Algiers (1938)

Hedy Lamarr: Gaby

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Quotes 

• Gaby : It's late. I must go.

  Pepe le Moko : Suppose you don't come tomorrow?

  Gaby : Suppose I don't? Can't you ever get away from the Casbah?

  Pepe le Moko : Why do you ask?

  Gaby : Can't you?

  Pepe le Moko : No. I'm caught here, like a bear in a hole. Dogs barking, hunters all around, no way out of it. Do you like that? Maybe it's lucky for you.

  Gaby : I don't like it. And it's not lucky.

  Pepe le Moko : You're right. If you don't come back, I might do anything. I might go down to your hotel to get you.

  Gaby : Tomorrow, Pepe.

  Pepe le Moko : Tomorrow?

  Gaby : I never break a promise.

• Pepe le Moko : What did you do before?

  Gaby : Before what?

  Pepe le Moko : Before... the jewels.

  Gaby : I wanted them.

• Gaby : If I can't see Paris when I open my eyes in the morning, I want to go right back to sleep.

• Andre Giraux : Where are you going?

  Gaby : A walk.

  Andre Giraux : But where?

  Gaby : On the Champs-Élysées.

  Andre Giraux : May I ask you to give me a sensible answer.

  Gaby : Then ask a sensible question. Where could I go? I don't know anyone in Algiers. I just walk straight ahead.

  Andre Giraux : Straight ahead? And where does that take you?

  Gaby : I'll know when I get there.

• Pepe le Moko : So, you wanted to take another look at the strange, wild animal?

  Gaby : Strange - but, not so very wild.

  Pepe le Moko : How do you like my cage?

  Gaby : I don't know - yet.

• Pepe le Moko : [admiring Gaby's diamond bracelet]  This is something.

  Gaby : Isn't it. And it hardly weighs anything. Look.

  Pepe le Moko : At least 20,000 francs, hmm?

  Gaby : Add a zero.

  Pepe le Moko : Oh, I mean, what I would get for it.

  [Gaby laughs] 

  Pepe le Moko : Here, put it on again.

  Gaby : You put it on.

• Pepe le Moko : What are you laughing at?

  Gaby : Nothing.

  Pepe le Moko : Too bad.

  Gaby : Too bad?

  Pepe le Moko : Too bad I don't know you better.

  Gaby : Why?

  Pepe le Moko : Because, I would slap your face. When people laugh around me, I like to know why.

• Gaby : I'll come back.

  Pepe le Moko : When?

  Gaby : As soon as I can.

  Pepe le Moko : When?

  Gaby : Tomorrow.

  Pepe le Moko : How can I be sure?

  Gaby : I never break a promise.

• Pepe le Moko : Do you know what you are to me? Paris. That's you. Paris. With you, I escape. Follow me? The whole town. A Spring morning in Paris. You're lovely. You're marvelous. And you know what you remind me of? The subway. Close your eyes. Listen. Can you hear it?

  Gaby : That's my heart beating.

  Pepe le Moko : Does it go like a subway train?

  Gaby : Faster.

  Pepe le Moko : You're all silk and you jingle when you walk and with all that chichi you make me think of the subway. Isn't that funny?

• Andre Giraux : You're going to be my wife!

  Gaby : You don't make it a very pleasant propect.

• Andre Giraux : I won't allow you to behave like this.

  Gaby : I'm glad you told me.

  Andre Giraux : What do you mean?

  Gaby : We've got to be honest. Why do you think I'm marrying you? Look at yourself and then look at me.

• Gaby : Your hotel bores me. The Head Waiter looks like an undertaker. And every time I step into this apartment, it looks more like a funeral parlor. Goodbye, darling.

  Andre Giraux : I know where you're going.

  Gaby : Huh?

  Andre Giraux : You're going to the Casbah!

• Gaby : That's my trouble. I'm such a fool. I go dreaming about the wrong things.

• Andre Giraux : I don't like natives.

  Gaby : Then, we'll go with Maxime. You'll protect us. Won't you Maxime?

  Max : Oh! I'm at my best with natives.

• Gaby : Let me go.

  Pepe le Moko : Why should I?

  Gaby : Because I asked you.

  Pepe le Moko : Say please.

  Gaby : You're rude.

  Pepe le Moko : Am I?