Dangerous (1935)

Franchot Tone: Don Bellows

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• Don Bellows : Restful here, isn't it?

  Joyce Heath : The whole countryside seems to have found peace.

  Don Bellows : A person could find peace too.

  Joyce Heath : No, you'll only find that in yourself and when you do, you might as well be dead.

  Don Bellows : Dead?

  Joyce Heath : Rest In Peace is for tombstones.

  Don Bellows : And for the living?

  Joyce Heath : Desire. To want something. To obtain that desire and live up to every moment of it. And then go on leaving yesterday behind. On and on. Higher and higher.

• Don Bellows : Last night I'm sorry I kissed you and said the things I did.

  Joyce Heath : How very gallant of you to say so.

  Don Bellows : No, you don't understand. You see, I'm engaged to someone.

  Joyce Heath : And you blame me?

  Don Bellows : No, it was unfair to you too. You're so very... fascinating. I think it was that, the storm and our nearness that made me lose my senses. Well, I got them back this morning and I'm asking you to forgive me and for what I'm saying now, if I hurt you.

  Joyce Heath : Hurt me?

  [laughs] 

  Joyce Heath : You delight me! You have the most amazing lack of humor than anyone I've ever known!

  [laughs] 

  Joyce Heath : I shouldn't laugh at you, should I? But I can't help it. You were so awkward that I almost laughed in your face at first. And then it made me sick to think that anyone could be stupid enough to be taken in by old tricks. I thought you might at least be amusing, but you turned out to be dull, and stupid, and so afraid. Oh, you needn't be. I won't hurt your Sunday school romance or your oh-so-nice career. Hurt me?

  [laughs] 

  Joyce Heath : Get out of here before you give me hysterics!

  [laughs uncontrollably] 

• Don Bellows : [to Joyce]  You could go on. Talent like yours doesn't die. You were a star once. You can be again.

• Don Bellows : I couldn't stand it any longer.

  Teddy : Say, listen, being an extra man at the Lynn's dinner party is like being a spare corpse at a wake.

  Gail Armitage : [to Don]  I could kiss you for getting us out of there.

  Teddy : I could too if you didn't look so much like a horse that threw me once.

  Gail Armitage : Be exact. There have been so many.

• Don Bellows : I don't intend to spend the evening escorting you in and carrying you out of nightclubs.

  Teddy : Say, listen, I've never been carried any place in my life. Thrown, yes, but carried? Never!

• Don Bellows : If you're ever gonna be anything but a jinx, you'd better start paying off because you're in debt for the rest of your life.

• Don Bellows : I guess we have everything, young lady.

  Gail Armitage : And best of all we have us.

• Don Bellows : [Embracing Joyce]  I wish I'd never seen you, never kissed you, never held you in my arms. 'Cause every time I do, I hate myself. I hate you. I could kill every emotion except the desire to hold you just once more.

• Don Bellows : Take a look at yourself. Take a good look. Drunken. Ill-kept. The only feeling that you can arouse in a man is pity.

• Mrs. Williams : When are you going to fetch her home, Mr. Don?

  Don Bellows : Whenever she wants to go. Why?

  Mrs. Williams : Oh, nothing, I was just talking. I'll be glad when she's gone, though.

  Don Bellows : Why?

  Mrs. Williams : Well, it's different for a man like you. But a woman knows an awful lot about another woman. And she's dangerous. A bad woman's got something a good woman ain't, and a good woman is.. jealous of that something. And afraid of it. I don't know what is, but... she's got it.

• Joyce Heath : You did come!

  Don Bellows : You *knew* I would.

• Joyce Heath : [In a hospital bed]  You blame me for what happened. I knew you would. That's why you didn't come.

  Don Bellows : Yes, I blame you.

  Joyce Heath : Oh, don't say that, Don. Don't. It's a jinx. I warned you. I can't help it. I can't!

  Don Bellows : You mean you can't help being rotten and selfish. You'd do anything to gain your own desire and go on leaving somebody else to pay. That's the jinx you put on people.