Dennis Price
(as Louis Mazzini)
Sibella:
[sobs] Oh Louis! I don't want to marry Lionel!
Louis Mazzini: Why not?
Sibella: He's so dull.
Louis Mazzini: I must admit he exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
Louis Mazzini: Why not?
Sibella: He's so dull.
Louis Mazzini: I must admit he exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
Joan Greenwood
(as Sibella Holland)
Sibella:
All of your cousins seem to get killed. I really wouldn't be the least surprised if you murdered them all.
Dennis Price
(as Louis Mazzini)
Sibella:
He says he wants to go to Europe to expand his mind.
Louis Mazzini: He certainly has room to do so.
Louis Mazzini: He certainly has room to do so.
Joan Greenwood
(as Sibella Holland)
Dennis Price
(as Louis Mazzini)
Sibella:
Oh, the Italian men are so handsome... but I could never get away from Lionel for a moment.
Sibella: But, I was forgetting... you're Italian.
Louis Mazzini: Half.
Sibella: But, I was forgetting... you're Italian.
Louis Mazzini: Half.
Joan Greenwood
(as Sibella Holland)
Sibella:
What would you say if she asked you about me?
Louis Mazzini: I'd say that you were the perfect combination of imperfections. I'd say that your nose was just a little too short, your mouth just a little too wide. But yours was a face that a man could see in his dreams for the whole of his life. I'd say that you were vain, selfish, cruel, deceitful. I'd say that you were... Sibella.
Sibella: What a pretty speech.
Louis Mazzini: I mean it.
Sibella: [seductively] Come and say it to me again.
Louis Mazzini: I'd say that you were the perfect combination of imperfections. I'd say that your nose was just a little too short, your mouth just a little too wide. But yours was a face that a man could see in his dreams for the whole of his life. I'd say that you were vain, selfish, cruel, deceitful. I'd say that you were... Sibella.
Sibella: What a pretty speech.
Louis Mazzini: I mean it.
Sibella: [seductively] Come and say it to me again.
Alec Guinness
(as The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha)
Alec Guinness
(as The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha)
The Hangman:
A difficult client can make things most distressing. Some of them tend to be very hysterical - so inconsiderate.
Alec Guinness
(as The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha)
The Parson:
[Describing his country church] I always say my West window has all the *exuberance* of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.