Logan's Run (1976)

Peter Ustinov: Old Man

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• Old Man : You mean to say that those people know ahead of time when they're gonna die?

  Logan : That's right.

  Old Man : Oh, that's silly. What's the reason for that?

  Logan : That's the way things are. The way things have always been.

  Old Man : Yeah, it takes all the fun out of dying.

• Old Man : [paraphrasing T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"]  The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it's not just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter, when I tell you that each cat's got three different names.

• Logan : They lived together? All their years?

  Old Man : Yeah. Oh, well, before I come along, I don't know what. But, after, I, oh yes. They did.

  Jessica : So, people stayed together for this feeling of love? They would live and raise children and be remembered?

  Old Man : Yeah. Raised me, didn't they? Right in there. Yeah.

  Jessica : I think I'd like that, Logan. Don't you?

  Logan : Why not?

  Jessica : Beloved husband.

  Logan : Beloved wife.

  Old Man : Beloved son.

• Jessica : Look at his face and his hair. Is that what it is to grow old?

  Old Man : Well, I guess so. Yes.

  Logan : How old are you?

  Old Man : I'm as old as I am, I suppose.

  Logan : Your hair is - your hair is white?

  Old Man : Yeah. Well, it wasn't always that color. I got my color someplace here. It wasn't your color and it wasn't much like her's either.

  Jessica : Those cracks, on your face, do they hurt?

  Old Man : No.

  Jessica : Can I touch them?

  Old Man : Oh, my! Try.

• Old Man : Nothin' sadder than a dead fish.

• Logan : Well, has, uh, anyone else ever passed through here?

  Old Man : No. Oh, there may be a few out there. I don't know. No, I don't know.

  Logan : What makes you think that?

  Old Man : Well, my parents told me. My mother... and my, you know, the... um, father.

  Logan : You knew your mother and father?

  Old Man : Sure. They raised me. Uh, you know... They raised me.

  Jessica : How were you grown? Inside your mother?

  Old Man : Right in there.

  Jessica : Are you sure?

  Old Man : Well, that's what she told me. I have to, I have to believe her. I don't know.

• [repeated line] 

  Old Man : Oh my!

• Old Man : [admiring Logan and Jessica's time crystals]  Can I have one of those?

  Logan : I'm afraid that's not possible.

• Logan : Who are you?

  Old Man : Who are you?

  Logan : I'm Logan 5. This is Jessica 6.

  Old Man : Well, I never much cared for my name, even when I could remember it.

  Jessica : We're from the city.

  Logan : Yes. Yes, we came through the ice. We got past Box.

  Old Man : Box?

  Jessica : This is Sanctuary, isn't it?

  Old Man : Sanctuary?