North by Northwest (1959)

Martin Landau: Leonard

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• Leonard : You must have had some doubts about her yourself. You still do.

  Phillip Vandamm : Rubbish.

  Leonard : Why else would you have decided not to tell her that our little treasure here has a belly full of microfilm?

  Phillip Vandamm : You seem to be trying to fill mine with rotten apples.

  Leonard : Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms.

  Phillip Vandamm : The truth? I've heard nothing but innuendos.

  Leonard : Call it my woman's intuition, if you will. But I've never trusted neatness. Neatness is always the result of deliberate planning.

• Phillip Vandamm : What possessed you to come blundering in here like this? Could it be an overpowering interest in art?

  Roger Thornhill : Yes, the art of survival.

  Eve Kendall : He followed me here from the hotel.

  Leonard : He was in your room?

  Roger Thornhill : Sure. Isn't everybody?

• Leonard : You're not taking her on the plane with you?

  Phillip Vandamm : Of course I am. Like our friends, I too believe in neatness, Leonard. This matter is best disposed of from a great height, over water.

• [Thornhill and Vandaam meeting each other for the first time in Townsend's office, where Vandaam has stolen his identity; they both size each other up silently] 

  Phillip Vandamm : Good evening.

  [beat] 

  Phillip Vandamm : Not what I expected. A little taller, a little more polished than the others...

  Roger Thornhill : Well, I'm so glad you're pleased, Mr. Townsend!

  Phillip Vandamm : But I'm afraid just as obvious.

  Leonard : What the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here?

  Phillip Vandamm : Games? Must we?

  Roger Thornhill : Not that I mind a slight case of abduction now and then, but I do have tickets to the theatre tonight, and a show I was looking forward to and I get, well, *unreasonable* about things like that.

  Phillip Vandamm : With such play-acting, you make this very room a theatre.

  [Leonard, Vandaam's co-conspirator, enters] 

  Phillip Vandamm : Ah, Leonard. Have you met our distinguished guest?

  Leonard : He's a well-tailored one, isn't he?

  Phillip Vandamm : My secretary is a great admirer of your methods, Mr. Kaplan. Elusive, however misguided...

  Roger Thornhill : Wait a minute. Did you call me "Kaplan"?

  Phillip Vandamm : Oh, I know you're a man of many names, but I'm perfectly willing to accept your current choice.

  Roger Thornhill : "Current choice"? My name is Thornhill - Roger Thornhill! It's never been anything else!