A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Kim Hunter: June
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Quotes
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Peter : June, are you pretty?
June : Not bad.
Peter : Can you hear me as well as I hear you?
June : Yes.
Peter : You've got a good voice. You've got guts too. It's funny - I've known dozens of girls: I've been in love with some of them, but an American girl whom I've never seen and who I never shall see will hear my last words. That's funny. It's rather sweet.
Peter : June, if you're around when they pick me up, turn your head away?
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Abraham Farlan : Child, where were you born?
June : In Boston Sir.
Abraham Farlan : Do you know this man?
June : I think so.
Abraham Farlan : You think so?
June : I only met him a few days ago.
Abraham Farlan : You hardly know him. How can you think you love him?
June : But I do love him.
Abraham Farlan : Nonsense my child.
Doctor Frank Reeves : I object. Council will withdraw the expression.
June : It's all right Frank. he's right. There's no sense in love.
Abraham Farlan : Wisdom still flowers in Boston.
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Peter : [over radio] Where were you born?
June : Boston.
Peter : Mass.?
June : Yes.
Peter : That's a place to be born, history was made there. Are you in love with anybody? No, no don't answer that.
June : I could love a man like you, Peter.
Peter : I love you, June. You're life and I'm leaving you.
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June : [opening words, before faces shown on screen] Request your position. Come in, Lancaster. Come in, Lancaster.
Peter : Position - nil, repeat nil. Age - 27, 27, did you get that? Very important. Education - interrupted, violently interrupted. Religion - Church of England. Politics - Conservative by nature, Labour by experience. What's your name?
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Doctor Frank Reeves : [talking to Peter] I've got bad news for you.
June : Then why the grin?
Doctor Frank Reeves : You're going with me.
June : Where to?
Doctor Frank Reeves : [talking to both June and Peter] To my house, for two reasons, first I want to meet this chap next time he drops in and second I like a nice girl around the house and she only come to see me to borrow a book, and she's a slow reader
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Doctor Frank Reeves : Tell me, do you believe in the survival of human personality after death?
Peter : I thought you said you read my verses.
[to June]
Doctor Frank Reeves : Do you?
June : I don't know, er, I'd never thought about it, do you?
Doctor Frank Reeves : I don't know, I've thought about it too much.