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Margaret Lockwood in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Basil Radford: Charters

The Lady Vanishes

Basil Radford credited as playing...

Charters

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  • Charters: If only we hadn't missed that train at Budapest.
  • Caldicott: Well, I don't want to rub it in, but if you hadn't insisted on standing up until they'd finished their national anthem...
  • Charters: Yes, but you must show respect, Caldicott. If I'd known it was going to last twenty minutes...
  • Caldicott: It has always been my contention that the Hungarian Rhapsody is *not* their national anthem.
  • Miss Froy: Everyone sings here. The people are just like happy children with laughter in their lips and music in their hearts.
  • Charters: It's not reflected in their politics, you know.
  • Miss Froy: I never think you should judge any country by its politics. After all, we English are quite honest by nature, aren't we?
  • Iris Henderson: I was having tea about an hour ago with an English lady. You saw her, didn't you?
  • Charters: Well, I don't know, I mean, I was talking to my friend, wasn't I?
  • Caldicott: Indubitably.
  • Iris Henderson: Yes, but you were sitting at the next table. She turned and borrowed the sugar. You must remember.
  • Charters: Yes, I recall passing the sugar.
  • Iris Henderson: Well then you saw her.
  • Charters: I repeat we were deep in conversation. We were discussing cricket.
  • Iris Henderson: Well, I don't see how a thing like cricket can make you forget seeing people.
  • Charters: Oh, don't you? If that's your attitude, there's nothing more to be said! Come Caldicott. "A thing like cricket!"
  • Gilbert: Wrong tactics. We should've told him we were looking for a lost cricket ball.
  • Charters: [Speaking into the telephone] Tell me, what's happening to England?
  • [pause]
  • Charters: Blowing a gale? No, I'm inquiring about the test match in Manchester.
  • [pause]
  • Charters: Cricket, sir. Cricket!
  • [pause]
  • Charters: You don't know? You can't be in England and not know the test score.
  • Charters: [Turns to Caldicott] The fellow says he doesn't know.
  • Caldicott: Silly ass!
  • Charters: You can't expect to put the two of us up in the maid's room.
  • Hotel Manager: Well don't get excited. I'll remove the maid out.
  • Caldicott: People just don't vanish and so forth.
  • Charters: She has.
  • Caldicott: What?
  • Charters: Vanished.
  • Caldicott: Who?
  • Charters: The old dame.
  • Caldicott: Yes.
  • Charters: Well?
  • Caldicott: Well, how could she?
  • Charters: What?
  • Caldicott: Well, vanish.
  • Charters: I don't know.
  • Caldicott: That just explains my point. People don't just disappear into thin air.
  • Charters: Meanwhile we have to stand here cooling our heels. I suppose, eh? Confounded impudence!
  • Caldicott: A third rate country. What do you expect?
  • Charters: l wonder who those women were.
  • Caldicott: Possibly Americans, I should think. You know, almighty dollar, old man.
  • Charters: You don't suppose there's something in this fellow's story, Caldicott, do you?
  • Caldicott: Seems a bit queer.
  • Charters: I mean, after all, people don't go about tying up nuns.
  • Caldicott: [because the hotel is full, Charters and Caldicott have been forced to share the maid's room] They might at least have given us one each?
  • Charters: What?
  • Caldicott: The room at least.
  • Miss Froy: Bandrika is one of Europe's few undiscovered corners.
  • Charters: Yes, that's probably because there's nothing worth discovering, I should think.
  • Charters: A queer sort of bird.
  • Caldicott: A trifle whimsical, that's all.
  • Charters: After six years in this hole, we'd be whimsical.
  • Charters: What a country. No wonder they have revolutions.
  • [first lines]
  • Caldicott: What's all this fuss about, Charters?
  • Charters: Damned if l know.

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