, Nina?
Nina Leeds : I've been bad, Charlie. Wicked. I need to be punished and you're the only one left to punish me.