Condemned! (1929)

Ann Harding: Mme. Vidal

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• Madame Vidal : Here, let me have those things. That's a woman's work, not a man's.

  Michel : Whatever it is, it's my work Madame. Anyway, I'm not a man, I'm a convict.

• Madame Vidal : Oh, Michel, my husband doesn't mean it. He just - doesn't think.

  Michel : Have you noticed that too, Madame?

• Michel : What do you remember about France, Madame?

  Madame Vidal : Oh, I just remember my little village in Alsace.

  Michel : I've never been to Alsace.

  Madame Vidal : No?

  Michel : No, there wouldn't be much there for a thief to steal.

• Michel : Tell me about your village, Madame.

  Madame Vidal : All life was very pleasant there. Peaceful and safe. There's a little square, just like any other, where the young people walk and make love in the evening.

• Madame Vidal : Poor convicts. Prison! Everywhere you look here, prison! Don't you ever think of getting away from here? Across the sea? Back home?

  Michel : If you mean escape, no, Madame, I do not.

  Madame Vidal : If I were a prisoner, I'd escape.

  Michel : No, you'd get caught.

  Madame Vidal : I'd try, just the same. I'd die trying! Well, that wasn't a nice thing for me to say to you.

  Michel : Why shouldn't you say it? After all, you're just as much a prisoner as I am?

• Michel : Well, now that we've started...

  Madame Vidal : Started?

  Michel : Yes. Haven't we started? Who would have thought we had so much to say.

  Madame Vidal : No, monsieur. There are somethings that better not be said.

• Michel : If you were a prisoner, you'd escape, you said.

  Madame Vidal : There are some prisons I can't escape from.

• Madame Vidal : What have you done?

  Jean Vidal : What have I done? Your lover tried to murder me!

• Jean Vidal : He won't give us any more trouble. Not for six months, anyway.

  Madame Vidal : Why don't you lock me up in a cell too?

  Jean Vidal : I suppose you don't think you deserve any punishment. You have no moral sense! You make a laughing stock of me and then stand there like Joan of Arc!

• Jean Vidal : You're shameless! Positively shameless!

  Madame Vidal : I'm honest, anyway.