Transatlantic (1931)

Billy Bevan: Hodgkins

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• Hodgkins : Good morning, sir! Here we are, bright and early, with all the news of the day, and here's a letter for you, sir.

  Monty Greer : Well, fine, Hodgkins. What's going on?

  Hodgkins : Well, here's something to make your ear curl, sir. Graham Investment Corporation fails to the extent of twenty million dollars. I hope you didn't have any money in that bank, sir.

  Monty Greer : No, Hodgkins. I've been known to draw from the bank, but, uh, I never put anything in.

  Hodgkins : Isn't it marvelous, sir? Here we are, a thousand miles away from anywhere and we still have our finger on the pulse of a great world. As I've always said to Mrs. Hodgkins, "The ship is like a little world." "Time and distance are only relative as Mr. Einstein so humanly puts it. No man lives to himself and no man dieth to himself. We're all like a great big brotherhood and who's one to judge another, not an erring brother. Now, as my favorite author always has said, "There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill behoves any of us to talk about the rest of us", sir.