Five Miles to Midnight (1962)

Sophia Loren: Lisa Macklin

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• Lisa Macklin : We might as well face up to it, once and for all. Bob, our marriage isn't a marriage, it never has been. It's a spoiled little boy with a nurse maid.

  Robert Macklin : With such a beautiful nurse maid.

  Lisa Macklin : Bob, please!

  Robert Macklin : Well, I am pretty much of a bust, I guess, and you're right, we are kind of an odd combination. But, even if you don't know it, you need me just as much as I need you. It's our kind of love - which makes the world go 'round. Rather bumpily sometimes, but, 'round it goes!

• Lisa Macklin : Bob, let me see your leg. It looks infected.

  Robert Macklin : No, no, no. It's nothing. Nothing. Just a tiny smidge of gangrene.

• David Barnes : Would you like a drink?

  Lisa Macklin : No, thank you very much.

  David Barnes : Oh, you sure you don't want to stay and see my stamp collection?

• David Barnes : It's strange, I hadn't really planned to come to Paris at all. I was ready to dig up a new assignment when I ran into Alan in Geneva. The next thing I knew I was installed in his apartment and you walked in. That's when I got the happy idea that you went with the place. Which was a bad idea, I admit. Then we ran into each other on the street. Fate. Fate.

  Lisa Macklin : I know. Bigger than the both of us. But certainly it wasn't fate that made you follow me to the shop.

  David Barnes : No, that was just good, healthy curiosity. Second nature to a newspaper man. Especially when a beautiful woman's involved.

• David Barnes : You looked like you were in trouble.

  Lisa Macklin : What made you think that?

  David Barnes : Oh, a little addition, a little subtraction.

• Robert Macklin : My poor Neapolitan firecracker. Married all these years to a guy who turned her into an iceberg! Correction: not an iceberg. An iceberg is ninety-eight percent underwater and you're not ninety-eight percent underwater, are you?

  Lisa Macklin : Bob...

  Robert Macklin : Angel eyes, you're still my wife! It's a wife's duty to love and cherish her husband, even if he is no longer among the living. N'est-ce pa?

• David Barnes : You don't Twist?

  Lisa Macklin : Oh, not right now, thanks.

  David Barnes : Well, that's good news.

• David Barnes : Oh, I forgot. You don't smoke.

  Lisa Macklin : Sometimes I do.

• David Barnes : Were you in love with him?

  Lisa Macklin : I thought I was for awhile.

  David Barnes : It doesn't sound like it was for very long.

  Lisa Macklin : No, it wasn't. But, you don't quit with the first sign of trouble. Somehow you try to make it work. It's hard just to say: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I made a mistake. Ciao.

• Robert Macklin : So, what did you do? Dance all night? Watch the dawn coming up over the Seine? End up with onion soup at Les Halles?

  Lisa Macklin : As a matter of fact, that's almost what I did do. Except I didn't watch the dawn and the soup wasn't at Les Halles.