Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Otto Kruger: Jeffrey Garth
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Quotes
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Dr. Garth : You know, this is the first woman's flat I've been in that didn't have at least twenty mirrors in it.
Countess Marya Zaleska : I'm glad you're not your friend, Professor Van Helsing.
Dr. Garth : Why?
Countess Marya Zaleska : He'd probably attach some occult significance to my lack of mirrors.
Dr. Garth : Occult?
Countess Marya Zaleska : Well, I seem to remember an old Hungarian legend that a vampire casts no reflection in a mirror.
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[on the phone]
Dr. Garth : Yes? Dr. Garth speaking. Well who is this? What do you want?
[in a false German accent]
Janet Blake : Please come right away. This is the zoo speaking.
Dr. Garth : The what? The zoo?
Janet Blake : Ja! One of our elephants is seeing pink men!
Dr. Garth : All right. Now listen to me, Janet, this has gone far enough! Well, there's nothing funny about it!I'm in the midst of a very serious...
[Janet hangs up and laughs]
Dr. Garth : HELLO?
[hangs up]
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Dr. Garth : Where's Janet?
Countess Marya Zaleska : Safe... so far.
Dr. Garth : If you've harmed her...
Countess Marya Zaleska : You're not in London now, Dr. Garth, with your police. You're in Transylvania, in my castle.
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Dr. Garth : I'm a psychiatrist, Professor, not a lawyer. I'd do anything in the world to help you, but what?
Prof. Von Helsing : You must convince them of my sanity.
Dr. Garth : If I do that they'll hang you for murder.
Prof. Von Helsing : You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.
Dr. Garth : Talking like that won't help.
Prof. Von Helsing : When you were a student under me in Vienna, Jeffrey, you had a far more open mind.
Dr. Garth : My mind is just as open as it ever was, Professor, but it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstition.
Prof. Von Helsing : Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow? In the history of your own profession, psychiatry, a century ago, hypnosis was looked upon as black magic. Today it is accepted as commonplace, even used in anesthesia. What would have happened to a man a hundred years ago who advanced the present-day theories of the subconscious?
Dr. Garth : Oh, I know, I know.
Prof. Von Helsing : Do you, as an intelligent scientist, dare to dismiss as superstition the principles underlying Tibetan magic, voodooism, thought transference?
Dr. Garth : No.
Prof. Von Helsing : Well, there you are.
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Dr. Garth : Well, strangely enough, Van Helsing takes his vampires quite seriously.
Countess Marya Zaleska : Why not? Possibly there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your psychiatry, Mr. Garth.
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Dr. Garth : Hypnosis, eh?
Countess Marya Zaleska : Something older, and more powerful.
Dr. Garth : Whatever it is, I'll bring her out of it.
Countess Marya Zaleska : Like the other one, who died? Her pulse is weak, Dr. Garth, growing weaker. All your skill cannot help her now. She's under a spell that can be broken only by me... or death.
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Lady Esme Hammond : My dear, how sweet of you to come.
Janet Blake : Don't you know it's very rude to stare at strangers?
Dr. Garth : Thought I'd gotten rid of you for a while.
Janet Blake : Not while there's a dangerous looking brunette like that around.
Lady Esme Hammond : You know, my guests are dying to meet you.
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Countess Marya Zaleska : Dr. Garth, I asked you here tonight because I need your help.
Dr. Garth : As a psychiatrist?
Countess Marya Zaleska : As a man of strength and courage.
Dr. Garth : Well, I'm afraid that places me at a disadvantage.
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Countess Marya Zaleska : Oh, good evening, Miss Blake. Is Dr. Garth here?
Janet Blake : I'm sorry. He's just left.
Countess Marya Zaleska : Oh.
Miss Peabody - Nurse : May I go to supper now, Dr. Garth?
Dr. Garth : Yes, yes, by all means. Go ahead.
Countess Marya Zaleska : Why was it necessary to lie?
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Dr. Garth : Well, at any rate a good tramp over the moors and the smell of the heather may help me forgot London, and case histories of neurotic ladies.
Mr. Graham - Host : Aye, but remember, you're not here to doctor the birds but to shoot them.
Dr. Garth : There's a few "birds" in London I'd like to shoot, and they haven't feathers, either.
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Countess Marya Zaleska : Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?
Dr. Garth : Well, in what way?
Countess Marya Zaleska : Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?
Dr. Garth : No.
Countess Marya Zaleska : There is such a one.
Dr. Garth : Mm-hmm. Well, go on.
Countess Marya Zaleska : Someone... something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.
Dr. Garth : Well, how can I help you?
Countess Marya Zaleska : Use my brain, my will, for an instrument as he has used them, but for release.
Dr. Garth : Your mind has the power to do that.
Countess Marya Zaleska : No.
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Dr. Garth : Now look here. I'm tired of being annoyed after office hours. If you don't stop calling me, I'll come over there and, regardless of your sex, I'll smack you in the nose!
Dr. Beemish - Chief of Staff : But... This is Dr. Beemish!
Dr. Garth : Oh, yes. It's Dr. Beemish now, is it? Well, Doctor, how would you like to go back to the zoo and find a nice, empty cage?
Dr. Beemish - Chief of Staff : I beg your pardon!
[pounding his fist]
Dr. Beemish - Chief of Staff : This is Dr. Beemish of St. Mary's Hospital!
Dr. Garth : Oh... oh, I say, Doctor. I'm profoundly sorry. I... You see, I... what?
Dr. Beemish - Chief of Staff : I've called about Lady Anstruther.
Dr. Garth : Oh.
Dr. Beemish - Chief of Staff : I would like you to go and see her immediately. That is, if you're in condition to do so.
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Janet Blake : Well! You might say, "Good evening."
Dr. Garth : Good evening. What are you doing here? I thought you'd severed all connections with the hospital.
Janet Blake : I changed my mind.
Dr. Garth : I detest vacillating women.
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Countess Marya Zaleska : You're a great doctor. A doctor of minds, of souls. I need you, Dr. Garth. I need you to save my soul.
Dr. Garth : How can you expect me even to listen to you, when you're concealing the truth about yourself?
Countess Marya Zaleska : But I have told you all I can now.
Dr. Garth : You mean, you've told me all you dare.
