Peter Pan (1960 TV Movie)
Cyril Ritchard: Mr. Darling, Captain Hook
Quotes
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Captain Hook : But Peter threw me hand to a crocodile, who happened to be passing by. And that croc liked the taste of me hand so much, he's followed me ever since. From land to land, from sea to sea, he follows the ship - licking his lips for the rest of me.
Smee : Well, in a way, it is a sort of compliment.
Captain Hook : [bonking Smee on the head] Well, I want no such compliment.
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Captain Hook : No little children love me. I'm told they play at Peter Pan, and the strongest always chooses to be Peter. They force the baby to be Hook. The baby - that's where the canker gnaws. I'm told they find Smee lovable. How can I break it to him that they find him lovable?
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Captain Hook : The game is up. Those boys have found a mother.
Smee : What's a mother?
[Hook bonks Smee on the head]
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Captain Hook : Split me infinitives, but 'tis me hour of triumph!
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Captain Hook : No! By carbonate of soda, no!
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Captain Hook : [pausing, out of breath, during the duel with Peter] 'Tisn't fair! I say it as though it were my last breath - it isn't fair! Pan, who and what art thou?
Peter Pan : I am youth. I am joy. I am freedom!
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Captain Hook : Well if you are Captain Hook, then what am I?
Peter Pan : A codfish.
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Mrs. Darling : George, we must keep Nana.
[whispers]
Mrs. Darling : I'll tell you why.
[to the kids]
Mrs. Darling : Get ready for bed, children, now run along...
[children leave]
Mrs. Darling : George, tonight I saw a face at the window.
Mr. Darling : Face at the window, two floors up?
Mrs. Darling : It was the face of a little boy, he was trying to get in.
Mr. Darling : That's impossible.
Mrs. Darling : But that's not the first time I've seen that boy.
Mr. Darling : Oh?
Mrs. Darling : The first time was a week ago, I remember because it was Nana's night off... I was sitting over there by the fire, when suddenly I felt a draft, as though the window were open... I looked... and I saw that boy in the room, I screamed. Just then Nana came in and sprang at him at once, the boy leapt through the window, Nana closed it quickly, but it was too late to catch him.
Mr. Darling : I thought so.
Mrs. Darling : But wait! *He* escaped, but his shadow hadn't time to get out. I hid it...
[takes it out of Wendy's dresser drawer]
Mrs. Darling : I rolled it up, and here it is.
Mr. Darling : Aha! Hmmm... Well, I don't think it's anyone we know, though he does look a scoundrel.
Mrs. Darling : You know, George, I think he comes back trying to get his shadow.
Mr. Darling : I dare say...
Mrs. Darling : But wait, I haven't told you all. The boy was not quite alone; he was accompanied by... Well, I don't know how to describe it... by a bolt of light no bigger than my fist that darted around the room, like a living thing.
Mr. Darling : This is most unusual.
Mrs. Darling : George, what can it mean?
Mr. Darling : What indeed? What indeed?
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Mr. Darling : [to Mrs. Darling] I warn you of this, Mother, that if this tie does not go round my neck, we don't go out to dinner tonight. And if we don't go out to dinner tonight, I never go to the office again. And if I never go to the office again, you and I will starve, and our children will be flung into the streets.
