The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

Byron Webster: Purser

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• Purser : For God's sake, Reverend, what you're doing is suicide!

  Reverend Frank Scott : We're cut off from the rest of the world. They can't get to us. Maybe we can get to them. You've said enough, now get out of the way.

  Purser : Pray for us, but don't do this!

  [to the others] 

  Purser : Climbing to another deck will kill you all!

  Reverend Frank Scott : And sitting on our butts is not going to help us either. Maybe by climbing out of here, we can save ourselves. If you've got any sense, you'll come along with us.

• Purser : We must stay until help arrives.

  Reverend Scott : Help from where? From the captain? He's dead. Everyone above us before the ship turned over is dead. Because now they're under the water.

  Purser : That's not true!

  Reverend Scott : It is true, you pompous ass!

• Purser : ln spite of what you may have heard to the contrary, he really runs the ship. Not the captain, the purser. You see, the Poseidon isn't really a ship. lt's a hotel with a bow and a stern stuck on - and l'm the hotel manager.