Doctor X (1932)
Arthur Edmund Carewe: Dr. Rowitz
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Quotes
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Dr. Haines, Academy of Surgical Research : If you ask me, I think Dr. Xavier is using very unethical methods.
Dr. Rowitz : Necessity has no ethics, sir.
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Dr. Haines, Academy of Surgical Research : One moment, doctor. Were the murdered women... "attacked"?
Dr. Rowitz : Does your mind never run into any other channel?
Dr. Haines, Academy of Surgical Research : [indignantly] What do you *mean* by that statement?
Dr. Rowitz : I mean that your sadistic tendencies may someday carry you too far, Dr. Haines.
Dr. Haines, Academy of Surgical Research : [angrily] You, you!...
Dr. Jerry Xavier : Silence, gentlemen, please!
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Dr. Rowitz : It affects strangely certain neurotic types. Yes, the moon is powerful. Why, twice a day it lifts billions of tons of water at high tide that wash the shores of the world, like an eternal old scrubwoman.
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Police Commissioner Stevens : You're an astronomer, Doctor?
Dr. Rowitz : Not that, sir. I have an interest in the light qualities of the moon. If you might suffer sunstroke, might you not suffer some similar evil - from the rays of the moon?
Police Commissioner Stevens : Moonstruck, you mean?
Dr. Rowitz : Exactly, what we call lunacy, from the word luna, meaning the moon. Latin, you know. However, the luna rays will never affect you or me, sir; because, we are normal people.
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Dr. Jerry Xavier : I want every one of you to submit to a psycho-neurological test. An experiment that I have devised, which I hope will prove each one of us innocent.
Dr. Rowitz : But, if it should prove otherwise?
Dr. Jerry Xavier : Well then, my dear doctor, surely one's own... "farewell to life"... is preferable to that demanded by the law.