Mandalay (1934)
Lyle Talbot: Dr. Gregory Burton
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Quotes
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Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : [as they're on the riverboat steamer] Where are you going?
Dr. Gregory Burton : Mandalay. Or rather, 50 miles inland - the black fever country.
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : [taken aback] What?
Dr. Gregory Burton : Yes. There's an epidemic there.
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : Oh, how awful. Must you?
Dr. Gregory Burton : I'm a doctor.
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : Does a doctor's degree carry with it compulsory suicide? It is suicide, you know.
Dr. Gregory Burton : You wouldn't understand.
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : I rather think I do.
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Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : Gregory, we arrive at Mandalay tomorrow. You're going up to the black fever country. Take me with you.
Dr. Gregory Burton : Oh, I can't do that. Don't you realize there isn't one chance in a hundred of coming out of it alive?
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : Listen: we are two wrecked people. We *need* one another.
Dr. Gregory Burton : You mean... you mean, if we come through, perhaps together we can make something of ourselves?
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : Isn't that our only hope?
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Dr. Gregory Burton : It's getting hotter every minute, isn't it. How much longer have you got to stay on this stifling boat? Perhaps that's not my business.
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : It's no secret. I'm going to Mandalay.
Dr. Gregory Burton : Nothing very attractive about that place.
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : Nothing but the cool, green hills. It's a place to rest.
Dr. Gregory Burton : Cool, green hills. You're lucky.
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Dr. Gregory Burton : Why didn't you tell the truth?
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : I couldn't bear to have all those people know about me.
Dr. Gregory Burton : Know what?
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : I've been meaning to tell you. Have you ever heard of Spot White? Have you ever heard of Nick's Place in Rangoon? If you'd ever been there, you'd have seen me.
Dr. Gregory Burton : You?
Marjorie Lang [aka Tanya Borodoff] : Do you want to know the rest or is that enough?
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Dr. Gregory Burton : I'm not afraid of ghost. I'm not anything - if I have you.