Judith Anderson
(as Emily Brent)
Judith Anderson
(as Emily Brent)
Emily Brent:
Very stupid to kill the only servant in the house. Now we don't even know where to find the marmalade.
Roland Young
(as Detective William Henry Blore)
Louis Hayward
(as Philip Lombard)
Detective William Henry Blore:
I know who took the dining room key!
Philip Lombard: Who?
Detective William Henry Blore: Rogers! He had the key to the dining room, fact. He unlocks the door, takes a little Indian, goes out and chops up some sticks, fact. And then...
Philip Lombard: And then he takes the chopper, and splits his own cranium, fact. I'd like to see you do that to yourself, Blore. It would take practice!
Philip Lombard: Who?
Detective William Henry Blore: Rogers! He had the key to the dining room, fact. He unlocks the door, takes a little Indian, goes out and chops up some sticks, fact. And then...
Philip Lombard: And then he takes the chopper, and splits his own cranium, fact. I'd like to see you do that to yourself, Blore. It would take practice!
Barry Fitzgerald
(as Judge Francis J. Quinncannon)
Judge Francis J. Quincannon:
So you see, the whole thing has been as inevitable as in a nursery rhyme. When the boat arrives from the mainland, there will be ten dead bodies, and a riddle no one can solve on Indian Island.
Barry Fitzgerald
(as Judge Francis J. Quinncannon)
Judge Francis J. Quinncannon:
Mr. Owen could only come to the island in one way. It's perfectly clear. Mr. Owen is one of us.
Richard Haydn
(as Thomas Rogers)
Thomas Rogers:
[Responding when the others want to give him a key] Shove it
[pause]
Thomas Rogers: under the door, sir.
[pause]
Thomas Rogers: under the door, sir.
Richard Haydn
(as Thomas Rogers)
Thomas Rogers:
Never in my life have I been accused of any crime, sir - and if that's what you think of me, I shan't serve any dinner.