Rain (1932)

Walter Huston: Alfred Davidson

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• Sadie Thompson : You low-down skunk! What have you been telling the Governor about me?

  Alfred Davidson : I've been hoping to have another talk with you, Miss Thompson.

  Sadie Thompson : Why you miserable snail-snatcher! I wouldn't talk to you if you and me were the only two people left on earth. Why, you're so doggone mean it makes me sick even to look at ya! That's what I think of you! Coming to me with all that guff you spill about salvation. Then, goin' and havin' me deported on top of it! Why, you low lizard - !

• Alfred Davidson : The devil in you is strong, my poor Sadie Thompson. Evil has claimed you as its own.

  Sadie Thompson : You take care of your own evil and I'll take care of mine!

• Alfred Davidson : From now on you will be strong. There is to be no more fear. Radiant... beautiful... you will be one of the daughters of the King. That's what you are now, Sadie, one of the daughters of the King... radiant... beautiful.

• Alfred Davidson : You will be glad to hear that the Governor has acted, at last. He's a weak man. For days he had shilly-shallied, saying it was none of his concern.

• Alfred Davidson : Hello, Miss Thompson. What are you up for?

  Sadie Thompson : I couldn't sleep. With this rain and those drums. And, then, thinkin' about tomorrow. I don't seem to be able to do much for myself, do I?

• Alfred Davidson : You've got to go back to San Francisco!

  Sadie Thompson : Straight orders from your private heaven, huh? Oh, no, Mr. Davidson. your god and me could never be shipmates. And the next time you talk to him, you can tell him this for me, that Sadie Thompson is on her way to hell!