Cornered (1945)

Walter Slezak: Melchior Incza

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• Melchior Incza : Senor, I suspect that you were a very fine flyer and before that perhaps a promising shoe salesman, but you're a gross amateur at intrigue. You cannot expect to catch a trout by shouting at it from the riverbank proclaiming that you're a great fisherman. You need a hook with feathers on it.

• Laurence Gerard : What are you, French or German?

  Melchior Incza : I'm an epicure.

  [He offers Gerard food] 

  Laurence Gerard : No, thanks.

  Melchior Incza : A camp follower of culture. My blood is a mixture of excellent European vines. My ancestots have always been less interested in a woman's nationality than the quality of her complexion.

• Melchior Incza : There are still one or two good things left in this sordid world if one knows where to look for them. I'm afraid, however, that the quality of the liquor is holding up better than the quality of the women. You an American?

  Laurence Gerard : No.

  Melchior Incza : Good. I find Americans a little abrupt in their approach to both subjects.