She Played with Fire (1957)

Jack Hawkins: Oliver Branwell

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Quotes 

• Oliver Branwell : There's nothing like an old flame to help the new fire along!

• Michael Abercrombie : I don't suppose she'll stay a widow very long.

  Oliver Branwell : Why do you say that?

  Michael Abercrombie : What - with her looks and a small fortune?

• [last lines] 

  Oliver Branwell : [voice over as he and Sarah are seen walking through an outdoor crowd]  It was not until we were walking away through the market afterwards that I realized how much of my heart was in my job and how much I loved it, but I told myself my mind was made up. I told Fred Connor, too... and Michael... and Berkeley Reckitt. They said, "couldn't we talk it over quietly." I told them "no", but then Sarah said surely there couldn't be any harm in just discussing it. And... well it... couldn't be any harm in just discussing it, could there.

  [Oliver and Sarah turn around and walk back with Michael, Fred and Berkeley] 

• [first lines] 

  Oliver Branwell : [voice over as he has just woken up and is staring out his bedroom window]  Lowis Manor. I shall never forget the day I first heard of that house. It was the morning of Christmas Eve, my second Christmas in the world of insurance.

  [switching scenes to the Abercrombie office] 

  Old Abercrombie : Oh, Oliver.

  Oliver Branwell : Yes, Mr. Abercrombie.

  Old Abercrombie : Michael says could you slip 'round to Lloyds. Apparently something others cropped up.

  Oliver Branwell : I thought on Christmas Eve, everything stopped dead on noon.

  Old Abercrombie : Probably some housebreaker was not aware of the date.

• Vere Litchen : Tell me, do all insurance investigators come like you?: big, and nice hair, deep brown eyes.

  Oliver Branwell : I don't know. I... probably don't look at them from absolutely the same angle.