Across the Pacific (1942)

Sydney Greenstreet: Dr. H.F.G. Lorenz

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• Alberta Marlow : We were discussing Philippine economics when we were so rudely interrupted.

  Dr. Lorenz : My own field! Miss Marlowe was kind enough to listen to me.

  Rick Leland : They're going to be free in 1946, aren't they?

  Dr. Lorenz : They are - provided America doesn't insist on fighting a war with Japan. It's my opinion, however, that that contingency is going to keep the Philippines from ever being free.

  Alberta Marlow : Won't Japan gobble them up?

  Rick Leland : No offense, but Japan or Canada or anybody else can have the Philippines, as far as I'm concerned. It's hot in Manila.

  Dr. Lorenz : Might be even hotter before long.

  Alberta Marlow : Hot enough to go around in shorts?

  Rick Leland : Ah, there's a Canadian for you! Let 'em take their clothes off, and they're happy.

• Dr. Lorenz : Where will you stay in Panama, Mr. Leland?

  Rick Leland : The Pan American. It's very quite and respectable.

  Joe Totsuiko : That ain't for me.

  Rick Leland : Where are you going beautiful?

  Alberta Marlow : I'll have to find some place where they have the bath at the end of the hall and a 40 cents lunch.

  Rick Leland : I know the guy who owns the Pan American. He'll give you a rate.

• Dr. Lorenz : One night, you told me about your troubles in the Army. I'd like to hear more about that.

  Rick Leland : I got in a jam with a dame.

  Dr. Lorenz : Yes?

  Rick Leland : I needed some dough. I had access to the regimental funds so I borrowed it, intending to put it back, of course.

  Dr. Lorenz : Of course.

  Rick Leland : They found out first. The brass hats could have given me a chance if they wanted to, but they didn't. They tied me up with pink ribbons and threw me to the wolves. Write your own finish.

• Rick Leland : Maybe you overlooked something?

  Dr. Lorenz : Could you suggest anything, sir, that we might have overlooked?

  Rick Leland : What about your getaway?

  Dr. Lorenz : We have a rendezvous with an undersea boat.

• Dr. Lorenz : You probably don't share my enthusiasm for the Japanese.

  Rick Leland : I don't know, I never thought much about them.

  Dr. Lorenz : A wonderful little people. Wonderful. Greatly misunderstood, believe me. To know them, that is to really know them, is to feel the deepest affection for them.

• Dr. Lorenz : Don't you find, Mr. Leland, that the United States is inclined to forget that most of the world is at war already, with more war to come? Perhaps in the Pacific?

  Rick Leland : Well, if it comes, it'll have to do without me.

• Dr. Lorenz : Relationships between modern young Americans seem most peculiar to a man of my years. You give your lovemaking an assault and battery twist. Living so long in the Far East has perhaps given me a more or less Oriental view of things.