Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Don DeFore: Michael Kent

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Quotes 

• Michael Kent : Are you a good detective?

  Peter Virgil : Naturally, why?

  Michael Kent : Where did you do your traning?

  Peter Virgil : In the army. Intelligence G2.

  Michael Kent : Well how are you at the job?

  Peter Virgil : We won the war didn't we?

• Michael Kent : My wife is leaving day after tomorrow on a South American cruise and, well, she insists on going without me.

  Peter Virgil : Hm. And to a man of your suspicious nature that means only one thing: Another man on the boat.

  Michael Kent : Well, you see, I don't know, but that's what I want you to find out.

  Peter Virgil : Well, you've come to the right man. I have handled so many of these cases.

  [phone rings] 

  Peter Virgil : Excuse me.

  [picks up phone] 

  Peter Virgil : Hello?...Oh yes, how are you?...Well, certainly I shadowed your wife. I hate to tell you this, but you were right, she's been two-timing you.

  [we hear a thud on the other end of the line] 

  Peter Virgil : Hello? Hello?

  [aside to Mr. Kent] 

  Peter Virgil : He fainted.

  [hangs up phone] 

  Peter Virgil : Sometimes there's a shot. Now where were we?

  Michael Kent : Well, Mr. Virgil, I want you to get on the same boat with my wife and shadow her.

  Peter Virgil : Hey now, wait a minute! That means I'll have to leave all of my business!

  Michael Kent : I'll make it up to you.

  Peter Virgil : Well, I can tell you right now without batting an eyelash it'll cost you $1000 a week.

  Michael Kent : Well, that's a little steep, isn't it, old boy?

  Peter Virgil : Yes, yes it is, but, uh, I'll probably get seasick.

  Michael Kent : Well, all right, all right, I'll book your passage.

  Peter Virgil : Hm. Now, uh, move your chair a little closer, will you? There's a little confidential information I must have.

  [phone rings] 

  Peter Virgil : Excuse me.

  [picks up phone] 

  Peter Virgil : Hello?

  [we hear a gunshot on the other end of the line] 

  Peter Virgil : Well, whaddya know? He didn't even wait for me to tell him!

• Peter Virgil : Look, don't worry. The slogan of my firm is 'Never kiss a client's wife'...

  Michael Kent : Well, don't change slogans in mid-ocean.

• Michael Kent : uncle!... What are doing hiding in the closet?

• Michael Kent : I want everyone in America to smell good.

• Michael Kent : Oh, hello, darling. Your hat's on crooked.

  Elvira Kent : Well, it's supposed to be that way.

  Michael Kent : Oh, is it? Looks very cute. Very cute.

• Michael Kent : Uncle! Why are you hiding in the closet?

  Uncle Lazlo Lazlo : I - I will - I will tell you. It's awful. There is such a hurly-burly in this Rio. I was happy to find a quiet place.

• Elvira Kent : Michael, it'll be fun. Why, I sang for the Milk Fund benefit, didn't I?

  Michael Kent : Yes and for two years after that everyone was drinking their coffee black.

• Michael Kent : Let's face it, uncle. Elvira's a flirt - always has been.

• Michael Kent : Did you catch that? Flirting right up to the last minute.

  Wedding Guest : Oh, don't be silly.

  Michael Kent : I'll never be able to trust that girl.

• Michael Kent : I thought marriage would change her, but it hasn't.

  Uncle Lazlo Lazlo : Just the opposite, my boy. When a woman is married, she has to flirt twice as hard to prove she's still got it.

• Michael Kent : But if we can get the Great Western Drug Company, why there won't be a hot water botte in the nation without our name on it.

  Elvira Kent : That's a comfort.

• Michael Kent : Phone call from the West. Great chance for a merger.

  Elvira Kent : Listen, marriage is a merger too, you know; and a darned important one.

• Peter Virgil : Mr. Kent, I didn't know that you were coming down here.

  Michael Kent : After that double-talk telephone conversation, where did you expect me to be?

• Elvira Kent : [after seeing Michael's new secretary typing]  Where did she come from?

  Michael Kent : Oh, from the Acme Secretarial School, I suppose.

  Elvira Kent : Maybe by the time we get back from South America, she'll be able to type with all ten fingers.