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Sandra Dee, Rock Hudson, Bobby Darin, and Gina Lollobrigida in Come September (1961)

Rock Hudson: Robert L. Talbot

Come September

Rock Hudson credited as playing...

Robert L. Talbot

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  • Lisa Helena Fellini: How could I be that stupid? You're wealthy, good-looking, intelligent, charming! I should have known better than to get mixed up with someone like that.
  • Robert L. Talbot: You're not making any sense.
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: I don't have to make sense. I'm Italian!
  • Robert L. Talbot: We never spoke of marriage! We were Happy!
  • Sandy: It must have been a terrible war.
  • Robert L. Talbot: They usually are.
  • Sandy: Yes well I'd like to talk to you about it sometime.
  • Robert L. Talbot: About what?
  • Sandy: The war.
  • Robert L. Talbot: The *war*?
  • Sandy: I have a feeling I can help.
  • Robert L. Talbot: I doubt it. It's over.
  • Robert L. Talbot: Lisa, I'm asking you in a nice way. Now stop being an idiot! Get off that blasted bus and marry me.
  • Robert L. Talbot: You know, man is the only animal clever enough to build the Empire State Building, and *stupid* enough to jump off it!
  • Robert L. Talbot: I can go to *jail* for what can happen to those girls!
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: What can happen to them? They are four boys and six girls. That adds up to ten, and there's safety in numbers.
  • Robert L. Talbot: Now there's more to mathematics than adding. Those boys look *quite capable* of dividing and multiplying!
  • Robert L. Talbot: [looking at his villa] I said, isn't that a new color?
  • Maurice Clavell: [chuckles] Houses are like women; The older they get, the more paint they need.
  • Robert L. Talbot: Lisa, believe me, no love affair can survive if the either part starts to *think*!
  • Robert L. Talbot: I want that villa put up for *sale*! And if you can't *sell* it, *burn* it! I've *had* it with this country!
  • Maurice Clavell: Sir, this is not time to be burning your villas behind you. She loves you. She wants to marry you!
  • Robert L. Talbot: Yeah, she has a funny way of showing it!
  • Maurice Clavell: Italian women are emotional. Sh- sh... she been hurt. She wants time to think.
  • Robert L. Talbot: Well, I wanna go back to America... where people get married *without* thinking!
  • Robert L. Talbot: You wouldn't think a cork this small could lay out a woman that big.
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: They are normal, healthy boys and normal, healthy girls, no?
  • Robert L. Talbot: That can lead to a normal, unhealthy situation, yes.
  • Robert L. Talbot: The bedroom is like a wedding gown; it's bad luck to let the fella see you in it before you marry him.
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: Robert! How could you do this? Hm?
  • Robert L. Talbot: I was only following their golden rule: do unto others before they do it to you!
  • Robert L. Talbot: Somebody has to look after those girls.
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: I think that they're parents' responsibility.
  • Robert L. Talbot: You know the trouble with the American parent? They have a new gimmick. Keep your kids off the streets, send them to Europe.
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: Robert?
  • Robert L. Talbot: Mhm?
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: When you get to the terrace, would you do me a favour?
  • Robert L. Talbot: Sure.
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: Jump off.
  • Robert L. Talbot: It's gone!
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: What?
  • Robert L. Talbot: There's a body missing. It's the one body I don't wanna have missing.
  • Robert L. Talbot: [speaking to Lisa] Teenagers are like the H bomb. When they go off, it's much better to observe them from a distance.
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: Really, Robert, they're very nice American boys.
  • Robert L. Talbot: So was the Dalton gang.
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: You know the boys are very hurt; they think you don't like them.
  • Robert L. Talbot: The boys are right.
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: Robert! You have a moral streak.
  • Robert L. Talbot: You know me better than that.
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: Ah! That's another thing. If you loved me, you'd have learned my language! But no, I had to do it. The weeks I spent studying... Learning to speak this... fluid English.
  • Robert L. Talbot: Not "fluid." Fluent!
  • Lisa Helena Fellini: Big shot! Knows all the words!

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