Escape (1940)

Alla Nazimova: Emmy Ritter

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Quotes 

• Dr. Ditten : When I was a boy, I lived in the country. I never saw a theater or went anywhere. And one day, my father went to the city and brought back a theater program with your photograph on it. I stole it. I kept it hidden in a bureau drawer.

  Emmy Ritter : Many young boys feel in love with me. Oh, many old ones too.

  Dr. Ditten : In the photograph you were dressed as St. Elizabeth, carrying a basket with loaves of bread and in your arms - roses.

  Emmy Ritter : I remember.

  Dr. Ditten : That's why you were important to me. In my hungry, empty world, you promised so much.

  Emmy Ritter : Bread for the hunger and roses for the emptiness. But, now I suppose you have a new picture in your bureau drawer. A new savior of your world. But his arms are full of guns.

  Dr. Ditten : Why not? Power is the only answer!

• Dr. Ditten : Our children will thank us for the world we are making for them!

  Emmy Ritter : Thank you? Thank you for what? For a world filled with a seed of new hates? For a world in ruins? If that's what your new savior can bring, no thank you. I don't want it for myself - or my children! My children...