Horror Express (1972)

Peter Cushing: Doctor Wells

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• Dr. Wells : [entering Saxon and Mirov's compartment with a shotgun]  Thought this might come in handy.

  Inspector Mirov : [sarcastic]  Oh, good idea. Two of you together - that's fine. But what if one of you is the monster?

  Dr. Wells : Monster? We're British, you know!

• Dr. Wells : Miss Jones, I shall need your assistance.

  Miss Jones : [eyeing Wells' dinner companion]  Yes, well at your age I'm not surprised.

  Dr. Wells : With an autopsy!

  Miss Jones : Oh, well that's different.

• Captain Kazan : Now, anything, anything that moves near that door, kill it!

  Dr. Wells : But what if the monk is innocent?

  Captain Kazan : Ahhh, we got *lots* of innocent monks!

• [after Wells buys his way onto a full train] 

  Dr. Wells : It's called "squeeze" in China. The Americans call it knowhow.

  Professor Saxton : And in Britain, we call it bribery and corruption.

• Dr. Wells : What are you going to astound the scientific world with this time?

  Professor Saxton : You'll read about it in the Society's annual report. A remarkable fossil.

  Dr. Wells : Fossil? But you've got something live in there, I heard it.

  Professor Saxton : You're mistaken!

  Dr. Wells : You won't need to feed it then.

  Professor Saxton : The occupant hasn't eaten in two million years.

  Dr. Wells : That's one way to economize on food bills.

• [Mirov has opened the crate and found the body of the missing baggage man inside it] 

  Dr. Wells : Are you telling me that an ape that lived two million years ago got out of that crate, killed the baggage man and put him in there, then locked everything up neat and tidy, and got away?

  Professor Saxton : Yes, I am! It's alive, it must be!

• Inspector Mirov : Is it true you're a doctor?

  Dr. Wells : Ask me when I've finished my dinner.

• Dr. Wells : Miss Jones, allow me to introduce Professor Alexander Saxton. He dabbles in fossils and bones.

  Miss Jones : Glad to meet you, Professor.

  Professor Saxton : How do you do?

  Dr. Wells : Miss Jones has been assisting me. Bacteriology, excellent technician.

  Miss Jones : [laughs]  For a woman, he means.