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Quotes from The Old Dark House (1932)

10 quotes
Ernest Thesiger
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.
- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)

Gloria Stuart
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.
- Gloria Stuart (as Margaret Waverton) in The Old Dark House (1932)

Ernest Thesiger
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!
- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)

Ernest Thesiger
Horace Femm: [picking up a bunch of flowers] My sister was on the point of arranging these flowers.
[He tosses them into the fire]
- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)

Ernest Thesiger
Horace Femm: It's only gin, you know. Only gin. I like gin.
- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)

Ernest Thesiger
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.
- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)

Ernest Thesiger
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
- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)

Lilian Bond
Gladys DuCane: I know wind when I see it.
- Lilian Bond (as Gladys DuCane Perkins) in The Old Dark House (1932)

Melvyn Douglas
[Morgan slowly opens the door]
Morgan: [groaning and muttering]
Roger Penderel: Even Welsh ought not to sound like that!
- Melvyn Douglas (as Roger Penderel) in The Old Dark House (1932)

Ernest Thesiger
[repeated line]
Horace Femm: Have a potato.
- Ernest Thesiger (as Horace Femm) in The Old Dark House (1932)