Rita Hayworth credited as playing...
Chris Emery
- Trinidad Band: [singing] A chick-a-chick boom, a chick-a-chick boom / Announces you're in the room with the Trinidad Lady. / A chick-a-chick boom, a chick-a-chick boom / Your ticker goes boom-boom-boom for the Trinidad Lady.
- Chris Emery: [singing] It's only that I do what I love and love what I do / Can't help the mad desire that's deep inside of you. / You realize the fault isn't mine, you are to blame / You want what you can't have, and you're just the same.
- Chris Emery: Would you like to come in?
- Max Fabian: Everything thrives in the tropics, including gossip. It might be better if I didn't.
- Chris Emery: You're Steve - Domenique told me.
- Steve Emery: ..and I know who you are. I read about you in the paper.
- Anderson: Good evening, I...
- Chris Emery: I know all about it. You know me. It's wonderful to meet an American girl and couldn't I have a drink with you after the show. Well, the answer's: no. If you know me, go home to your wife.
- Inspector Smythe: When did you last see your husband?
- Chris Emery: This morning at breakfast. Why?
- Inspector Smythe: Did you talk to him?
- Chris Emery: Sure. I asked him to pass me the salt.
- Inspector Smythe: It is illogical. I mean, Mr. Fabian paying your husband a thousand dollars for a painting.
- Chris Emery: He happened to like his work. He's bought paintings from him before.
- Inspector Smythe: Doesn't a thousand dollars seem rather high for the work of an unknown artist?
- Chris Emery: All right. If the money was for something else, tell me. I'd like to know too!
- Inspector Smythe: I was hoping you'd tell me.
- Inspector Smythe: He comes to the Cafe frequently to see you.
- Chris Emery: Lots of people come to see me. That's what I'm paid for!
- Inspector Smythe: You don't sit at the table with them. Not become quite so intimate. You are quite intimate with Mr. Fabian, aren't you?
- Inspector Smythe: By the way, I wouldn't try to leave the island, if I were you. The planes and the boats will be told to watch for you.
- Chris Emery: Don't forget the sharks! I might try to swim!
- Jimmy Peters - Reporter: How 'bout giving a fellow American a break, Mrs. Emery? My names Peters, freelance reporter. I'd like to get some details on this story, you know, American girl, ex-GI.
- Chris Emery: With pictures of me doing native dances?
- Jimmy Peters - Reporter: Why not? We could both pick up a few bucks.
- Chris Emery: Not interested.
- Jimmy Peters - Reporter: Listen, baby! You don't have to put on an act with me. I've been in that joint you work in.
- Chris Emery: I hate to think what tomorrow's paper will look like. By the time this is over, I won't be able to go back home.
- Anderson: There is an alternative, Mrs. Emery.
- Inspector Smythe: Yes, there is. And we'd much prefer it. If you could help us find out exactly what Mr. Fabian is doing in Trinidad.
- Chris Emery: Me? How could I...
- Inspector Smythe: It's well known that Mr. Fabian finds you *most* attractive.
- Chris Emery: Right now, I don't know what I want to do, where I want to go. I - I just feel numb and tired.
- Chris Emery: Just a minute. What makes you think you can rush in here and talk to me like this? What do you know about me?
- Steve Emery: I just have to look at you to know what happened. I can see how Neil fell for a dame like you and I know the type of time you gave him.
- Dominique: No one can live on grief. Yesterday is yesterday. Tomorrow is tomorrow.
- Chris Emery: You left out today.
- Dominique: Today is already yesterday.
- Dominique: I shock you, perhaps. When one day is over, another day begins.
- Chris Emery: West Indian proverb?
- Dominique: West Indian household hint.
- Max Fabian: I'll be leaving Trinidad as soon as my affairs here are settled. And, I was hoping...
- Chris Emery: Affairs? Why, I thought you were a man of leisure?
- Max Fabian: I could be, if it would please you.
- Steve Emery: Why didn't you tell me you had a date with Fabian?
- Chris Emery: I meant to! But, I forgot.
- Steve Emery: You forgot a lot of things. You forgot to tell me he was a friend of your's as well as Neil's. That he bought Neil's paintings. Did you also forget to tell me that he bought Neil's wife?
- Steve Emery: [last lines - they're on a passenger ship, leaving Trinidad] Taking a last look at Trinidad? You know, you're gonna' find Chicago kinda' cold after the tropics.
- Chris Emery: Am I?