Jewel Robbery (1932)
William Powell: The Robber
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Quotes
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh! I want to play with these the way a child plays with sand. Try them all on. Pour them all over me. Bury myself in them. Oh, they're too heavenly! This necklace, where did you get it?
Robber : At a charity ball.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : What courage!
Robber : No, merely nimble fingers. The lady stood beside me. The Prince of Wales was announced. I could have removed her dress.
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Robber : The last place anybody would think of looking for me is in your bedroom.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, so you expect to stay here until morning?
Robber : I'm forced to. Tomorrow the chase starts all over again. I must have a peaceful night.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : A peaceful night in *my bedroom?*
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Robber : As a matter of fact, I'm opposed to the American school of banditry. I studied in Paris. You have to work harder but you do acquire a certain finesse that is missing from the stick-em-up and shoot-them-down school.
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Robber : [looking vaguely surprised after a gentle slap by Baroness Teri] How intimate.
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : [being seduced by Robber] Show me your jewels.
Robber : Of course.
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : This is awful!
Robber : Why? I'm having a very good time. Won't you sit down?
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : You behave exactly as though you were paying a call!
Robber : I am. After a very brief and informal introduction, I'm now making a formal call.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Through the window...
Robber : But only to preserve your reputation. I came very discreetly by way of a drain pipe.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : That's not legal!
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I'm curious to know how you were led astray.
Robber : Well, I began life as a little boy--
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I'm glad to hear that you kept to the same sex.
Robber : Yes. It's a family tradition.
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Robber : Come with me. I'll drop you somewhere in the suburbs, untouched.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Untouched? In the suburbs? Oh, no! No, that doesn't intrigue me at all!
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Your conscience?
Robber : Beautifully clear.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Your past?
Robber : Fortunate.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Your future?
Robber : It doesn't exist. I live only for the present. And the present - is you.
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Robber : No one knows I'm in the house. Life is before us. And, if you wish, at dawn we shall have a secret behind us.
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Robber : Come with me!
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Where?
Robber : Over the roofs and away!
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I don't dare.
Robber : Romance. Adventure. Gaiety. Excitement. A chance to live!
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Johann Christian Lenz, Nightwatchman : Always be suspicious. Don't be fooled by anybody. Anything strange, if it ain't more than a mouse's whisker -- call the police.
Robber : There's a man for you!
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : I'm hungry
Robber : That's because you were frightened. There's nothing like a little fear to whet one's appetite.
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, no, no, please. Please don't hurt my lips. Everyone says my lips...
Robber : Are heavenly.
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Robber : You're so lovely. It's hard to be brutal with you.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : You do strike a fresh note. Up to now, men have always been brutal because I am lovely.
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : How do you know that?
Robber : I overheard your conversation - in the bedroom.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : While I was undressing?
Robber : You were everything I anticipated.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Cognac?
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Robber : Will you come away with me? I leave Vienna tonight. We fly together.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Flight? Oh, no. Abduction, perhaps.
Robber : Anything you like!
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Where do we go?
Robber : Eternity!
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, that sounds far, I'm afraid.
Robber : Stay close to me and you won't be afraid.
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Robber : Come with me to Nice. We'll be miles from Vienna. The season is on. The casinos are gay! We'll bath ourselves in music. Drown ourselves in champagne. I'll make love to you as I've dreamed of making love.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : That sounds divine. Perhaps there by the sea, away from everything.
Robber : Don't say perhaps. Dance with me in Nice on Thursday.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, wait. I feel now that I don't dare go with you. But, how will I feel tomorrow when I realize that I've let you go. I know how I'll feel. I'll dance with you Thursday!
Robber : The Hotel Negresco.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : For tea!
Robber : Darling.
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Robber : [with a nameless introduction, proposing a toast] Merely man.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Merely woman.
Robber : And to whatever joins them.
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Now, would you be so kind as to introduce me to you?
Robber : Which one of me?
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Robber : [being threatened by Teri's gun] Do you want to make a pool of blood?
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : If you insist.
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : You've given me a very exciting ten minutes. It will make me the center of interest of teas and dinners for weeks to come.
Robber : Think how much more interesting your story would be if I brutally gagged you.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : It's a much better story if I could say that you locked the gentlemen in the safe and dashed out. Well, you don't actually have to dash.
Robber : Then everyone will ask you why you didn't call out. That will make you an accomplice after the fact.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Ooo! That's even more thrilling!
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Well, I'm glad. Yes. I'm very glad that you're here.
Robber : You excite me!
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Do they examine you here in this room?
Robber : Examine and cross-examine. You get to like it after awhile.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Like it?
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : You're not drinking?
Robber : You are my wine tonight.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh, now, please. Can't you do better than that?
Robber : That was a bit shopworn. I confess.
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Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : You can't invite me to do anything. Whatever you do must be done by force.
Robber : Well, then.
[he picks her up and throws her on the bed]
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels : Oh! What are you doing?
Robber : Using force.