Quotes from The Hurricane (1937)
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Madame Germaine De Laage:
[storm is relentlessly pounding the church, people inside hear the sea gaining on the church]
Madame Germaine De Laage: Father, will the sea rise and cover the island? Father Paul: We're on the highest part here, my daughter. Even if the sea reaches us, the walls will keep it out.
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C. Aubrey Smith
(as Father Paul)
in
The Hurricane
(1937)
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Father Paul:
[as Terangi tries to kiss his hand] No, no, you owe me no thanks, my son. This is between me and somebody else.
[a heavenly chorus is heard]
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C. Aubrey Smith
(as Father Paul)
in
The Hurricane
(1937)
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Abusive Drunk:
[to terangi's friends] "Get up! Get up I said!
[2 people flee the table, Terangi does not move] Abusive Drunk: [to Terangi] "Clear out! Get up when a white man tells ya! [he hits Terangi, Terangi hits him back, braking his jaw]
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William B. Davidson
(as Abusive Drunk)
in
The Hurricane
(1937)
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Dr. Kersaint:
[Hearing an ominous wind] The Devil's abroad tonight.
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Thomas Mitchell
(as Dr. Kersaint)
in
The Hurricane
(1937)
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Dr. Kersaint:
You know, I play a kind of chess game with the oldest gambler in the world, Mehevi. He takes Mama Rua, and I checkmate him with a baby.
[laughs] Dr. Kersaint: I'll think I'll have another drop of cognac just to keep the wind out of my bones on the way home.
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Thomas Mitchell
(as Dr. Kersaint)
in
The Hurricane
(1937)
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Terangi:
[from the tree, Terangi sees two columns collapse on the west wall of the church] The church! It's going!
Terangi: [after fighting the pounding seas to get inside the church] Father Paul, come! The sea is breaking in, the walls are going, Look! [points to the altar, where the wind starts tearing up the corrugated iron roof] Father Paul: Take those who want to go. I am staying here! Terangi: You will drown, Father Paul! You saved me. Take my arm and let me save you! Father Paul: No, my son, Take Madame. Madame Germaine De Laage: No! I'll stay with you Father Paul Father Paul: Take her! Take her back safe to the world that will drown you, Terangi. [storm shatters the gothic window on the west wall, more water and wind blow into the church] Father Paul: Please Madame, Go. Terangi, Take her Terangi: Yes, Father. Father Paul: Those of you who wish to go, go now! Those who wish to sing with me, for the last time, stay.
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C. Aubrey Smith
(as Father Paul)
in
The Hurricane
(1937)
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Terangi:
[from the tree, Terangi sees two colums collapse on the west wall of the church] The church! It's going!
Terangi: [after fighting the pounding seas to get inside the church] Father Paul, come! The sea is breaking in, the walls are going, Look! [points to the altar, where the wind starts tearing up the corrugated iron roof] Father Paul: Take those who want to go. I am staying here! Terangi: You will drown, Father Paul! You saved me. Take my arm and let me save you! Father Paul: No, my son, Take Madame. Madame Germaine De Laage: No! I'll stay with you Father Paul Father Paul: Take her! Take her back safe to the world that will drown you, Terangi. [storm shatters the gothic window on the west wall, more water and wind blow into the church] Father Paul: Please Madame, Go. Terangi, Take her Terangi: Yes, Father. Father Paul: Those of you who wish to go, go now! Those who wish to sing with me, for the last time, stay.
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C. Aubrey Smith
(as Father Paul)
in
The Hurricane
(1937)
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DeLaage:
My dear doctor, I'm ready to give my wife and my friends anything I own in the world except my sense of honor and duty.
Dr. Kersaint: A sense of honor in the South Seas is about as useful and often as silly as a silk hat in a hurricane.
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Thomas Mitchell
(as Dr. Kersaint)
in
The Hurricane
(1937)
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DeLaage:
You helped Terangi? My own priest?
Father Paul: I'm his priest too! DeLaage: You helped a murderer! Father Paul: I aided a man whose heart is innocent. DeLaage: You've given aid to anarchy and bloodshed! Father Paul: I'll answer for it.
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C. Aubrey Smith
(as Father Paul)
in
The Hurricane
(1937)
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