On the Beach (1959)
Anthony Perkins: Lt. Peter Holmes
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Quotes
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Peter : Now, this is a special kind of - - sleeping pill. I had a devil of a time getting 'em. But, I wanted you to have them on hand and to make sure you knew how to use 'em. - - What happens with the radiation is that you get - you get ill - and you start feeling sick and then you are sick and you go on being sick. You can't keep anything down. You may feel better for awhile; but, but it always comes back. You get weaker.
Mary : And this cures it.
Peter : Darling, you know nothing cures it. This ends it.
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Mary : [as she is bent over wearing a bathing suit, Peter snaps a towel on Mary's behind] Peter, how could you!
Peter : Oh, I don't know, really, I just held the towel like this and...
Mary : Very funny.
Peter : You're starting to get your figure back, arent' ya... You know, after Jennifer and all. Little here. A little there.
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Peter : Have you ever been to San Francisco?
Julian Osborne : Yes, I have. A week on the way down. I met a lovely girl. Longest, loveliest legs I've ever seen. Full of martinis - both of them. The legs, I mean.
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Peter : Moira's not a bad notion, point of fact.