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John Gilbert in Desert Nights (1929)

John Gilbert: Hugh Rand

Desert Nights

John Gilbert credited as playing...

Hugh Rand

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Quotes23

  • Lady Diana Stonehill: The diamonds are in here. Take them - and give me water.
  • [Rand shakes his head no]
  • Lady Diana Stonehill: Take me...
  • Hugh Rand: [Looking at a disheveled Diana] The paint's all peeled off - there's nothing tempting about you now -...
  • Hugh Rand: [Overcome by Diana's beauty] Three years away from the world - - a man almost forgets there are women like you...
  • Hugh Rand: Vultures - waiting for your bodies! What a meal Steve would make!
  • Lady Diana Stonehill: Listen, Good-looking - why don't you use a little reason? Guide us out of here - - and we'll split the diamonds with you - - Once out of here - I may even - - drop Steve.
  • Hugh Rand: The diamonds are mine - and you'll be mine when I want you.
  • Hugh Rand: [after a desperate Diana threatens to drink salt water] It's a slow death - and the vultures won't wait till life has left your body!
  • Assistant manager: [after reading telegram] A lady from home! Haven't seen a white woman in years.
  • Hugh Rand: Don't expect too much. No beauty would come to this desolate hole.
  • [Takes the telegram]
  • Hugh Rand: I bet she's an old maid - bow-legged and cross-eyed!
  • Hugh Rand: Free me - and I'll free you.
  • Lady Diana Stonehill: What?
  • Hugh Rand: From Steve.
  • Lady Diana Stonehill: My father?
  • Hugh Rand: I fell for that once!
  • Hugh Rand: [to Diana] Play the game with me - diamonds and youth - - the world is ours!
  • Hugh Rand: [referring to the hyenas] They'll eat everything but the buckle on your belt.
  • Lady Diana Stonehill: Nothing but desert and burning sun. How do you endure it?
  • Hugh Rand: I hadn't minded it so much - until now.
  • Hugh Rand: Would you like to see some diamonds in the rough?
  • Lady Diana Stonehill: Hello, Good-looking - how are you enjoying the hunting trip?
  • Hugh Rand: As a hostess, you're a pretty slick crook - *Lady* Diana!
  • Lady Diana Stonehill: Nothing but sun and sand! Are we ever going to reach water?
  • Hugh Rand: I've drawn the last from the barrel! If you're a good girl, I'll give you a swallow when we camp!
  • Hugh Rand: Buck up, you brave diamond thief! There's sure to be water over that hill!
  • Hugh Rand: She's veiled - now I know she's cross-eyed.
  • Lady Diana Stonehill: Can't you join us for our hunt? I am sure father would be delighted.
  • Hugh Rand: I could arrange it - - if *you* would be delighted.
  • Hugh Rand: My foot is on a button that will summon a hundred guards.
  • Lord Stonehill: My machine gun will mow them down like weeds.
  • Hugh Rand: They'll be a whole lot hotter when they find those diamonds are glass!
  • Lord Stonehill: Careful what you say to my daughter!
  • Hugh Rand: Daughter my eye!
  • Hugh Rand: Hyenas! Don't fall asleep. They might think you dead - and start in on your carcass.

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