The Day of the Triffids (1963)

Howard Keel: Bill Masen

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• Christine Durrant : [seeing the devastated French naval base at Toulon]  Where will we go in Spain?

  Bill Masen : Well, there's a big American naval base in southern Spain at Cadiz. They're equipped for disaster. They got supplies. They're disciplined.

  Christine Durrant : So were the French at Toulon.

• Bill Masen : Feel guilty, hmmm?

  Christine Durrant : Maybe.

  Bill Masen : You know why?

  Christine Durrant : Why?

  Bill Masen : Because you survived. Bettina, Coker & all the rest dead. And you're alive, and you wonder why.

  Christine Durrant : That's exactly right.

  Bill Masen : Yeah, I know the feeling. During the war, you get a ship shot out from underneath you. All your friends gone, and only a handful left. And you ask yourself "Why me? Why not someone better?"