The Little Hut (1957)

Ava Gardner: Lady Susan Ashlow

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• Mario : On this island, madame, man have primitive desires.

  Lady Susan Ashlow : [laughs]  They certainly do.

• Sir Philip Ashlow : Are you trying to tell us that after only one half hour in the hut, you learned to speak his savage tongue?

  Lady Susan Ashlow : No, darling, only a couple words. We used sign language. He's awfully good at it.

• Lady Susan Ashlow : Any man that tells the world that his wife is incapable of having a lover deserves to suffer.

• Lady Susan Ashlow : Oh, darling cuddly bumps! You must be absolutely thrilled to death!

• Lady Susan Ashlow : Darling, how do you like my new nighty?

• Lady Susan Ashlow : Oh, what a lovely little island. I wonder if anybody lives here?

  Henry Brittingham-Brett : Like our luck, it's probably swarming with savages.

• Henry Brittingham-Brett : All this talk of honeymoons and gardens of eden, anybody figured out my role in this three-cornered paradise?

  Lady Susan Ashlow : Yes, darling. You can figure out the proper seating arrangement.

• Henry Brittingham-Brett : Are you decent?

  Lady Susan Ashlow : Don't worry darling, I've got my slip on.

• Lady Susan Ashlow : Didn't Philip tell you? He's building a big hut for him and me and a little hut for you.

  Henry Brittingham-Brett : In deed.

  Lady Susan Ashlow : Well, we can't very well go on sleeping under the stars all the time, can we? We can't all live in one hut together. Well, we can't, really, can we?

  Henry Brittingham-Brett : I think the sleeping arrangements leave a lot to be desired.

• Lady Susan Ashlow : Philip.

  Sir Philip Ashlow : Yes, my pet.

  Lady Susan Ashlow : You know, darling, I'll bet that's the trouble.

  Sir Philip Ashlow : What is?

  Lady Susan Ashlow : You always call me "my pet." And that's the way you treated me. Like a pet. Like a nice amusing little pet, almost like Nelson. And never like a wife. Isn't that true?

• Lady Susan Ashlow : That's quite a tan you've acquired.

  Mario : Oh, eh, I'm almost naked, madame.

  Lady Susan Ashlow : Yes, yes you are, aren't you.

• Sir Philip Ashlow : Now, let me see now, is there anything I've forgotten before I turn out the light? All right. I don't think. I've taken care of everything. Don't you?

  Lady Susan Ashlow : Almost everything. Good night!

  Sir Philip Ashlow : Sleep tight, my pet.

• Henry Brittingham-Brett : Susan, I'm astounded! Never in my whole life have I seen such a deplorable exhibition!

  Lady Susan Ashlow : Well, of all the ingratitudes!

  Sir Philip Ashlow : Ingratitude!

  Lady Susan Ashlow : Well, I had to do something to save your lives.

  Sir Philip Ashlow : That was no reason for you to bow and scrap and curtsy in that humiliating fashion!