If I Were Free (1933)

Jacques Lory: Man Selling French Postcards

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Man Selling French Postcards : [scene: a Paris street cafe]  Des cartes postales, m'sieur? Des cartes postales, sir?

  [Man seated with lady shoos the vendor away] 

  Man Selling French Postcards : [approaching Gordon and Hector's table]  Postal cards, m'sier? *Dirty* postcards?

  Hector Stribling : [turning away, disgusted]  Uh!

  Gordon Evers : Charming.

  [taking the cards] 

  Gordon Evers : Would you like to look at them, Hector?

  Hector Stribling : Certainly not!

  Gordon Evers : How much are they?

  Man Selling French Postcards : Twenty francs.

  Gordon Evers : There you are.

  Man Selling French Postcards : Merci m'sieur. Merci.

  [Gordon tears up the cards, bows to the vendor, and throws the pieces away] 

  Hector Stribling : Why... why on earth did you do that?

  Gordon Evers : Who knows, it may save the soul of some American tourist.