Quotes from A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
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Conductor 71:
You are determined to get me into this... salade.
Peter: And what about the salad you got me into?
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David Niven
(as Peter Carter)
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A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
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Doctor Frank Reeves:
[talking to Peter] I've got bad news for you.
June: Then why the grin? Doctor Frank Reeves: You're going with me. June: Where to? Doctor Frank Reeves: [talking to both June and Peter] To my house, for two reasons, first I want to meet this chap next time he drops in and second I like a nice girl around the house and she only come to see me to borrow a book, and she's a slow reader
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Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
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A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
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Doctor Frank Reeves:
A weak mind isn't strong enough to hurt itself. Stupidity has saved many a man from going mad.
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Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
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A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
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Doctor Frank Reeves:
Ah, there's June. She walks in beauty, like the night... Only she's cycling and it's daytime.
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Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
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A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
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Doctor Frank Reeves:
Milord, I submit that this court is concerned with the life and death of Peter Carter and not with past history or present plumbing.
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Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
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A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
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Doctor Frank Reeves:
Sir, may I bring you up to date? We are living in the 20th century, not in the 18th.
Abraham Farlan: May I bring you up to date, sir? We are not alive at all.
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Raymond Massey
(as Abraham Farlan)
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A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
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Doctor Frank Reeves:
Tell me, do you believe in the survival of human personality after death?
Peter: I thought you said you read my verses. [to June] Doctor Frank Reeves: Do you? June: I don't know, er, I'd never thought about it, do you? Doctor Frank Reeves: I don't know, I've thought about it too much.
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Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
in
A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
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Doctor Frank Reeves:
The rights of the uncommon man must always be respected.
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Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
in
A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
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Doctor Frank Reeves:
This is a court of justice, not of law.
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Roger Livesey
(as Doctor Frank Reeves)
in
A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
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June:
[opening words, before faces shown on screen] Request your position. Come in, Lancaster. Come in, Lancaster.
Peter: Position - nil, repeat nil. Age - 27, 27, did you get that? Very important. Education - interrupted, violently interrupted. Religion - Church of England. Politics - Conservative by nature, Labour by experience. What's your name?
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David Niven
(as Peter Carter)
in
A Matter of Life and Death
(1946)
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