Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Laurence Olivier: Superintendent Newhouse
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Quotes
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Newhouse : Bus conductors are rarely observant. They tend to be dreamers, philosophers, that sort of thing. Self protection I suppose.
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Newhouse : Ever heard him read poetry? It's like a Welsh parson gargling with molasses.
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Andrews : I didn't actually see anything in his flat, sir, but he could have gone in and taken the little girl's things any time this morning.
Newhouse : Why should he, I wonder.
Andrews : Bloody pervert, if you want my opinion, sir. Kept on asking Rogers to strike him.
Newhouse : Please, Andrews, he works for the BBC.
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[last lines]
Newhouse : Sleep well. Both of you. Now that you exist.
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Newhouse : I must now, I suppose, enter the personality of a 4-year old female child possessed of a strong conviction that all forbidden doors are to be opened.
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Newhouse : My father was a policeman. Managed to get me into a university. I think he rather wanted me to be a poet. When I told him I wanted to be a policeman like him, he was horrified. You'll have no friends, he said. No single decent human being will want to speak to you from now on. I must say he was perfectly right.
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Newhouse : Somewhere a hymn of nauseating banality is being sung by the punctual children.
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Newhouse : We're not supposed to hit you, Mr. Lake. In return, I must ask you not to hit me. It doesn't prove anything.