Strange Bedfellows (1965)

Gig Young: Richard Bramwell

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• Richard Bramwell : Well you know the mentality of that Board, they're hooked on the idea of corporate image; solid American gentry, family respectability. For their top executives there are not Ten Commandments, only one: thou shalt be married - happily and respectably married...

  Carter Harrison : ...Whether you like it or not

  Richard Bramwell : That's right!

  Carter Harrison : Well I've done just fine, these past seven years, happily and respectably, separated. And I've loved every minute of it

  Richard Bramwell : Yeah, well, that's all gonna change. From now on you're going to have a new look. No more gay married bachelor, you've got to be Carter Harrison, family man

  Carter Harrison : You are out of your skull!

  Richard Bramwell : Carter, when that Board meets in Boston, you can be Yankee Doodle riding to town on a solid gold pony... income in six figures, a private plane, your own yacht, a house in Palm Beach - it's yours. All you need to do is show up in Boston, the week after next with one reasonably respectable wife

  Carter Harrison : Forget it!

• Richard Bramwell : What did you, uh, go around marrying gorgeous fruitcakes for in the first place?

  Carter Harrison : I don't know. It was a cold night. She had an electric blanket.

• Carter Harrison : You don't know what kind of a nut I was married to.

  Richard Bramwell : No, no, I don't. What kind of a nut was she?

  Carter Harrison : She was a half Italian fruitcake, that's what she was.

  Richard Bramwell : Oh, that doesn't sound too bad. What was the other half?

  Carter Harrison : Gorgeous.

• Richard Bramwell : Look, if you wanna commit suicide, use my razor. It's electric, but you can hang yourself on the cord.

• Richard Bramwell : You know, for a fellow who's only going to, uh, discuss his divorce with a half-Italian fruitcake in over-tight blue jeans, you're looking and smelling awfully pretty.

• Richard Bramwell : [Impersonating a U.S. Embassy security officer, brings Carter some protective gear for the dangerous mission he's going on]  Oh, and uh, finally, your uh, your uh, LRP

  [He hands Carter a large pill] 

  Carter Harrison : What?

  Richard Bramwell : A Last Resort Pill.

  Carter Harrison : Last Resort Pill?

  Richard Bramwell : Yes - they're marvelous. Absolutely reliable. Quicker than cyanide and only a teensy bit more painful.

  Carter Harrison : Do I take it with water?

  Richard Bramwell : Oh, no. Never take the water out there - deadly, deadly.

• Richard Bramwell : Boy, you really did marry a nut.

  Carter Harrison : A nut? I married a whole plantation.

• Carter Harrison : She'd never leave with me - not with the Lady Godiva thing. She'd suspect something immediately. And that's precisely what that bearded vulture's waiting for.

  Richard Bramwell : She wears a beard?

  Carter Harrison : No, she doesn't wear a beard. I have other enemies in this thing.

• Julius L. Stevens : It's not his father, you idiot. It's hers.

  Richard Bramwell : I know, but they were very close.

• Julius L. Stevens : [They see Toni in her flesh suit and long blond wig posing as Lady Godiva, and Carter pulling her off her horse]  What in the world is she doing here? I thought her father was dying.

  Richard Bramwell : She goes berserk with sorrow.

• Julius L. Stevens : Did she say poison darts?

  Richard Bramwell : An explorer, J.L. One of those crazy Italians. Climb anything.

• Richard Bramwell : [Impersonating a U.S. embassy security officer]  Oh, uh, and uh, speaking of shots. You'll receive your inoculations en route - malaria, diphtheria, blackwater fever, leprosy and plague.

• Richard Bramwell : Are you sure it's me you want?

  Harry Jones : [Posing as a British Intelligence agent]  Then I'm not here at all. So, we should level, right?