The Room Upstairs (1946)

Jean Gabin: Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie

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• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : Have you lost something?

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : A four-leaf clover.

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : What?

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : It's a clover made of silver.

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : Here it is! Very pretty, but a shame it's made of silver.

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Why?

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : They say silver doesn't bring happiness.

• Jeanne Roumagnac - la soeur de Martin : I"ve made something you like.

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : Yeah?

  Jeanne Roumagnac - la soeur de Martin : Tripe.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : You're more than a sister to me...

  Jeanne Roumagnac - la soeur de Martin : More of a priest's housekeeper. Even so, you're my purgatory on earth.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : What would you like? It seems they serve a nice port here, but, I prefer Pernod.

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Then I'll have a Pernod.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : Are you a foreigner?

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : No, but I was born in Australia.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : I think life's beautiful, don't you?

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Yes, but, I find people depressing.

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : That is right sometimes. Often they don't know what their 10 fingers are for. I"m a hands-on person. With my bricks, I'm as happy as a little kid.

• Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Nest's are great. There! Look, on the top branch.

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : Ah, yes, looks like it's been empty for ages. That'a a tit's nest.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : What are you thinking about?

  Blanche Ferrand - une grainetière intrigante : Nothing, just the things that happen for people in hotel bedrooms.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : Miss, do you have Gauloises Blue?

  Boublitchhy Cigarette Girl : We don't sell them. Chesterfield, Players, Rio.

  Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : I don't smoke that stuff.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : I'm sorry. I didn't get to express my condolences.

  Monsieur de Laubry - le consul : Yes, my wife's death was a great tragedy for me. It had created a huge void. She'd been written off by the doctors for some time. Some deaths are a deliverance.

• Martin Roumagnac - un petit entrepreneur de maçonnerie : He's quite a guy, you're Consul. I don't like his thinking, but he has an education and doesn't abuse it.

  L'oncle de Blanche : Discretion is what typifies well brought-up people.