After Tonight (1933)

Constance Bennett: Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag

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• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : All I wanted was to get to Vienna. And if you could change this note, I'd be awfully grateful.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Why, of course. But, couldn't you go via Madrid? It's really right on the way - and, eh, I'm going to Madrid.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I'm sure you'll like it. It's a charming place, full of antiquity and, eh, bull fights.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Shall we get aboard then?

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : We? Oh, then you're going to let me travel with you.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Well, I can't think of any way to stop you.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Somehow, I hate to go.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Somehow, I hate to have you.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : A ticket to Vienna, please.

  Railroad Ticket Clerk : No trains to Austria.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : How about Switzerland?

  Railroad Ticket Clerk : Only as far as Wurm.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : All right, Wurm then.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : [singing]  Let's be gay, Let us play, Till the night is gone, No regrets, We'll forget, When we part at dawn...

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : I hope you're not going to keep on evading me.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I think I'm being very accommodating. Here I am and there you are.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Yes. But, there you were that night at the station and then in five minutes, there you weren't.

• Maj. Lieber : So, you two know each other.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Know her? Why, I've been madly in love with her for years. Introduce us, will you, Major?

  Maj. Lieber : Introduce you?

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Yes. The name has rather slipped his mind.

  Maj. Lieber : Oh, of course. Fräulein Schöntag allow me to present the man who's been madly in love with you for years, Captain Rudolf Ritter.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : [singing]  Love's an illusion, Nothing is free, Pay for the wine, And pay for a kiss, You will discover, The art of a lover, So, buy a kiss, Try a kiss, Buy a kiss from me, There is bliss, In a kiss, Given tenderly...

• Frau Stengel : Won't you sit down, if you can find a place to sit. Oh, if this crazy war keeps up for another month, I won't have a chair to sit on.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : As it is, you haven't many windows left, have you?

  Frau Stengel : It's those air raids. You'd think those men have nothing to do but break windows. I never saw such going on. It was bad enough before the war on Saturday night when the men got drunk. But, now they go around breaking things every day of the week.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : A clean getaway and very nicely done.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Getting away from a lot of people is easy. Getting away from one is difficult.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Are you still trying to escape?

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I'm trying to remember that someday I might have to - and you're going to make it terribly difficult.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : I'm going to make it impossible. I hope.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : I found all the things I wanted. In you.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : So have I. In you.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Will you forgive me for having you arrested?

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I'd probably forgive you if you'd had me shot.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : You're suspicious of me, aren't you? In that case, I think I'd rather be searched.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Oh, Rudy, when I'm with you, I - oh, why can't you take me away from here? Faraway where no one ever can find us.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Well, I - I might kidnap you.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Could you? I've always wanted to be kidnapped.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Rudy, suddenly it frightens me. Last night I forgot about the war, darling. It seemed far away. But, today it's closer than ever. It's - it's got us trapped.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : It's going to be lonely till you come back.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Oh, my darling, don't be lonely.

  [standing, presses Rudy's head against her chest] 

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : We'll be together again soon. Think of me as always wanting to come to you. No matter how long I'm kept away. And please, never stop loving me.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : I once believed that fate was kind.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : But, you see, it isn't. It's laughing at us.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I once knew a man who stole a car with a newly married couple in it.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Did they mind?

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : They never knew. He took them to Oberammergau.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : To the Passion Play?

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Uh-huh. Of course, that was the last place they wanted to go. But, under the circumstances, one place is just as good as another, don't you think?

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : It's a chance to be free. To have quiet around me. Peace in my mind. Something would last. That won't end tomorrow. Or, tonight. Or, a moment from now. Something that will never end. Oh, Rudy, if we could only do it all.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : [on the train, leaning in closer to Carla]  I didn't know any Viennese had such lovely hair.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I didn't say I was Viennese, I said I was going to Vienna. Just because a cat gets in an oven there's no sign she's a biscuit.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Oh, then you aren't Viennese.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I didn't say that either. Perhaps we're fellow townsmen.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : We might even be neighbors.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : We might even be relatives.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Heaven forbid. Friends is enough, eh, close enough friends.