The Beast Must Die (1952)

Narciso Ibáñez Menta: Felix Lane

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• Felix Lane : If I had done it, I wouldn't regret it. Rafferty really was a beast.

• Felix Lane : A drop of sherry, General?

  General Dixon : Oh, no, no. No alcohol before dinner. Perhaps a little whiskey.

• General Dixon : She kept asking me what would make her beautiful. I couldn't take anymore, so I told her, "Shave, Madam!"

  Felix Lane : [laughs]  General, you can't deny that wasn't very kind.

  General Dixon : That's why I wasn't promoted. She was the Prime Minister's wife.

• Felix Lane : It's easy to condemn others. But not so easy to bear that memory, to hide the anguish, to pretend all the time. It's not easy. It's easier to forget guilt.

• Felix Lane : Such a big car got stuck?

  Mujer de la cabaña : It must have sunk deep and water got into the engine.

  Felix Lane : When women drive, things happen.

• Linda Lawson : Did I keep you waiting?

  Felix Lane : Not at all. I arrived one hour early.

  Linda Lawson : What?

  Felix Lane : Of course. One waits fifteen minutes for an ordinary woman, thirty for a pretty woman, one hour for a beautiful woman, for you, no less than two hours.

• Felix Lane : Life no longer has a purpose for me. I was clinging to the hope of finding that murdering beast. I did all I could to find him - for nothing. Why carry on living?

  General Dixon : I understand your pain, Frank. But not your weakness.

• Linda Lawson : Felix Lane is too famous to waste his time on a simple actress.

  Felix Lane : Yet it's you - people are staring at.

  Linda Lawson : That's just curiosity. You are famous.

  Felix Lane : A fame I'm not flattered by - based on murders that I didn't commit.

  Linda Lawson : You'd have preferred real ones?

  Felix Lane : Perhaps. I'd like to know how it feels to have killed someone.

• Linda Lawson : I don't like beach resorts. Too many people.

  Felix Lane : The place I have in mind isn't a resort. It's a very quiet place, with amazing cliffs and a sea so beautiful that it's not a sea, it's like your eyes.

  Linda Lawson : Why don't you write poetry?

  Felix Lane : That depends on you.

  Linda Lawson : Don't pretend that you'd write verses just for me.

  Felix Lane : I'm not easily inspired, only by exceptional beauty.

• Felix Lane : Ever since I saw your photograph, I became obsessed about meeting you.

  Linda Lawson : I don't believe you could be so vulgar as to fall for an actress in a photograph.

• Linda Lawson : Let's stop pretending. When will you declare your feelings?

  Felix Lane : I - to tell you the truth, I was waiting for the coffee.

• Linda Lawson : [slapped by Felix]  You brute! Let me go! Let me go! You beast! You beast! Beast!

  [kiss] 

  Linda Lawson : Don't feel badly of me.

  Felix Lane : I'm the one who should apologize.

  Linda Lawson : You must think I'm a floozy, but I'm not. I swear I'm not! I drank too much. Sometimes I have to numb myself.

• Jorge Rattery : Linda has brought us a cat. Angora or Persian?

  Felix Lane : Linda calls me Cat because of Felix.

  Jorge Rattery : That's even better. Felix the Cat!

  Felix Lane : I imagine they'd call you Rat. Rattery. Rat.

• Jorge Rattery : So you write novels.

  Felix Lane : That's correct. Detective novels.

  Jorge Rattery : Ah, crime stories. That reassures me. I thought Linda was going to bring me a real writer.

• Jorge Rattery : Coward. Even with the ladies.

  Felix Lane : What's up with Ronnie?

  Jorge Rattery : Rhoda tried to kiss him and it scared the brat. He'll never be a man.

• Felix Lane : One of these days, we'll go sailing. I'll teach you the language of the wind. How to find the path between the waves. I'll make you a friend of the sea.

  Ronnie Hershey : Can you teach me all that?

  Felix Lane : I taught it to a boy I loved very much.

  Ronnie Hershey : Loved? And where is he now?

  Felix Lane : He died - because of a beast.

• Felix Lane : May I help you?

  Jorge Rattery : Go to hell!

• Felix's Editor : My dear Felix, I don't believe you grew a beard just to hide Frank Carter.

  Felix Lane : Why do you say that?

  Felix's Editor : You've impressed Linda.

  Felix Lane : What is your point?

  Felix's Editor : In one of Huxley's novels, he mentions how women are excited by beards.

• Felix Lane : [first entry in his diary]  I am going to kill a man. I don't know his name. I don't know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like, but I will find him and I will kill him.