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Honor Blackman, Olivia Hussey, Edward Fox, Michael Callan, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Beatrix Lehmann, Carol Lynley, Daniel Massey, and Peter McEnery in The Cat and the Canary (1978)

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The Cat and the Canary

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  • Cyrus West: Good evening, leeches. Take your places. As you know, I am Cyrus West. Now first of all, let me tell you that you're all a bunch of bastards. I know, I know the people you came from. They're all a bunch of bastards. Yes, your fathers, your mothers, your uncles, your aunts, your nephews, your nieces, your sons, your daughters, not to mention a cartload of cousins. All a bunch of bastards except, of course, Mew Mew, and perhaps one or two others. Perhaps I'm the biggest bastard of you all, to bring you here this night, so distant in the future, and to sit here contemplating the interaction of you parasites.
  • Annabelle West: Paul, you're hurt!
  • Paul Jones: No, no, I'm all right. I think the left side of my head's missing.
  • Paul Jones: No one is more sincere than a greedy cousin. That's Paul Jones' theory of relativity.
  • Hendricks: But, eh, wasn't it Bertrand Russell who asked 'What is a killer but a hero out of uniform'?
  • Susan Sillsby: Hm, my favourite period: early Devil's Island.
  • Paul Jones: Wanna hear my new song? I wrote it while I was unconscious. It's called 'Kiss My Heiress'.
  • Hendricks: Weapons can be as dangerous as maniacs.
  • [Harry Blythe and Charlie Wilder meet, and it is obvious that they hate the sight of each other and have done so for a long time]
  • Allison Crosby: [exasperated] Why don't you two make up and shake hands?
  • [Charlie walks over to Harry and offers his hand. Grimacing, Harry shakes it]
  • Dr. Harry Blythe: I never though I'd be able to do *that* without gloves.
  • Charlie Wilder: Aren't you wearing gloves?
  • Allison Crosby: Between the Bolsheviks on one side and the Democrats on the other, the world has become unrecognisable.
  • Dr. Harry Blythe: Alright, but you haven't heard the last of me. Oh, Annabelle! You're driving me crazy.
  • Annabelle West: Oh, Harry, it runs in the family.
  • Annabelle West: Paul, what kind of cousins are we?
  • Paul Jones: Kissing cousins.
  • Annabelle West: Isn't that illegal?
  • Paul Jones: Only if it feels good. It's illegal. And I could do this for the rest of our lives.
  • Annabelle West: Which may not be very long.

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