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Film Quotes by Edmund Purdom

14 quotes
Athena
Year: 1954

Director:
Richard Thorpe
Adam Calhorn Shaw: What's their number?
Johnny Nyle: Oh, they don't believe in telephones.
Adam Calhorn Shaw: Telephones are not a matter of faith!
-- Edmund Purdom (as Adam Calhorn Shaw) in Athena (1954)
Athena
Year: 1954

Director:
Richard Thorpe
Adam Calhorn Shaw: You earned $100,000 singing?
Johnny Nyle: Well, you probably wouldn't call it singing. I'm a crooner.
Adam Calhorn Shaw: There ought to be a law against that.
-- Edmund Purdom (as Adam Calhorn Shaw) in Athena (1954)
King Sveno: [speaking of Harald] I'll make him die a slow death. I want a drop of his blood for each of our soldiers he's killed.
King Sveno: Don't kill him! Save him! I want him alive!
The Prodigal
Year: 1955

Director:
Richard Thorpe
Micah: [referring to his first sight of Samarra] Nahreeb, you said that everything has its price.
Nahreeb: She is not for a follower of Jehovah!
Micah: I mean to have her one way or the other!
-- Edmund Purdom (as Micah) in The Prodigal (1955)
The Prodigal
Year: 1955

Director:
Richard Thorpe
Micah: [Referring to Ruth] If she did come, I would tell her that what cannot be forgotten can sometimes be forgiven.
-- Edmund Purdom (as Micah) in The Prodigal (1955)
The Prodigal
Year: 1955

Director:
Richard Thorpe
Micah: Asham. I've drunk deep of every wine from here to Petra, and I've had my full share of women. Yet I'm behaving like a beardless boy panting for the first forbidden fruit that he sees. A priestess who worships a painted graven image! But she's in my blood!
-- Edmund Purdom (as Micah) in The Prodigal (1955)
The Prodigal
Year: 1955

Director:
Richard Thorpe
Micah: I would rather be a servant in my father's house than king in Damascus.
-- Edmund Purdom (as Micah) in The Prodigal (1955)
The Prodigal
Year: 1955

Director:
Richard Thorpe
Micah: Sometimes, Asham, a man must make a little trouble.
-- Edmund Purdom (as Micah) in The Prodigal (1955)
The Viceroy: ...if the young man chooses to be difficult, there are methods other than the whip to loosen his tongue.