Strange Interlude (1932)
Clark Gable: Ned Darrell
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Quotes
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Nina Leeds : [Inner thoughts] You do love me, Ned.
Dr. Ned Darrell : [Inner thoughts] I don't love you.
Charlie Marsden : [Inner thoughts] Darrell and Nina. There's something unnatural here. Love and hate and lust! Where's Sam? Why isn't he here? I hate Nina! I must punish her!
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Dr. Ned Darrell : [Inner thoughts] Queer fellow, Marsden. I thought he was so ingrown he didn't care about anyone. His mother. Now I begin to see him!
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Nina Leeds : [Inner thoughts] I love you. What do I care for anything in the world but you.
Dr. Ned Darrell : [Inner thoughts] The touch of her skin. What do I care for anything else.
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Dr. Ned Darrell : [to young Gordon] See here, son. there's things a man of honor doesn't tell anyone, not even his father and mother.
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Dr. Ned Darrell : [Thinking to himself about telling Sam the truth] I couldn't tell him. To kill happiness is a worse crime than taking a life.
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Dr. Ned Darrell : Hello, Marsden.
Charlie Marsden : When did you get back from Europe?
Dr. Ned Darrell : This morning, on the Olympic.
[Inner thoughts]
Dr. Ned Darrell : Look out for this fellow. Always had it in for me. He's like a woman, smells out love.
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Dr. Ned Darrell : You've got to give up owning people. Meddling in their lives as if you were God and had created them.
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Nina Leeds : Oh, Ned, are you saying you wanted to tell Gordon something?
Dr. Ned Darrell : No. There's - nothing to tell.
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Dr. Ned Darrell : You heard what Gordon said. He expects us to marry. But, he'll be so pleased when he knows you turned me down.
Nina Leeds : Yes. Our ghosts would torture us to death, wouldn't they.
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Dr. Ned Darrell : [Inner thoughts] How much need I tell him? I can't tell him the raw truth about her. I have to tone it down.
[Spoken]
Dr. Ned Darrell : Nina has been giving away more and more to a morbid longing for - martyrdom.
Charlie Marsden : May I ask in what specific actions of hers this theory of yours is based?
Dr. Ned Darrell : On her evident craving to make an exhibition of necking, spooning, in general, with any patient in the institution who got a case on her.
[Inner thoughts]
Dr. Ned Darrell : Spooning - probably a mild word, but, strong enough for this ladylike soul.
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Charlie Marsden : You know what I'm inclined to suspect, Doctor? That you may be in love with Nina yourself.
Dr. Ned Darrell : [Inner thoughts] Oh, really, I wonder if I am? Forget it! No woman's going to tangle up my career!
[Spoken]
Dr. Ned Darrell : No. In my mind she always belongs to Gordon. And I couldn't share a woman. Even with a ghost.
Charlie Marsden : I can quite appreciate your feeling about Gordon. I wouldn't care to share with a ghost-lover myself. That species of dead is so invulnerably alive - even a Doctor couldn't kill one, eh?
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Dr. Ned Darrell : [Inner thoughts] Oh, here comes that fussbudget Marsden and me to see Nina. He's an old maid who seduces himself in his novels.
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Dr. Ned Darrell : Miss Arnold, as a Doctor, I feel it my duty, that Mrs. Evans isn't herself. She's morbidly jealous of you and subject to queer delusions. So, get back to your race and God bless you.
