The World in His Arms (1952)

Gregory Peck: Capt. Jonathan Clark

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• Jonathan Clark : ...As for your countess Solaniva, you can tell the ol' wench she can swim to Alaska for all I care.

  Deacon Greathouse : Be sure to tell her to take the inland passage. We don't want her to scare the seals.

• Jonathan Clark : Let's see what part of Russia you come from.

  [leans in to kiss her] 

  Countess Marina Selanova : [moving away]  Not from that part.

  Jonathan Clark : Oh?

  Countess Marina Selanova : Perhaps, not so quickly. In my part of Russia it is the custom to at least ask the girl's name before you kiss her.

  Jonathan Clark : Oh... Well, you see, in America we kiss first and ask later.

• Jonathan Clark : We *shall* be married!

  Countess Marina Selanova : After the hanging? Or before?

• Eustace, Hotel Clerk : [indicating the Portugee]  Er, this gentleman is with your party?

  Jonathan Clark : This gentleman is no gentleman. He's a sea-going thief who makes his living stealing seals from the Russians. He neither bathes, shaves, nor knows the feel of good clean linen. When the moon is bright, he stays out all night and howls like a dog, then curls up and sleeps on the floor till midday. That right, Portugee?

  Portugee : He knows me pretty good.

• Jonathan Clark : Did it amuse you? Did it make you laugh to have a common American seaman ask you to marry him?

• Jonathan Clark : Did you find Joe Sweeney down at the city treasurer's office?

  Eustace, Hotel Clerk : No. Unfortunately, no, sir. Mr. Sweeney's being hanged this evening. They checked his accounts and it seems they discovered a slight case of embezzlement.

  Jonathan Clark : Oh, it's too bad. He was a great man with the bottle. There are very few of us left.