A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Roger Livesey: Dr. Frank Reeves
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Quotes
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Doctor Frank Reeves : A weak mind isn't strong enough to hurt itself. Stupidity has saved many a man from going mad.
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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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Doctor Frank Reeves : Sir, may I bring you up to date? We are living in the 20th century, not in the 18th.
Abraham Farlan : May I bring you up to date, sir? We are not alive at all.
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Peter : Look at her.
Bob : Holy smoke! She looks like a nice girl.
Doctor Frank Reeves : She is a nice girl.
Bob : Hardly your type, Skip.
Peter : I've fallen in love with her. Her accent is foreign, but it sounds sweet to me. We were born thousands of miles apart, but we were made for each other.
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Doctor Frank Reeves : Ah, there's June. She walks in beauty, like the night... Only she's cycling and it's daytime.
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Abraham Farlan : Be careful, doctor Reeves. In the whole Universe, nothing is stronger than The Law.
Doctor Frank Reeves : Yes, Mr. Farlan, nothing is stronger than The Law in the Universe, but on Earth nothing is stronger than Love.
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Doctor Frank Reeves : This is a court of justice, not of law.
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Doctor Frank Reeves : The rights of the uncommon man must always be respected.
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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.
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Doctor Frank Reeves : Milord, I submit that this court is concerned with the life and death of Peter Carter and not with past history or present plumbing.
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Doctor Frank Reeves : I doubt if you have more practical freedom in America than in England. An Englishman thinks as he likes in religion and politics.
Abraham Farlan : It isn't what a man thinks and says, it's when and where, and to whom he thinks and says it. A man with a flint and steel, striking sparks over a wet blanket, is one thing. But striking them over a tinderbox is another.