To Have and Have Not (1944)
Humphrey Bogart: Harry 'Steve' Morgan
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Quotes
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Steve : I got to get nursie out of here or she never will come to.
[picks up Mme de Bursac who passed out from chloroform, Slim follows]
Slim : What are you trying to do, guess her weight?
Steve : She's heftier than you think.
[lays her down on a bed]
Steve : Better loosen her clothes.
Slim : You've been doing all right.
[Steve starts to loosen]
Slim : Eh, maybe you'd better look after her husband.
Steve : He's not going to run out on me.
Slim : Neither is she.
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Capt. M. Renard : By the way, what are your sympathies?
Steve : Minding my own business.
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Steve : You're both going to take a beating 'til one of you uses that phone. That means one of you will take a beating for nothing.
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Eddie : [Steering the boat] What's the matter? Why are you lookin' at me like that fer? What are you laughin' at?
Steve : Just a joke that neither one of us knows the answer to.
Eddie : What joke?
Steve : Whether you're gonna hold together or not.
Eddie : [His feelings hurt] Don't say that, Harry! I'm a good man! You know I am!
Steve : Yeah, I know you are, but you're goin' all over the ocean. Stay on your course.
Eddie : Why do you always... Hey, could I have just one? I don't want to get the shakes.
Steve : Make it short! I want you rum brave, not useless.
Eddie : [Anxious to get below decks to have his drink] Thanks, Harry!
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Steve : Anybody got a match?
Slim : Change your mind?
Steve : No money, those guys cleaned me out.
Slim : I forgot too - maybe I can do something, its been a long day and I'm thirsty.
[surveys club patrons]
Steve : Picked him out yet?
Slim : You don't mind do you?
Steve : You're thirsty, go ahead. If I get tired of waiting, I'll be back at that hotel.
Slim : All right
[starts moving through tables]
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[first lines]
Title Card : Martinique, in the summer of 1940, shortly after the fall of France.
Title Card : Forte de France
Steve : Morning.
Officer at port : Good Morning, Captain Morgan. What can I do for you today?
Steve : Same thing as yesterday.
Officer at port : You and your client wish to make a temporary exit from the port?
Steve : *That* is right.
Officer at port : Name?
Steve : Ha - Harry Morgan.
Officer at port : Nationality?
Steve : Eskimo.
Officer at port : What?
Steve : American.
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Steve : [to the Bursacs] Get down on the deck flat and stay there!
Paul de Bursac : [Apprehensively] But I don't know what good it'll be to try to resist. We will be killed!
Steve : [Angrily] Shut up, both of you! Get down on that deck flat! You save France - I want to save my boat!
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Steve : You didn't bring him here?
Gerard aka Frenchy : In the cellar.
Steve : Why didn't you put him on the center table in a goldfish bowl and be done with it?
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Mme. Hellene de Bursac : I'm just having a hard time trying to say something.
Steve : Go ahead, say it. I'm not gonna bite you.
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Steve : [to a grateful Marcel Dalio] No kissin', Frenchy!
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Slim : You're sore, aren't you?
Steve : Why should I be?
Slim : I didn't behave very well, did I?
Steve : You did all right. You got the bottle, didn't you?
Slim : You're sore, aren't you?
Steve : Now, look, get this straight, I don't care...
Slim : I know. I know. You don't give a whoop what I do. But when I do it, you get sore.
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Steve : Come on.
Slim : What are you talking about? Say, mister, what's got into you?
[Steve escorts her to a room, closes and locks the door]
Slim : What do you think you're gonna do?
Steve : I'm gonna get that wallet, Slim.
Slim : I'd rather you wouldn't call me Slim. I'm a little too skinny to take it kindly.
Steve : Quit the baby talk. Which is it?
Slim : You know, Steve, I wouldn't put it past you.
[pulls out Johnson's wallet from underneath her top]
Slim : I didn't know you were a hotel detective.
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Beauclere - Gaullist : Mr. Morgan, I thought all Americans were friendly to our side.
Steve : Well, that's right, they are. But, you see, there's a rumor going around that they put fellas on Devil's Island for doing what you're doing. I'm not that friendly to anybody.
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Steve : Go ahead. Slap me.
Capt. M. Renard : Come, come, Capitaine. This is not a brawl. We merely wish to get to the bottom of this affair.
Steve : You'll never do it by slapping people around. That's bad luck.
Capt. M. Renard : Well, we shall see.
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Steve : Sorry. Now, look, boys, we could stay at this all night and the answer would still be the same. I don't care who runs France or Martinique or who wants to run it. You'll have to get somebody else.
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Slim : The story of my life. Where do you want me to begin?
Steve : I got a pretty fair idea already.
Slim : Who told you?
Steve : You did. That slap in the face you took.
Slim : What about it?
Steve : You hardly blinked an eye. It takes a lot of practice to do that. Yeah, I know a lot about you, Slim.
Slim : The next time I get slapped I better do something about it.
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Beauclere - Gaullist : One thing, Mr. Morgan. Last night you very definitely refused to have anything to do with us. Why have you changed your mind?
Steve : I need the money now. Last night I didn't.
Beauclere - Gaullist : If you knew what this means to us.
Steve : I don't want to know.
Beauclere - Gaullist : I'm glad you're on our side.
Steve : I'm not. I'm getting paid.
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Steve : Do you know how to handle one of these?
Eddie : Of course, I know how to handle one! Everybody knows how to handle a gun. All you do is work the lever and pull the trigger. You know I know that! Sometimes you ask such foolish questions. Do I know how to handle a gun? Of course, I know how to handle - what I got to work a gun fer?
Steve : I just wondered if you could.
Eddie : Well, you know I can! Harry, sometimes you act stupid. Just plain stupid! Sometimes I think you don't pay no attention to nothin' I say. Is it gonna be that bad, Harry?
Steve : I don't know yet. It all depends on how lucky we are.
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Mme. Hellene de Bursac : Please help me get him on the seat.
Steve : Leave him where he is. I don't want him bleedin' all over my cushion.
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Steve : Come on aboard. Hey, wait a minute. He didn't say anything about a woman.
Paul de Bursac : Permit me. This is my wife, Madame de Bursac.
Steve : How do you do?
[tips his hat]
Steve : What do you want to bring a... Well, it's your funeral. All right, let's get out of here.
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Paul de Bursac : Mr. Morgan, just who are you?
Steve : I own this boat. Beauclere's paying me to get you people back to Martinique.
Paul de Bursac : You're not one of us. You're not on our side.
Steve : No.
Paul de Bursac : I don't understand.
Steve : I don't understand what kind of a war you guys are fighting - lugging your wives with you. Don't you get enough of them at home?
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Mme. Hellene de Bursac : I don't think I'll ever be angry again with anything you say.
Steve : Another screwy dame. Now, how can you...
Slim : [walks in after having listened to their conversation] Good morning. I hate to break this up, but I've brought some breakfast.
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Steve : Don't get tough with Slim. She's apt to slap you back.
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Steve : I got a hunch the whole thing's gonna blow up, it's too quiet.
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Gerard aka Frenchy : Why are you doing this, Harry?
Steve : Well, I don't know. Maybe because I like you, maybe because I don't like them.