Quotes from The Old Dark House (1932)
10 quotes
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Rebecca Femm:
What is it? What do they want?
Horace Femm: Allow me to introduce my sister, Miss Rebecca Femm. Roger Penderel, Philip Waverton, Margaret Waverton: How do you do? Rebecca Femm: What are they doing here? What do they want? Roger Penderel, Philip Waverton, Margaret Waverton: How do you do? Rebecca Femm: What did they say? What do they want? What are they doing here? What's all the fuss about? What? Horace Femm: You must excuse my sister, she's a little deaf. In fact sometimes quite deaf.
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Ernest Thesiger
(as Horace Femm)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
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Margaret Waverton:
Well, I know what I'm going to do. That is if Miss Femm will let me.
Rebecca Femm: What? Margaret Waverton: I'm dreadfully wet and I'd be so glad if I could go and change my clothes. Margaret Waverton: What? Rebecca Femm: I wondered if I might go and change my things. Margaret Waverton: You look wet. You'd better go and change your things.
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Gloria Stuart
(as Margaret Waverton)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
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Sir William Porterhouse:
Oh, nothing like roast beef when a man's hungry.
[sings] Sir William Porterhouse: Oh, the roast beef of Old England... how does that go? Do you remember that Mr Waverton or was that before your time? Philip Waverton: Penderel's our song expert. Sir William Porterhouse: Oh, so you're musical, are you? Well, I've got a bit of a good ear myself... Horace Femm: [knocking loudly on the table] Have a potato!
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Ernest Thesiger
(as Horace Femm)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
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Horace Femm:
[picking up a bunch of flowers] My sister was on the point of arranging these flowers.
[He tosses them into the fire]
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Ernest Thesiger
(as Horace Femm)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
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Horace Femm:
It's only gin, you know. Only gin. I like gin.
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Ernest Thesiger
(as Horace Femm)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
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Horace Femm:
The fact is, Morgan is an uncivilized brute. Sometimes he drinks heavily. A night like this will set him going and once he's drunk he's rather dangerous.
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Ernest Thesiger
(as Horace Femm)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
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Horace Femm:
We make our own electric light here, and we are not very good at it. Pray, don't be alarmed if they go out altogether
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Ernest Thesiger
(as Horace Femm)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
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Gladys DuCane:
I know wind when I see it.
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Lilian Bond
(as Gladys DuCane Perkins)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
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[Morgan slowly opens the door]
Morgan: [groaning and muttering] Roger Penderel: Even Welsh ought not to sound like that!
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Melvyn Douglas
(as Roger Penderel)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
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Ernest Thesiger
(as Horace Femm)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
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