Room at the Top (1958)

Donald Houston: Charles Soames

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• Susan Brown : Gosh, I'm hot!

  Charles Soames : You shouldn't feel hot. You've nothing on.

• Susan Brown : Seriously Joe, there's something wrong, isn't there? Don't you like the way I make love?

  Charles Soames : Oh, I like it very much. It reminds me of a good set of mixed tennis.

• Charles Soames : You're such a honest person. Why the hell do you have to be so honest? Darling, I'm glad you're honest. I love you for it.

• Charles Soames : I don't mind you enjoying, but you don't have to smack your lips so vigorously.

• Charles Soames : Constipated bitch!

• Charles Soames : It's not for you lad.

  Joe Lampton : But I can look, can't I?

  Charles Soames : Not with that you can. There's a law against undressing women in street.

• June Samson : Well Charles how about those reports?

  Charles Soames : Oh, those Stampton reports, now where did I put them? Somewhere in... Have you tried looking under your skirt?

  June Samson : What do you mean?

  Charles Soames : You're sitting on them, love.

• Charles Soames : Look Joe, there's the Top. That's where the money is. Lots of lovely houses up there, you know Joe.

  Joe Lampton : I'll have one of those. I'm going to have the lot.

• Joe Lampton : By the way, what do you do for entertainment around here?

  Charles Soames : Well, there are flicks of course.

• Joe Lampton : It just so happens that I like her.

  Charles Soames : You lust after her, you mean.

  Joe Lampton : No. No-no. It's not that at all. Well, it's - partly that but not just that.

• Joe Lampton : Time I filled you in on the Lampton report on love. I 've got a full proof method for grading women. Partly money, partly background, partly J. Lampton's instinct. Now take Susan Brown.

  Charles Soames : Are you offering her to me?

  Joe Lampton : No, seriously, Susan is grade one on every account.

• Charles Soames : Watch it Joe! Do you want me to drop these unspeakably delicious sausages?

• Susan Brown : Is that what prim Joe wants?

  Charles Soames : No, that's not what Joe wants. You know what Joe wants. It's what all the Joe's want.

  Susan Brown : Oh, Joe.

• Charles Soames : This is only the beginning.

  Alice Aisgill : Please walk away now, darling. Walk away, don't look back. Think of me.