Captain January (1936)
Sara Haden: Agatha Morgan
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Quotes
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Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Who is that child?
Mary : She's the adopted daughter of Captain January, the lighthouse keeper. Isn't she a pretty little thing?
Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Does she go to school?
Mary : Well, no. You see, the former truant officer wasn't very strict.
Mrs. Agatha Mogan : That's why she's the former truant officer. You schoolteachers will find me strict enough.
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Mrs. Agatha Mogan : You should be taken home and spanked! What kind of man is this Captain January to allow you to run around?
Helen : Cap's the finest man in the whole world! See that lighthouse down there? Well, Cap owns it... He saved a million ships in his day.
Mrs. Agatha Mogan : You go right home and tell him I'm coming to have a talk with him.
Helen : Yes, ma'am. I'll bet SHE can't spit a curve in the wind.
Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Don't be impudent!
Helen : I didn't mean to be! Cap always tells me to be polite to old ladies.
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Mrs. Agatha Mogan : There is a compulsory education law in this state, and this child is old enough.
Helen : How can she know how old I am? We don't even know ourselves.
Mrs. Agatha Mogan : From what I've observed, this child is being brought up completely without control. She's rude and undisciplined, like a little heathen. Look at the clothes she wears. Not even a dress!
Capt. January : What business is that of yours? Star is mine!
Mrs. Agatha Mogan : You forget that Star is adopted, Captain January. It's well within the power of the school authorities to have her taken away from you and placed in an institution.
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Capt. Nazro : Star can read writing and write reading better than any six-year-old on this coast.
Capt. January : Any six-year-old? Why, there ain't no seven- or eight-year-old that knows as much as Star. I've been learning her from the two best books there is, The Bible and Bowditch.
Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Bowditch? A book on navigation? Fine reading for a child of six!
Capt. Nazro : Any objections to The Bible?
Capt. January : There ain't no better reading in the world than The Bible and Bowditch. They both learn you to steer a straight course.
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Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Disreputable sailors, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves, teaching a child to behave this way!
Helen : Don't be mad at them. They always have fun with me like this. Did you know that Captain Joe Ross can spit 15 feet in a 20-mile gale?
[Captain Joe Ross smiles at Mrs. Morgan]
Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Indeed!
Helen : And the skipper, the one with the accordion, once he killed three men with a table knife!
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Mrs. Agatha Mogan : There seems to be some doubt about the child's age. You say she has the learning of a child of eight. Very well, we'll call her eight.
Helen : Maybe I'm only six.
Capt. January : I'll stand on eight.
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Deputy Sheriff : I've got an order here to produce that child before Judge Thompson.
Capt. January : All right, when do you want her?
Deputy Sheriff : Tomorrow afternoon at three.
Capt. January : All right, we'll be there.
Mrs. Agatha Mogan : You take that child right now! Don't you understand he's trying to sneak her out of the jurisdiction of the court?
Capt. Nazro : He's trying to do no such thing!
Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Then why is he on this boat? Officer, you're responsible for the custody of the child!
Deputy Sheriff : Maybe you're right. I can't take any chances.
Helen : Oh, Cap, don't let them take me away!