Saboteur (1942)

Robert Cummings: Barry Kane

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• Mac, Truck Driver : I've been thinkin' for long time I'm gonna get out of this truckin' game.

  Barry Kane : Why don't you?

  Mac, Truck Driver : One of my neighbors told my wife it's stylish to eat three meals a day.

• Patricia "Pat" Martin : [kissing on the dance floor]  I'm afraid we're not behaving very well.

  Barry Kane : What's the difference, we weren't invited anyway.

  [another long kiss] 

• Barry Kane : You can't get away with this, Tobin! Even if I don't stop you, there will be others that will. A man like you can't last in a country like this.

  Charles Tobin : Very pretty speech - youthful, passionate, idealistic. You see I've already sent for the police.

  Barry Kane : You can't bluff me. You're hooked and you know it.

  Charles Tobin : Must I remind you that *you* are the fugitive from justice and not I. I'm a promient citizen, widely respected. You are an obscure young workman, wanted for the committing of an extremely unpopular crime. Now which of us do you think the police will believe?

• [to Patricia as they dance at a party full of Nazi sympathizers] 

  Barry Kane : Right now, they're probably haggling over the price for us with Murder, Incorporated.

• Patricia "Pat" Martin : Barry, why couldn't I have met you a hundred years ago? On a beach somewhere?

  Barry Kane : Bathing suits looked awfully funny a hundred years ago. I bet you'd look beautiful though.

• Charles Tobin : You seem to have a soft spot for that young lady. You can't afford to make yourself that vulnerable, not when you're out - trying to save your country.

  Barry Kane : Why is it that you sneer every time you refer to this country? You've done pretty well here. I don't get it.

• Barry Kane : Pat, this moment belongs to me. No matter what happens, they can never take it away from me.

  [another dancer cuts in and dances off with Pat] 

• Barry Kane : A man named Fry drops a wallet in California and we wind up here, you and me. That's the only good part. I'm with you.

  Patricia "Pat" Martin : I wish it was somewhere else - the North Pole - I wouldn't care.

  Barry Kane : We might wind up there too, chasing Fry over an old glacier.

  Patricia "Pat" Martin : Fry. He seems so small now. I'd forgotten about him.

• Barry Kane : Better let the snakes get some sleep. They have to look good tomorrow.

• Barry Kane : [after recognizing Mr. Martin is blind]  You live here alone, do you, sir?

  Phillip Martin : Yes. Except I really don't think of it in that way. You see, sounds are my lights and my colors. My music, for example. I compose a little. And there's nobody to tell me that the results are anything but brilliant, so I live in a comfortable glow of self-appreciation.

• Barry Kane : I don't have any car. You might say I'm - traveling by thumb.

  Phillip Martin : By thumb?

  Barry Kane : Yeah, I'm a hitchhiker.

  Phillip Martin : Oh, I see. I've always thought that that was the best way to learn about this country and the surest test of the American heart.

• Barry Kane : I used to play the triangle in our high school band. Of course, that was a long time ago.

  Phillip Martin : Oh, that's too bad. It's unfortunate when you let yourself get out of practice on the triangle. The piano is a boon to me. The piano can't know that you're blind, so it doesn't embarrass you by trying to make things easier for you. It does you the compliment to trust you.

• Mr. Freeman : Sometimes I wish my younger child had been a girl. In fact, my wife and I argue over a little idiosyncrasy I have. I don't want his hair cut short until he's much older. Do you think it'd be bad for him?

  Barry Kane : I don't know, it might be.

  Mr. Freeman : When I was a child, I had long golden curls. People used to stop to admire me. Things are different nowadays. A haircut might save him a lot of grief.

• Barry Kane : That just goes to show you what a little blonde can do to hold up national defense.

• Barry Kane : Tough job, driving a truck.

  Mac, Truck Driver : Got any other hot news tonight?

  Barry Kane : I guess I never realized how tough it was before.

  Mac, Truck Driver : The tough part, you can take that. It's the monotony that gets ya.

• Barry Kane : Just because he's got a big ranch and a fancy pool and a lovely house doesn't mean he's a nice guy.

• Barry Kane : Drop me in the middle of town when we get there.

  Mac, Truck Driver : Listen, the minute you get to Springville, you're in the middle of the town. And the next minute, the place is a memory. Whole town isn't a city block long.

• Barry Kane : There's only one thing I want to warn you about: snakes. There are a lot of them out here. Of course, there's only five or six poisonous kinds; but, there are a lot of long, squirmy, slippery, slimy ones.

• Patricia "Pat" Martin : They're so smart. That's what frightens me.

  Barry Kane : Yeah, they're smart, that's because they're ruthless. It's easy to win when you forget about the rules.

• Barry Kane : You really hate all people. Let me tell you something. The last four or five days I've learned a lot. I've met guys like you, and I've met others - people that are helpful and eager to do the right thing; people that get a kick out of helping each other fight the bad guys. Love and hate. The world's choosing up sides. I know who I'm with! There are a lot of people on my side. Millions of us in every country. And we're not soft; we're plenty strong. And we'll fight standing up on our two feet, and we'll win. Remember that, Mr Tobin. We'll win, no matter what you guys do. We'll win if it takes from now until the cows come home!

• Bones - Circus Troupe : Ah, stowaways. In the middle of this desert sea, we acquire two more vagabonds. Bedouins like ourselves, eh, Esmeralda?

  Lorelei - Circus Troupe : Why, they're just a couple of kids.

  Barry Kane : [with Pat]  Uh - our car broke down way back, and we've walked for miles. We saw your bus and hopped on. We didn't want to wake you at this hour.

  Midget - Circus Troupe : Broke down, eh? We didn't pass no wrecks on the highway. The whole thing sounds like a pack of lies.

  Barry Kane : You - you see we were off on a side road.

  Lorelei - Circus Troupe : I know. A moonlight night and a parked car. That's nice.

• Barry Kane : I'm coming up in the world. Now I'm better than the snakes!