A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
Victor Moore: Horace Willoughby
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Quotes
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Horace Willoughby : Aren't you interested in the Cleopatra Arms, Mr. Phillips?
Eric Phillips : Well, yes of course I'm interested, I mean you see Mr. Danilo, he makes all my investments.
Horace Willoughby : Well the Cleopatra Arms is hardly an investment in stone, wood and plumbing, Mr. Phillips. To 53 people, it spells home.
Eric Phillips : Oh, that's fine.
Horace Willoughby : Name any other building in Morningside Heights that has a marquee to protect its tenants in bad weather.
Eric Phillips : I'm sure I couldn't.
Horace Willoughby : I've turned down a great many people who wanted to buy the house, Mr. Phillips. But when you came along, I felt that turning it over to an artist, someone with a soul, that'd be different.
Eric Phillips : But I really don't own the Cleopatra Arms. Well that is, I do, but it's just something with which I would never concern myself.
Horace Willoughby : But, Mr. Phillips, that's absentee ownership. Now Mr. Danilo, well, he's a businessman. I never would have sold him my Cleopatra Arms.
Eric Phillips : Well then buy it back, I really don't care.
Horace Willoughby : Oh, I can see that. To you, it's just another investment. I suppose if she don't pay enough, you'll tear her down, eh?
Eric Phillips : She? Her? Oh, the building.
Horace Willoughby : Yes, the building.
[he declaims]
Horace Willoughby : Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky.
[All looking up; the butler salutes]
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Horace Willoughby : You have a screw loose.
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Horace Willoughby : I knew you were in love with him before you did.
