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Year: 1950

Director:
Stuart Heisler

Dallas

Brant Marlow: How's he gonna pay us the money he owes us if we keep topping off his herd?
Will Marlow: I don't buy mortgages to get paid back. I buy them to foreclose.

-- Raymond Massey in Dallas (1950)

Year: 1951

Director:
Henry King

David and Bathsheba

King David: That soldier who laid his hands on the Ark - he was only trying to be helpful.
Nathan: It is not for us to question the ways of the Lord.
King David: I question nothing, yet the sun was hot that day, the man had been drinking wine, all were excited when the ark began to fall. Is it not possible that the man might have died naturally from other causes?
Nathan: All causes are from God!

-- Raymond Massey in David and Bathsheba (1951)

Year: 1944

Director:
Frank Capra

Arsenic and Old Lace

Dr. Einstein: You shouldn't have killed him. Just because he know something about us, what happens?
Jonathan Brewster: We come to him for help, and he tries to shake us down. Besides, he said I looked like Boris Karloff!

-- Raymond Massey (as Jonathan Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Year: 1946

Director:
Michael Powell*Emeric Pressburger

A Matter of Life and Death

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.

-- Raymond Massey (as Abraham Farlan) in A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Year: 1946

Director:
Michael Powell*Emeric Pressburger

A Matter of Life and Death

Abraham Farlan: Child, where were you born?
June: In Boston Sir.
Abraham Farlan: Do you know this man?
June: I think so.
Abraham Farlan: You think so?
June: I only met him a few days ago.
Abraham Farlan: You hardly know him. How can you think you love him?
June: But I do love him.
Abraham Farlan: Nonsense my child.
Doctor Frank Reeves: I object. Council will withdraw the expression.
June: It's all right Frank. he's right. There's no sense in love.
Abraham Farlan: Wisdom still flowers in Boston.

-- Raymond Massey (as Abraham Farlan) in A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Year: 1941

Director:
Michael Powell

Forty-Ninth Parallel

Andy Brock: [to Hirth] I can grouse about the food, and the C.O. and anything I blamed please. And that's more than you with your Gestapo and your stormtroopers and your Aryan bourgeoisie. Ahhh, nuts. What's the good of talking to you. You can't even begin to understand democracy. We own the right to be fed up with anything we damn please and say so out loud when we feel like it.

-- Raymond Massey in Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941)

Year: 1941

Director:
Michael Powell

Forty-Ninth Parallel

Andy Brock: The government says, "We want men to fight the Nazis, join today." So I joined. I figured they were in a hurry. That was three hundred and eighty seven days ago. Four divisions and a lot of drafts have gone overseas, and what's number B987642 doing? Guarding the Chippewa Canal. Who'd want to steal it anyway?

-- Raymond Massey in Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941)

Year: 1937

Director:
John Cromwell*W.S. Van Dyke

The Prisoner of Zenda

Black Michael: There may come a time, Hentzau, when your services no longer excuse your impertinance.

-- Raymond Massey (as Black Michael) in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

Year: 1943

Director:
Lloyd Bacon*Byron Haskin*Raoul Walsh

Action in the North Atlantic

Capt. Steve Jarvis: [to a departing German U-boat after it has rammed his survivor lifeboat] Go on, laugh, you apes! You've had your blood and fire to make you laugh, but I swear to God our time is comin'! We'll pay ya back! We'll hunt ya down and slice ya like a piece of cheese!
Lt. Joe Rossi: Oh, they can't hear you.
Capt. Steve Jarvis: No, but God can.

-- Raymond Massey (as Capt. Steve Jarvis) in Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

Year: 1951

Director:
Edwin L. Marin

Sugarfoot

Jacob Stint: I knew this town wasn't big enough to hold the two of us.

-- Raymond Massey in Sugarfoot (1951)

Film Quotes by Raymond Massey