L'affaire de Trinidad (1952)

Rita Hayworth: Chris Emery

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• Trinidad Band : [singing]  A chick-a-chick boom, a chick-a-chick boom / Announces you're in the room with the Trinidad Lady. / A chick-a-chick boom, a chick-a-chick boom / Your ticker goes boom-boom-boom for the Trinidad Lady.

  Chris Emery : [singing]  It's only that I do what I love and love what I do / Can't help the mad desire that's deep inside of you. / You realize the fault isn't mine, you are to blame / You want what you can't have, and you're just the same.

• Chris Emery : Would you like to come in?

  Max Fabian : Everything thrives in the tropics, including gossip. It might be better if I didn't.

• Chris Emery : You're Steve - Domenique told me.

  Steve Emery : ..and I know who you are. I read about you in the paper.

• Anderson : Good evening, I...

  Chris Emery : I know all about it. You know me. It's wonderful to meet an American girl and couldn't I have a drink with you after the show. Well, the answer's: no. If you know me, go home to your wife.

• Chris Emery : Am I being deported or something?

• Inspector Smythe : When did you last see your husband?

  Chris Emery : This morning at breakfast. Why?

  Inspector Smythe : Did you talk to him?

  Chris Emery : Sure. I asked him to pass me the salt.

• Chris Emery : Funny, isn't it. When a person dies, you only remember the good things.

• Inspector Smythe : It is illogical. I mean, Mr. Fabian paying your husband a thousand dollars for a painting.

  Chris Emery : He happened to like his work. He's bought paintings from him before.

  Inspector Smythe : Doesn't a thousand dollars seem rather high for the work of an unknown artist?

  Chris Emery : All right. If the money was for something else, tell me. I'd like to know too!

  Inspector Smythe : I was hoping you'd tell me.

• Inspector Smythe : He comes to the Cafe frequently to see you.

  Chris Emery : Lots of people come to see me. That's what I'm paid for!

  Inspector Smythe : You don't sit at the table with them. Not become quite so intimate. You are quite intimate with Mr. Fabian, aren't you?

• Inspector Smythe : By the way, I wouldn't try to leave the island, if I were you. The planes and the boats will be told to watch for you.

  Chris Emery : Don't forget the sharks! I might try to swim!

• Jimmy Peters - Reporter : How 'bout giving a fellow American a break, Mrs. Emery? My names Peters, freelance reporter. I'd like to get some details on this story, you know, American girl, ex-GI.

  Chris Emery : With pictures of me doing native dances?

  Jimmy Peters - Reporter : Why not? We could both pick up a few bucks.

  Chris Emery : Not interested.

  Jimmy Peters - Reporter : Listen, baby! You don't have to put on an act with me. I've been in that joint you work in.

• Chris Emery : I hate to think what tomorrow's paper will look like. By the time this is over, I won't be able to go back home.

  Anderson : There is an alternative, Mrs. Emery.

  Inspector Smythe : Yes, there is. And we'd much prefer it. If you could help us find out exactly what Mr. Fabian is doing in Trinidad.

  Chris Emery : Me? How could I...

  Inspector Smythe : It's well known that Mr. Fabian finds you *most* attractive.

• Chris Emery : Right now, I don't know what I want to do, where I want to go. I - I just feel numb and tired.

• Chris Emery : Just a minute. What makes you think you can rush in here and talk to me like this? What do you know about me?

  Steve Emery : I just have to look at you to know what happened. I can see how Neil fell for a dame like you and I know the type of time you gave him.

• Dominique : No one can live on grief. Yesterday is yesterday. Tomorrow is tomorrow.

  Chris Emery : You left out today.

  Dominique : Today is already yesterday.

• Dominique : I shock you, perhaps. When one day is over, another day begins.

  Chris Emery : West Indian proverb?

  Dominique : West Indian household hint.

• Max Fabian : I'll be leaving Trinidad as soon as my affairs here are settled. And, I was hoping...

  Chris Emery : Affairs? Why, I thought you were a man of leisure?

  Max Fabian : I could be, if it would please you.

• Steve Emery : Why didn't you tell me you had a date with Fabian?

  Chris Emery : I meant to! But, I forgot.

  Steve Emery : You forgot a lot of things. You forgot to tell me he was a friend of your's as well as Neil's. That he bought Neil's paintings. Did you also forget to tell me that he bought Neil's wife?

• Chris Emery : Love is something that has to be kept alive. It wasn't.

• Steve Emery : [last lines - they're on a passenger ship, leaving Trinidad]  Taking a last look at Trinidad? You know, you're gonna' find Chicago kinda' cold after the tropics.

  Chris Emery : Am I?