Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Diana Rigg: Arlena Stuart Marshall
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Quotes
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : Oh, dear! I'm the last to arrive.
Daphne Castle : Have a sausage. You must be starving having to wait all that time in your room.
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : [to Linda Marshall] Linda do stop standing there like a coughdrop and say good morning to Monsieur Poirot!
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : Thank you for those three hours of sheer, and unadulterated hell! This may come as a nasty surprise to you but shock absorbers have been standardized equipment on motorized vehicles for thirty years!
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : [arriving at outdoor buffet luncheon in swimming attire] I'm so sorry, are we late? Patrick insisted upon rowing me right round the island and its much bigger than I thought. Poor darling, he's absolutely exhausted.
Daphne Castle : [dryly, knowing what they've actually been up to] I'm not in the least surprised.
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : What's it called, anyway?
Odell Gardener : It's not right and it's not fair.
Arlena Stuart Marshall : Sounds like a blackman's left leg.
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : Oh, my God. She runs like a dromedary with dropsy.
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : God's teeth!
Kenneth Marshall : Don't worry, darling. It's only the noonday gun.
Poirot : The noonday gun?
Kenneth Marshall : Yes, it's fired every day at 12 o'clock to commemorate the glorious victory of Kosovo-Metohija in 1193. I'm reliably informed that a mere handful of Tyranian cavalry routed over 50,000 barbarous Bosnian fanatics. It was apparently the only military success of their entire history.
Poirot : One success too many.
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : The sweet way you wrote about how I landed my first leading role in "Flames of Eternity". How ever did you find out?
Rex Brewster : I bribed his wife.
Arlena Stuart Marshall : Oh! Naughty Rex!
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : If it's fun you're looking for, darling, go play with the jellyfish.
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : What's it called anyway?
Odell Gardener : "It's Not Right And It's Not Fair".
[hands Arlena the script]
Arlena Stuart Marshall : Sounds like a black man's left leg.
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : That's enough, Linda. It's adult time. Off to bed.
Patrick Redfern : Oh, come on, darling. Let her stay. She is on holiday, after all.
Arlena Stuart Marshall : Scram, Cinderella.
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Kenneth Marshall : I've just been having a word with Daphne.
Arlena Stuart Marshall : You get on like a house on fire with her, don't you?
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Rex Brewster : I must talk to you, Arlena darling.
Arlena Stuart Marshall : Not now, Rexy-poo.
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Arlena Stuart Marshall : [singing] You're the - top, You're the Colosseum, You're the top, You're the Louvre Museum, You're the nimble
Arlena Stuart Marshall , Daphne Castle : Tread, Of the feet of Fred Astaire, You're the National Gallery
Daphne Castle : You're Garbo's salary, You're Camembert! You're the Nile, You're the Tower of Pisa, You're the smile on the Mona Lisa, I'm a worthless cheque, A total wreck, A flop, But if, baby, I'm the bottom You're the top!
