The Red Menace (1949)

Hanna Axmann-Rezzori: Nina Petrovka

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• [first lines] 

  Nina Petrovka : No... Don't let them... I'm afraid.

  Bill Jones : Nina, stop it. It's me, Bill! They can't get us now.

  Nina Petrovka : They're gonna kill us!

  Bill Jones : Nina... Get a hold of yourself. Snap out of it.

  Nina Petrovka : That same dream. Those frightening, sadistic faiths chasing me. Turning guns at me.

  Bill Jones : It's nothing to worry about. They can't get us out here.

  Nina Petrovka : You don't really believe that. You know we can't get away.

  Bill Jones : They haven't caught us yet, have they?

  Nina Petrovka : No, but... they are real! Oh please Bill, let me get myself up. It isn't you they're after, want me, why don't you...

  Bill Jones : This is why.

  [kisses her on the cheek] 

  Nina Petrovka : Well, we'll have to stop for the next gas station.

  Bill Jones : Bill... I hate to stop for anything.

  Nina Petrovka : Well, we can't run without gas.

• Nina Petrovka : Just suppose I would ask you what communism is.

  Bill Jones : Well... It's the idea of everybody sharing things equally, isn't it?

  Nina Petrovka : [chuckles]  That's the average American opinion. You better get to my classes and get your eyes open.

  Bill Jones : I thought you were just a coldhearted school teacher... but you have flesh and blood.

• Bill Jones : Is your father still there, Nina?

  Nina Petrovka : He was shot by the communists.

  Bill Jones : Oh, I'm so sorry Nina.

• Nina Petrovka : Why are you stopping?

  Bill Jones : I've been thinking, Nina. This is the United States, not the police state!