Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)

Clark Gable: Rodney Spencer

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• Rodney Spencer : [to Susan]  Penthouses and politicians don't last forever, do they?

• Rodney Spencer : [to Susan]  Every other man took you at your own price... nothing!

• Rodney Spencer : [Last lines]  Every time a man would come along, I'd wonder.

  Susan Lenox : I'll make you believe in me.

• Susan Lenox : [Running after Rodney]  Let me explain. I don't know what will become of me if you leave me.

  Rodney Spencer : I'll tell you what'll become of you. You'll go from one man to the other just like every other woman in the gutter...

  Susan Lenox : Gutter?

  Rodney Spencer : Yes!

  Susan Lenox : All right, but I'll make it a worthwhile gutter. I always hated men until I met you... hated them! From now on it'll be different.

• Burlingham : [Referring to Susan]  I wish she'd marry me. She's fine.

  Rodney Spencer : [Mockingly]  Marry! Say, listen, all you need is the price of a marriage license - just the price, not the wedding - just the price.

• Rodney Spencer : You know what we'll do? We'll talk about me. You know who I am? No? Well, I'll tell you. I'm Rodney, Mr. Spencer's little boy. I'm 30, white and unmarried. I'm really a very fine fellow. Never unkind to animals. Never kick babies in the teeth. Always courteous when drunk. Yea, this is my old man's cabin. He wanted me to become a lawyer. So, obedient to his every wish, I took a course in engineering. Opportunity came to me in the guise of a bridge to be constructed in Detroit. But competition opened the wall. I'm here now, working on my model. And after I win the competition, I hope to go on and on and on and on and on and carve a great career for myself. And will you have cream or sugar in your coffee?

• Rodney Spencer : Now I've got you, you bad girl. Are you gonna be good? Are you?

• Susan Lenox : Oh Rodney, I know now that it wasn't true, all those things my uncle said about her. About her not being good because she didn't have a ring.

  Rodney Spencer : But, you're going to have a ring Helga. I'm bringing one back with me.

• Rodney Spencer : You took your time about catching up with me, didn't you.

  Susan Lenox : It costs money and I had to work.

  Rodney Spencer : Same old trade, huh?

  Susan Lenox : Since I last saw you, no man has had a minute from me. Not even a second.

  Rodney Spencer : You're lying.

  Susan Lenox : No man since then.

• Susan Lenox : Our love for each other has made such a wreck of everything. Your fault as well as mine. I thought that we might try again.

  Rodney Spencer : You know, you're the only woman I ever wanted to build a fence around and have all to myself. Yeah, you built the fence - an army of men.

  Susan Lenox : But, I never wanted anyone but you. There never was a time that I wouldn't have been as true as heaven, if you'd only have let me. Oh, Rodney, I'll do anything for you, go anywhere you like. I'll share anything, or nothing. We should forgive each other and try again. We've got to forgive each other, Rodney.

• Rodney Spencer : Heat! Booze! Insects! Damp Rot! And Sweat! But, it eats up the memory of you!

• Susan Lenox : This hurt that we have inflicted upon each other, its become a bond. Nothing can break it. But, just like, like two cripples, twisted. Only together can we ever become straight.

  Rodney Spencer : You have a queer way of looking at things.