Adventure (1945)

Thomas Mitchell: Mudgin

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• Harry Patterson : Are you washing again?

  Mudgin : Oh, hello, Harry. Kinda covets a man to scoop up some sea water that's full of the sins of the world, and put soap in it.

  Harry Patterson : You got sin on the brain.

  Mudgin : Well, it's be hard to explain to you, Harry, but a man sure feels dirty after he's been in port and done the things I done.

• Mudgin : I don't feel nothin' - all numb like inside.

  Gus : Aw, bologna! You ain't got a soul, Mudgin. Nobody's got a soul. So, how can you lose what don't exist?

• Mudgin : Look it, Harry. "Reading maketh a full man," it says.

  Harry Patterson : Full of what? Full of sap from the tree of knowledge. And what grows on trees? Dried prunes. And what do you get from sap and prunes?

• Mudgin : You never left her, she left you, God bless her. But, you're never gonna be rid of her, not Miss Emily, with her laughter and her sweet craziness! She'll tear your heart out! You stumbled onto a queen. And queen's get into men's blood. And dirty tramps from the sea can't take it!

• Mudgin : Miss Emily, Harry, I saw her. I saw her from the lookout. She was standin' right here, by the number one lifeboat. She didn't look scared or sorrowful or nothin'. Brave and beautiful, she was! Gay-like, she smiled and thrown her shoes in the ocean.