The Unsuspected (1947)

Claude Rains: Victor Grandison

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• Victor Grandison : The nicest thing about guests is their departure

• Victor Grandison : His day of reckoning must come. He is tormented by fear that someday he will make one false move, one slip that will betray him, and when he does, the lightning of justice will strike... the unsuspected.

• Victor Grandison : [to Max]  Only thieves and home-grown Casanovas catch the 7:15 train in the morning!

• Victor Grandison : [Noticing Steve for the first time]  Are you a late guest from the party or an early arrival for breakfast?

• Victor Grandison : [after listening to Steve's story]  Extraordinary, most extraordinary, but, you know, I didn't believe a word he said.

  Richard Donovan : It sounded too much like the truth to be true.

• Victor Grandison : You know, it's a sort of throbbing in the air - a feeling of inevitability, like, like, uh, falling in love - a vibration. Oh, you probably wouldn't remember.

  Jane Moynihan : I'll have you know I've vibrated in my time! Once in Kansas City I... Oh well, no use living in the past. But for six months I vibrated like a musical saw!

• Victor Grandison : [Gazing out of window]  It's much too nice a day for murder.

  Jane Moynihan : What's wrong, Victor? You've lost all your zip. You're as limp as an old girdle.

• Victor Grandison : [to an arguing Althea and Oliver]  I think you better excuse me. I detest scenes not of my own making. You know, the more I see of marriage, the more thankful I am to be the last of a long line of bachelors.

• Victor Grandison : [to Press]  Don't come here again. I'll call you if I need you. In your place I rather enjoy playing God.