And Then There Were None (1945)
Barry Fitzgerald: Judge Francis J. Quincannon
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Quotes
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Philip Lombard : Hello puss, looking for a mouse? So are we.
Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : What I'd like to know is if we're the cat, or the mouse.
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Dr. Edward G. Armstrong : We all build islands of imagination. Represents escape. Half of my patients are sick because they're trying to escape reality.
Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : Well, and what's your answer?
Dr. Edward G. Armstrong : Oh, I tell them fairytales. I build them islands of imagined security.
Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : Don't you believe in medicine, Doctor?
Dr. Edward G. Armstrong : Do you believe in justice, Judge?
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Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : We tell the story in Ireland about the two Englishmen who were cast away on a desert island for three years and never spoke to each other, because they hadn't been introduced.
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Judge Francis J. Quincannon : So you see, the whole thing has been as inevitable as in a nursery rhyme. When the boat arrives from the mainland, there will be ten dead bodies, and a riddle no one can solve on Indian Island.
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Dr. Edward G. Armstrong : Maybe we've been wrong, built up a nightmare out of imagination.
Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : Two people dead isn't imagination.
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Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : Mr. Owen could only come to the island in one way. It's perfectly clear. Mr. Owen is one of us.
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Philip Lombard : Mr. Owen's hand is plain to see.
Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : Yes, but where the devil is Mr. Owen himself?
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Judge Francis J. Quincannon : Don't forget the old proverb, Doctor. Never trust a man who doesn't drink.
Detective William Henry Blore : Sounds like the Bible. Great book.
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Thomas Rogers : [Pours a drink into a glass. Hiccups.]
Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : [Reaches for the glass.] Don't put any water in.
Thomas Rogers : I shan't, sir.
[Sits down in an armchair, lounges in it, and drinks from the glass.]
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Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : The place for nursery rhymes is in the nursery.