The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Michael Redgrave: Gilbert Redman

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• Gilbert : Can I help?

  Iris Henderson : Only by going away.

  Gilbert : No, no, no, no. My father always taught me, never desert a lady in trouble. He even carried that as far as marrying Mother.

• Gilbert : Come on, sit down, take it easy. What's the trouble?

  Iris Henderson : If you must know, something fell on my head.

  Gilbert : When, infancy?

• Dr. Hartz : And I am Dr. Egon Hartz; you may have heard of me.

  Gilbert : Not the brain surgeon?

  Dr. Hartz : Yes, the same.

  Gilbert : Yes, you flew over to England the other day and operated on one of our cabinet ministers.

  Dr. Hartz : Oh, yes.

  Gilbert : Tell me, did you find anything?

• Gilbert : I'm about as popular as a dose of strychnine.

• Iris Henderson : You're the most contemptible person I've ever met in all my life!

  Gilbert : Confidentially, I think you're a bit of a stinker, too.

• Iris Henderson : Did you notice the nun in there with the patient?

  Gilbert : No, not really...

  Iris Henderson : Nuns don't wear high heels.

• Iris Henderson : I was having tea about an hour ago with an English lady. You saw her, didn't you?

  Charters : Well, I don't know, I mean, I was talking to my friend, wasn't I?

  Caldicott : Indubitably.

  Iris Henderson : Yes, but you were sitting at the next table. She turned and borrowed the sugar. You must remember.

  Charters : Yes, I recall passing the sugar.

  Iris Henderson : Well then you saw her.

  Charters : I repeat we were deep in conversation. We were discussing cricket.

  Iris Henderson : Well, I don't see how a thing like cricket can make you forget seeing people.

  Charters : Oh, don't you? If that's your attitude, there's nothing more to be said! Come Caldicott. "A thing like cricket!"

  Gilbert : Wrong tactics. We should've told him we were looking for a lost cricket ball.

• Gilbert : Never climb a fence if you can sit on it.

• Gilbert : What was she wearing? Scotch tweeds wasn't it?

  Iris Henderson : Oatmeal tweeds.

  Gilbert : I knew it had something to do with porridge.

• Gilbert : [Opening the door to the lavatory]  Are you all right Miss Froy?

  Miss Froy : [Speaking from the cramped lavatory]  Yes, thank you. It's rather like the rush hour on the Underground!

• Iris Henderson : [Seated with Gilbert in the Foreign Office waiting area]  Where are we going for our honeymoon?

  Gilbert : I don't know, somewhere quiet. Somewhere where there are no trains.

  Foreign Office Man : [Emerging from the door to an office]  Mr. Campbell will see you now.

  Gilbert : [Walks toward the door with Iris, then stops]  Wait a minute. It's gone!

  Iris Henderson : What's gone?

  Gilbert : Why the tune! I've forgot it!

  Iris Henderson : No, no!

  Gilbert : Wait a minute, let me concentrate.

  [sings] 

  Iris Henderson : No, no, no , no, that's the Wedding March!

• Gilbert : [wearing a deerstalker and brandishing a calabash pipe]  Let's marshal the facts over a pipeful of Baker Street shag.

• Iris Matilda Henderson : You were about to tell me of your theory.

  Gilbert Redman : Oh, my theory. Well, my theory, my dear Watson, is that we are in very deep waters indeed. Thank you, very much. Let us marshal our facts over a pipeful of Baker Street shag.

• Gilbert Redman : l refuse to be discouraged. Faint heart never found old lady.

• Gilbert Redman : Naughty. Naughty. You know, that's a very large nose for a very small pair of spectacles!

• Gilbert Redman : [spanks Iris' behind]  Come on kid, you're not drugged. I'll explain later.

• Iris Matilda Henderson : Where are you?

  Gilbert Redman : I'm in here with a strong smell of camphor balls.

• Gilbert Redman : You carry on keeping fit. Touch your toes. Stand on your head. Do anything! Only, whatever you do, don't fall asleep.

• Gilbert Redman : We've got to search this train. There's something definitely queer in the air.

• Iris Henderson : Was she hit?

  Gilbert : I can't tell!