The Sisters (1938)

Errol Flynn: Frank Medlin

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• Frank Medlin : [He's just arrived home drunk]  You know what happened to me today? A very funny thing. I was asleep in a nice, comfortable gutter. I mean, there were no rents to pay, no novels to write, no nothing... But all of a sudden I remembered that I was a man of responsibilities. Ha ha! A man of responsibilities - that's me!

• Frank Medlin : You know, sometimes a man goes from wanting too much, to wanting nothing. He ought to do it gradually, or he gets all mixed up.

• Frank Medlin : [In his goodbye note]  Dear Louise - Our love is dying a tawdry death - my fault - so at midnight I ship out for a new horizon. Good-bye. - Frank

• Louise Elliott Medlin : Frank, I can't have you running off like this.

  Frank Medlin : If you really love me, come with me to San Francisco tonight. Will you?

  Louise Elliott Medlin : Yes.

• Frank Medlin : [Asking the City Editor for a raise]  I'm a married man with responsibilities, and all I'm asking you for is enough money to live like a human being.

  City Editor : You can't come around here complaining about "hard times" when you smell like a saloon most of the time!

  Frank Medlin : Ha! You're a fine one to preach! Why, you've had your nose in a whiskey bottle so long it looks like an old cork!

  City Editor : I've had enough out of you, Medlin. You're fired!

  Frank Medlin : [Slightly taken aback]  Fired?... That's fine. I'll go get myself a decent job, now. Merry Christmas!

• Tim Hazelton : [He's just returned to San Francisco after a long time away at sea]  You look like someone they forgot to bury.

  Frank Medlin : They didn't forget - I just wasn't there when they came around.

• Frank Medlin : Oh, please, I'm quite harmless really.

  Louise Elliott Medlin : I think you are.

• Frank Medlin : [Anxious to know Tim's opinion of his novel in progress]  Well, are you through?

  Tim Hazelton : Yes.

  Frank Medlin : Pretty bad, ay?

  Tim Hazelton : Well, I'm no literary critic.

  Frank Medlin : [laughs derisively]  You don't have to be. All you've got to be is be able to smell.

• Frank Medlin : [to Louise]  You have a very exciting serenity