Back Street (1932)

John Boles: Walter D. Saxel

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• Walter D. Saxel : What's your name?

  Ray Schmidt : Ray.

  Walter D. Saxel : Gee, I'm glad.

  Ray Schmidt : You're glad? Why?

  Walter D. Saxel : Because I think a name should always suit a person and your's is perfect. Ray: ray of sunshine, ray of delight, ray of my heart.

• Walter D. Saxel : This is the most perfect day I've ever known.

  Ray Schmidt : Why, you're crazy. It's hot and sultry and its been threatening rain all day.

  Walter D. Saxel : You're crazy yourself. The sky is clear as crystal, the air is like wine, God's in his heaven, and you're on earth.

  Ray Schmidt : Say, you'll have me blushing in a minute.

  Walter D. Saxel : You're blushing now. It's most becoming.

• Walter D. Saxel : My theory is if you want to think badly enough, it's bound to come true.

• Walter D. Saxel : I don't think I caught your name.

  Ray Schmidt : Does it matter?

  Walter D. Saxel : Not a darn bit.

• Ray Schmidt : What have you been doing with yourself, Walter?

  Walter D. Saxel : Oh, lots of things. I'm in line for junior partnership at Friedlander Kunz Bankers.

  Ray Schmidt : Oh, tremendous.

  Walter D. Saxel : And I've given birth to two children.

  Ray Schmidt : Well, aren't you clever.

  Walter D. Saxel : And you, what have you been doing?

  Ray Schmidt : Well, I'm not exactly in line for junior partnership; but, I am about the highest paid woman in my firm.

  Walter D. Saxel : Swell!

• Walter D. Saxel : Your memory has followed me day and night like a shadow. I finally tore you out of my mind - and now you've come back to torture me.

  Ray Schmidt : Oh, Walter, darling. What can I say? What can I do?

• Ray Schmidt : Walter, I'm awfully sorry I can't ask you up. But, "gentlemen and dogs" are not allowed.

  Walter D. Saxel : I see.

  Ray Schmidt : I have a landlady with all the instincts of a bloodhound.

• Walter D. Saxel : You're adorable, Ray. When I hold you in my arms like this, nothing ever seems to matter. You're like a drug to me.

• Ray Schmidt : There's something we've got to have out with each other. It's been fiendish at times, Walter. I gave up my job so I could be free when you were here. Well, that was all right. But, what have I got? Solitaire. Waiting for the telephone to ring. Waiting for you to - come. Dying when you don't. I can't meet your friends. I can't make any of my own. You don't know how empty my life is.

  Walter D. Saxel : Ray, darling, empty? When you have me?

  Ray Schmidt : That's just the point, darling. I don't always have you. I didn't have you this summer. You're going to be a busier man as the days go by. And there'll be other trips where Ray can't go along. I can't go on, Walter, waiting, hoping, empty handed. Walter, give me a child.

• Walter D. Saxel : If you wanted to make me suffer, you've succeeded. It's been terrible. I never knew I could need any human being as I've needed you. I've no right to ask anything of you over me. I'm a cad, if you like. I can't offer you any of the things you are about to enjoy: home, respectability, children. I only know one thing, I need you. I love you. Come back to me, Ray.

• Walter D. Saxel : Don't you start an argument either. I'm in no mood to be trifled with.

  Ray Schmidt : [giggles]  You wouldn't strike a lady, would you, Mr. Saxel?

  Walter D. Saxel : Wouldn't I though.

  [long kiss] 

  Ray Schmidt : Paris always brings out the beast in you.

• Walter D. Saxel : I suppose, Dick, you're still too young to know just how long that is.

• Walter D. Saxel : I adore this place. It's only a hotel suite, but, you do something to it.

  Ray Schmidt : The magical touch of a woman's hands, makes even the darkest corner seem grand.

• Walter D. Saxel : I'd gladly give up all I have, life itself, for that little pink nose of yours.