That Wonderful Urge (1948)

Tyrone Power: Thomas Jefferson Tyler

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• Sara Farley : Oh, I'll - I'll call the police.

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Good! Tell them I'm not your husband. Don't let me go through life with that blot on my record.

• Thomas Jefferson Tyler : You know it could be worse. Suppose we were really married?

  Sara Farley : Uh-uh. My imagination doesn't stretch that far.

• Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Mrs. Whitson, this seems like a wonderful party. I always have wanted to mingle with the filthy rich. But you know, I can't afford one of those monkey suits, and Sara hasn't bought my trousseau yet.

• Sara Farley : Don't tell me beneath that rude exterior lurks the soul of a gentleman?

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : That's not all that lurks there.

• Sara Farley : Don't print that article.

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : What?

  Sara Farley : It'll only make you look foolish.

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Me?

  Sara Farley : In the first place, it simply isn't good journalism. I know, Tom. I'm the expert. They started in on me when I was in kindergarten. When I won a prize for deportment, there wasn't a line about it, but it was front page news when I tried to scratch the eyes out of that little beast of a Vandermeer girl. The great reading public isn't interested in normal human beings - they want freaks served up with all the trimmings.

• Sara Farley : Why are you looking at me like that Tom, like you 'd never seen me before?

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's the whiskey, or the crack on the head I took, or maybe it's just you.

  Sara Farley : [There's a knock at the door]  I guess we're being rescued.

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : I'm afraid we are.

• Sara Farley : Darling, you know, you look feverish. I really think you shouldn't stay.

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Oh, me? I feel like a million dollars... a million do.. heh, heh, heh. That's pretty good, huh? The old bean's working fine.

• Thomas Jefferson Tyler : You know, Sara, we'll have to have her come and live with us. She's a wonderful gal. Why, she chews tobacco just like dad, only better. She can drown a beetle at 20 paces. Oh, she's - you'll love her.

• Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Well, Uncle Porter - he's my half-wit uncle with the hives. Uncle Porter was heatin' up the mash and starting in to sweat out about a 40 gallon of the prettiest mountain dew that ever invited snakes to a picnic.

• Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Why'd you have to slug me.

  Sara Farley : I didn't. You slugged yourself on that tree.

• Sara Farley : Is it true that you've given up your newspaper work.

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Yes, dear - I'm going in for pigeon hunting.

• Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Ma was quite a shot when she was sober.

• Attorney Ketchell : Who're we suing this morning?

  Findlay : Sara Farley.

  Attorney Ketchell : Why? Didn't she give him his allowance.

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Oh, ho, very funny.

• Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Oh, a fine wife you are. Still a bride and already you're out with another man.

• Mrs. Whitson : Has your mother passed on, Mr. Tyler?

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Oh, no, no, no. She's still up there in the cabin on the mountain. 'The old Widdy of Mount Baldy,' they call her.

• Thomas Jefferson Tyler : [Tossing peanuts into the air to catch in his mouth]  You know, it's funny. Ma always use to say, 'Marry a rich girl.' Feather your nest, she said. It can't hurt. She was right. Guess she must still be watchin' over me.

• Thomas Jefferson Tyler : I live here. I'm Mr. Farley, or you're Mrs. Tyler - remember.

• Duffy - Chronicle Editor : How does this strike you.

  Attorney Ketchell : I don't know. Why don't you sue for divorce and get a fat settlement?

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Because I'm not married to her.

• Marriage License Clerk : I can't be a party to a conspiracy to commit bigamy. You got any proof that you're not married to Sara Farley.

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : Well, you know no one can prove that they're not married Nobody issues certificates of non-marriage.

• Duffy - Chronicle Editor : Now she'll get what's coming to her.

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : What's coming to HER? Maybe you don't know what's happening. This morning an old lady came up to me on the street and hit me one the head with an umbrella.

  Duffy - Chronicle Editor , Thomas Jefferson Tyler : What for?

  Thomas Jefferson Tyler : She said she was doing it in the name of womanhood.

• Thomas Jefferson Tyler : [On the witness stand, to Sara's attorney]  And I resent your attempts to make me appear an idiot. Your honor, do I have to stand for this?

  Judge Parker : Uh, the matter of who is or who is not an idiot has not been brought into this action. The witness will answer the questions.