The Wolf Man (1941)

Maria Ouspenskaya: Maleva

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• [last lines] 

  Maleva : The way you walked was thorny though no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Now you will have peace for eternity.

  Col. Paul Montford, chief constable : The wolf must have attacked her and Larry came to the rescue. I'm sorry, Sir John.

  Gwen Conliffe : [Dismayed]  Larry!

• Maleva : The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Your suffering is over, Bela my son. Now you will find peace.

• Maleva : You are not frightened, are you, Sir John?

  Sir John Talbot : Frightened, of what?

  Maleva : Of the night.

  Sir John Talbot : Rubbish. You startled me.

  Maleva : Don't be startled, Sir John. You have the silver cane for protection.

  Sir John Talbot : Who are you?

  Maleva : Hasn't your son told you?

  Sir John Talbot : You're the gypsy that's been filling his mind with this werewolf nonsense!

• Maleva : You killed the wolf.

  Larry Talbot : Well, there's no crime in that is there?

  Maleva : The wolf was Bela.

  Larry Talbot : You think I don't know the difference between a wolf and a man?

  Maleva : Bela turned into a wolf and you killed him. A werewolf can only be killed by a silver bullet, or a silver knife...

  [looks down at Larry's walking stick] 

  Maleva : ...or a stick with a silver handle.

  Larry Talbot : You're insane! I tell you, I killed a wolf! A PLAIN, ORDINARY WOLF!

• Sir John Talbot : You've been preying upon his gullibility with your witch's tales.

  Maleva : But you fixed him, didn't you, Sir John? You don't believe the witch's tales, do you?

  Sir John Talbot : Not for a minute.

  Maleva : Then where were you going, Sir John? Why aren't you back there, at the shooting stand?

  Sir John Talbot : I was.

  Maleva : Were you hurrying back to the castle? Did you have a moment's doubt? Were you hurrying to make sure he's all right?

  Sir John Talbot : I wanted to be with my son. I was going back...

  [a rifle fires in the distance] 

  Maleva : Yes, Sir John, you were going. Hurry, Sir John, hurry.

• Maleva : For a thousand years we Gypsies have buried our dead like that. I couldn't break the custom even if I wanted to.

  Rev. Norman : Fighting against superstition is as hard as fighting against Satan himself.

• Maleva : [Larry shows Maleva his chest wound concealed under his shirt]  Go now - and heaven help you!

• Rev. Norman : But my dear Maleva, we can't bury this man without prayer.

  Maleva : There is nothing to pray for, sir. Bela has entered a much better world than this. At least, so your ministers always say, sir.

  Rev. Norman : And so it is. But that's no reason to hold a pagan celebration. I hear your people are coming to town dancing and singing and making merry.

  Maleva : For a thousand years, we Gypsies have buried our dead like that. I couldn't break the custom even if I wanted to.

  Rev. Norman : Fighting against superstition is as hard as fighting against Satan himself.

• Maleva : Go now. And Heaven help you.

• Maleva : Whoever is bitten by a werewolf and lives becomes a werewolf himself.

  Larry Talbot : Ah, don't hand me that. You're just wasting your time.

  Maleva : The wolf bit you, didn't he?

  Larry Talbot : Yeah. Yeah he did!