The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

Susan Hayward: Helen

Quotes 

• Helen : Hello, Molo, you white man's burden, you!

  Molo, African Servant : [talks in an African language] 

  Helen : Darling, we only got the first aid book.

  Harry Street : [looking at the witch doctor]  What's he going to do, sprinkle me with monkey dust?

  Helen : Darling!

  Harry Street : A hair from the tail of a leopard?

• Harry Street : Whiskey soda. Make it pronto, Molo.

  Helen : It's bad for you.

  Harry Street : No, it isn't . It's good for me.

  Helen : It's not good for you!

  Harry Street : No. "It's Bad for Me". Cole Porter wrote the words and music.

  [sings] 

  Harry Street : The knowledge that you're going mad for me.

  [talks] 

  Harry Street : There, that's poetry. Oh, I'm full of poetry now. *Rot* and poetry.

  Helen : Harry.

  Harry Street : Rotten poetry!

• Helen : You insisted on carrying the boy in your arms all the way back to camp. And it was from all his blood and dirt that you got that infection.

  Harry Street : That could be the point of view. From yours, it would be contact with the lower classes. Being a writer, I prefer to think that it was a quirk of fate, a mere prick of a thorn, that laid the great man low.

• Helen : Harry! Why do you have to turn into a devil?

  Harry Street : Because if I can't die happy, I can try to die delirious.

• Helen : Aren't you Mr. Harry Street, the author, whom I met in the Place Vendome?

  Harry Street : Yes, I'm Mr. Harry Street and I'm lost.

• Helen : You've never been able to forgive me for not being her, have you?