Ship of Fools (1965)

Werner Klemperer: Hübner, 3. Offizier

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• Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Who puts 600 people on a deck with only two outlets to wash?

  Lt. Huebner : Huh, you don't know them; they wouldn't wash if they could. You don't know what pigs they are.

  Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : The deck is to be cleaned. Bring the hoses out.

  Lt. Huebner : The hoses?

  Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Bring the hoses out, I said!

  Lt. Huebner : I cannot turn the hoses on them.

  Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : It's better to turn the hoses on them than for them live this way, no?

• Mary Treadwell : Forty-six. Me! Forty-six. I can't believe it. Forty-six.

  Lt. Huebner : Well, we Europeans are not as conscious of age as you are. Besides, when one looks as you do and arouses in people the feeling you do, does it really matter?

  Mary Treadwell : You're very kind, but it's the time when hearts grow cold and hard. Women lose their grace and become shrill. They run to fat or turn to beanpole. Take to secret drinking. They marry men too young for them and get just what they deserve. It's enough to scare anyone waiting for fear and loneliness to do their work.

  Lt. Huebner : Mrs. Treadwell, you are a very exciting woman, and you know it.

  Mary Treadwell : Tell me, would it unnerve you to have an affair with me?

• Mary Treadwell : My God, he stalks them like a mountain lion. Did you see the make up on those girls? Do men really find that attractive?

  Lt. Huebner : Some, apparently do.

  Mary Treadwell : Hmmm. I would think that men would like to know what they were kissing.

• Lt. Huebner : Mrs. Treadwell, I am only a third grade officer on a second rate ship. It has given me the opportunity to observe people. I have seen women like you before. Forty-six year old women who are still coquettes. They travel on boats often, always searching for something. You know where that searching ends, Mrs. Treadwell? It ends by sitting in a nightclub with a paid escort who tells you the lies you must hear.

  Mary Treadwell : You are a most mundane, ordinary man. How extraordinary that a man like you is saying things like this to me. Probably true. I think this evenings festivities have come to an end.

• Mary Treadwell : Did you see the makeup on those girls? Do men really find that attractive?

  Lt. Huebner : Some apparently do.

  Mary Treadwell : Hmmm. I would think that men would like to know what they were gettin'

• Lt. Huebner : Then why did you lead me on during this trip? You never considered my feelings at all, did you?

  Mary Treadwell : No. And I'm sorry for that.