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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) More at IMDbPro »

Count Saknussem: I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

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Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Are we to be abducted every day in Iceland?

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Carla Göteborg: Whom were you taking besides this young man?
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: The big Icelander.
Carla Göteborg: Then I'll be very useful. He doesn't understand a word of English.

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Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: You won't find anything edible in there.
Alec McKuen: Why not? The Chinese eat eggs over 400 years old.

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Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] The woman in room number 29, she said she wants to talk to you.
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Tell him to stop jabbering and go shopping.
Alec McKuen: What about lamps.
Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] The woman in room number 29, she said...
Alec McKuen: Ah, lamps... lamps. What about... ah... picks?

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Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Thank you, Scartaris.

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Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] There is a tunnel on this side.
Carla Göteborg: He says there's a tunnel on the other side.
Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] And they slant downhill, and we can walk them.
Carla Göteborg: Slanting downhill, but walkable.

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Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] O, madam, will you all come down here where the boy fell. It is so wonderfully beautiful down there.
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: What's happened now? What's he saying?
Carla Göteborg: He said we should go back to where Alec fell.

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Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] He is guilty.

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Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] Excuse me, madam, can you tell me, where do we go now, what do we do now?

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Carla Göteborg: [in Icelandic] Hans, let him go.

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Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] Madam, the tunnel lies straight upwards, but there is a big rock in the way and sadly we can't move it. Only a landslide could move it.

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Hans Belker: [in Icelandic, to his duck] My Gotrun, have you been lonely?

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Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Young man with the gold tooth, I'll give you more gold if you guide us to Reykjavik.
Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] Ahh, yes, yes, yes, Reykjavik.
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: You... take us... to Reykjavik.

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[in front of a church in Edinburgh after a service]
Dean: Miss Jenny! I saw you turn pale when the Domini spoke of those in peril at the far ends of the earth.
Jenny: Far ends of the earth; at least that would be somewhere.

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Alec McKuen: [after discovering Professor Göteborg dead in his hotel room] Why didn't they tell us at the desk?
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Hotels rarely advertise the fact that there are corpses lying around.

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Carla Göteborg: Sir Oliver, you are not going to listen to a murderer?
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Never interrupt a murderer, madam.

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Carla Göteborg: Someone is walking up there. I heard footsteps, human footsteps.
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Since the beginning of time all women have heard footsteps up there.

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