"Sergeant Spearman, you are positively glutinous with self-approbation."
Anyone else?
That is my favorite, and the writer-creator of the 80's show "Thirtysomething" (a big Hitchcock fan) had a character use it without "Sergeant Spearman," on an episode of the show.
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I'll throw in the great, great curtain line:
"Mr. Rusk....you're not wearing your tie."
yes--good line. Loved the inspector. How about Rusk: "The police, as usual, have the whole thing ass about face".
shareRusk has a meaningful line(in general) I thought, that I believe was written by Oscar Wilde:
"You know what they say, home is where, when you have to go there...they have to take you in."
Meaningful. And Rusk further notes "That's what my mother always used to say."
Hmm..
Rusk quotes his mother more sexually/ominously quoting Mae West:
"Beuleah...peel me a grape. That's what my mother always used to say."
Hitchcock was asked why Rusk used a line from Oscar Wilde. What was the meaning TO Rusk?
Hitchcock replied: "Oh, he probably just heard it somewhere."
Hah.
I just Googled the line, and it turns out that it comes from Robert Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man": ‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there,/
They have to take you in.’
My favourite quote from any Hitchcock movie is when the hotel owners find out the supposed killer is staying in their hotel and the woman says:
"Oh I can't believe it, not in the cupid room!"
How she could possibly keep a straight face delivering that line is beyond me.
The elfin male half of the hotel owners says to his wife something akin to: "I'm telling you, the depths to which masculine urges will sink is sometimes enough to make me heave."
shareThe hotel guys line is matched later on by that of Monica Barling to Inspector Oxford, something like "Some men leave no stone unturned in their search for sexual gratification."
The message I got from these lines is that in 1972 London, we still had some prudish people with real hang-ups about sexual behavior. "Frenzy" takes them up in counterpoint to the maniac Rusk, who cannot control his sexual urges at all. Only perhaps Blaney and Babs afternoon delight at the hotel stands up for "the normality of sex as a pleasurable human endeavor."
Felix Forysthe: A lot of police around here today.
Rusk: I know. It makes it difficult to give short weight.
Mine is, the most chilling line in the film : "Your my type of woman." :-O
share"Christ damn it to hell!" has entered my vernacular when something frustrating happens. Stomping on grapes is optional. :-)
shareThat line made me laugh, I use it often as well! :D Love the delivery, he's so angry, yet it's relatively mild language considering! Especially as the rest of the film has liberal use of B*****d and S**t.
Another favourite line is the inspector calling to his wife over in the kitchen, "MMmm, DELICIOUS!" while pouring the fish soup back into the serving pot
I'd never heard of this expression before watching the movie, and I have to admit it is one of my favorites too.
shareMy favorite line is by Billie Whitelaw: They're listening to a radio, and the description doesn't meet the description of the dark-haired guy. So someone suggested that he go to the police because it can't be him. But then Billie Whitelaw says, "Maybe they just said that as a trap so you'll go to the police." I don't know if those are the exact words, but I love the snappy way she said the line.
shareYes, a fantastic line, really typical of 'Vinegar Joe' however you've missed out the key word which makes this line so great
'Men like this leave no stone unturned in search of their *DISGUSTING* gratification'
Jean Marsh positively ' spits' the word 'disgusting' emphasising and clipping every syllable! A great delivery and touch. Matched by the savage and acidic way Hetty Porter observes that Dick 'always treated her like a *beep* and just like Barbara Leigh-Hunts fantastic raise of the eyebrow when she says 'certain peculiarities' Those little details that make these characters so believe able!
One of the lines I love is practically inaudible, just after the doctor in the pub says foreigners 'somehow expect the streets of London to be fog weaved, full of handsome cabs and littered with ripped whores' we then cut to Dick walking long the street (outside Rusk's flat) and he passes two women, their backs facing the camera walking the opposite way to Dick, as they pass one says to the other 'London's just how I thought it would be!'
After the doctors speech in the pub this tiny, almost missable bit of additional dialogue recording is SPOT ON! Love that moment, has anyone else ever noticed it!?
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When the detective's wife serves him a drink to go with the food from her "gourmet" cooking classes:
It's called a Marguerita. Te- QUILL-ahhhh.....with a rrrrrrrrring of salt arrrrrround the rrrrrrrrrrrim.....
i like when Oxford's wife is explaining what dinner she'd cook for Blaney and the dude goes
"well after prison food.. i suppose he'd eat anything"
loll