Alan Napier credited as playing...
Alton Bennet
- Dr. Redman: How often have you had these dreams, Mr Bennet?
- Alton Bennet: Oh, five or six times. Every night for the past week in fact.
- Dr. Redman: Have to mentioned them to anyone? To your wife in particular?
- Alton Bennet: A recurrent dream in which I brutally beat my wife with a perfume bottle is hardly a cheerful topic for the breakfast table.
- Ruth: Oh did I waken you, darling? I meant to be very quiet.
- Alton Bennet: Too quiet my dear. Such overplaying of wifely solicitude might easily misunderstood.
- Ruth: If you're hinting that I was sneaking in... .?
- Alton Bennet: Doesn't matter. Nothing matters any more. The time has come when words fail to have meaning, when only what one feels is important. I'm going to kill you, Ruth. I have to.
- Alton Bennet: I love my wife.
- Dr. Redman: Perhaps. And all men kill the thing they love. Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word.
- Alton Bennet: Or a quart-sized perfume bottle?
- Dr. Redman: Less romantic but just as practical.
- Alton Bennet: Your reasoning is quite as bad as your rendition of Wilde, Dr Redman. I resent them both equally.
- Dr. Redman: I apologise for my poetry but not for my reasoning. Does your wife return your affection?
- Dr. Redman: It is my honest conviction that she hates me thoroughly.