Adventure Girl (1934)

Joan Lowell: Joan Lowell

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• Joan Lowell : There's a lot of work on a boat. And if a Captain's a Skipper like Pop, he doesn't ease up on you because you're a girl.

• Joan Lowell : Finding a port in a wind and tide swept ocean is man's work. But, a girl can do it - if she's a sailor.

• Joan Lowell : Those clouds I could see through the hatchway looked like man-size trouble, to be exact, a Caribbean hurricane. The worst storm the Atlantic knows. The "Black Hawk" was new to us and all ships being ladies and temperamental, we didn't know how she'd behave. So, I put on the oilskins and started up on deck.

• Joan Lowell : The boon, swinging, struck Bill, knocked him unconscious and overboard. I couldn't see an ex-United States Marine pass on like that, not while a girl could swim. There was nothing for it, but I go after him. So, I went.

• Joan Lowell : We started out in the other life boat. We had our eye on a big Spanish ship that looked well over a 100 years old. Its hard on any woman to sit on one spot for a 100 years - especially if she's used to traveling. I felt kinda sorry for that proud old ship that had dropped her last anchor.

• Joan Lowell : My sailors were no gentlemen, making fun of a lady, that way. I suppose a lady is no lady either when she goes to sea.

• Joan Lowell : Maya said this city was sacred to her ancestors. That white men had gone there before, desecrated it and died.

• Joan Lowell : Then, Manola spoke. He begged the Princess not to trust us. We were white. We were evil. We meant no good.

• Joan Lowell : I was an American girl and having come this far I intended to go on.

• Joan Lowell : The Princess was uneasy. She felt there was something wrong about this whole business.

• Joan Lowell : I was startled when I saw Maya. I had lied to her. I desecrated the god of her ancestors. I didn't want to fight with her. I knew I was wrong. That's why I ran.

• [last lines] 

  Joan Lowell : What real sailor girl cares about green emeralds when she could be sailing on the green seas?