Your Past Is Showing (1957)

Kenneth Griffith: Porter

Quotes 

• Porter : Well, you have got yourself into a proper pickle, haven't you Mr. M?

• Sonny MacGregor : I couldn't. But, someone else - might.

  Porter : Who?

  Sonny MacGregor : Anyone. Anyone of a thousand characters that I can create and then destroy - just like that.

  Porter : What are you going on about, Mr. M?

  Sonny MacGregor : Murder, Porter. Murder. Murder by a person or persons unknown. By someone who doesn't even exist. A will o' the wisp. Murder by a figment of my imagination.

• Sonny MacGregor : I can smile - and murder while I smile.

  Porter : Oh, dear.

  Sonny MacGregor : I will drown more sailors than mermaids...

  Porter : It's the Old Vic trouble, isn't it, sir?

  Sonny MacGregor : I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, deceive more slyly than Ulysses could, and like a Sinon - take another Troy!

• Porter : Mr. M, the tele's one thing, but, real life's quite another. You'd only go and overdo it.

  Sonny MacGregor : Why should I?

  Porter : Because you always do. Frankly, you always overact most dreadfully.

• Sonny MacGregor : A bomb. Yes, a bomb will do it. You see, a bomb will blow he and his records and the barge to kingdom come - and, yet, it wouldn't hurt anyone else. Yes! But where do we get a bomb from?

  Porter : Well, if you only want a little one, I suppose you'd have to go to Ireland for that.