A Summer Place (1959)

Arthur Kennedy: Bart Hunter

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• Bart Hunter : As soon as Molly is found - and I'm sure she will be - I suggest you vacate these rooms as swiftly as possible.

  Helen Jorgenson : [incredulously]  Don't tell me that you're on their side!

  Bart Hunter : Let's merely say that I'm not on yours.

• Bart Hunter : Do you and your husband often swim in the raw Mrs Jorgenson?

  Helen Jorgenson : Good heavens no!

  Bart Hunter : Oh, she hasn't lived has she Ken?

  Bart Hunter : Why, there's absolutely nothing like galloping bare bottomed into the sea!

• Sylvia Hunter : He gave me a hope I thought was gone.

  Bart Hunter : [intoxicated]  A hope for what?

  Sylvia Hunter : Happiness.

• Bart Hunter : [Intoxicated]  This'll be painful for you, but you might as well face the truth... the RAW truth. Take... take a good look at your parents, hmm? We've got no more secrets to hide. All the cats are out of the bag: all the scrawling, mangy, obscene, horrible cats of your inheritance. You're the son of a drunkard... and a harlot.

  Johnny Hunter : You're wrong about mother, dad.

  Bart Hunter : Gone to her side, have ya'?

  Johnny Hunter : I'm not taking sides. I just want to marry Molly.

  Bart Hunter : [pauses, then smirks]  Oh, Johnny, stop being a silly sentimentalist. It's stupid! Molly is merely a succulent little wench!

  Johnny Hunter : She's not a wench! She's everything I've ever dreamed of in a girl.

  Bart Hunter : Oh, don't make me laugh! They're all alike in the dark!

  Johnny Hunter : [Taken aback]  You can't make her cheap! You can't do it! In spite of your damned supercilious, intelligent mind. And with or without your consent, we're getting married!

• Bart Hunter : This may sound strange coming from an.. an inebriate... but I have observed that there is a moral law at work in the world.

  Bart Hunter : ... and that sinners pay... in one way or the other.

• Bart Hunter : [addressing Molly and Johnny]  Well... I profoundly hope you do not get married. But if you do, well... maybe life's only a dice game after all.

  Bart Hunter : And if it is, our family's certainly due for a winner.