After Tonight (1933)

Gilbert Roland: Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter

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• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : If you stay here and keep dry, I'll go out and get wet and see what I can do.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : All I wanted was to get to Vienna. And if you could change this note, I'd be awfully grateful.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Why, of course. But, couldn't you go via Madrid? It's really right on the way - and, eh, I'm going to Madrid.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I'm sure you'll like it. It's a charming place, full of antiquity and, eh, bull fights.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Shall we get aboard then?

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : We? Oh, then you're going to let me travel with you.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Well, I can't think of any way to stop you.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Somehow, I hate to go.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Somehow, I hate to have you.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : I hope you're not going to keep on evading me.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I think I'm being very accommodating. Here I am and there you are.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Yes. But, there you were that night at the station and then in five minutes, there you weren't.

• Maj. Lieber : So, you two know each other.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Know her? Why, I've been madly in love with her for years. Introduce us, will you, Major?

  Maj. Lieber : Introduce you?

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Yes. The name has rather slipped his mind.

  Maj. Lieber : Oh, of course. Fräulein Schöntag allow me to present the man who's been madly in love with you for years, Captain Rudolf Ritter.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : We've got to stop the leaks! Our duty is counter-espionage. I don't care if its your own father, mother, sweetheart, anyone. If you even *think* they're working against us - arrest them. And I want results.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : A clean getaway and very nicely done.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Getting away from a lot of people is easy. Getting away from one is difficult.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Are you still trying to escape?

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I'm trying to remember that someday I might have to - and you're going to make it terribly difficult.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : I'm going to make it impossible. I hope.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : I found all the things I wanted. In you.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : So have I. In you.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Take her out and have her searched.

  Frau Stengel : Oh, this is the last straw! All you men think of nowadays is have excuses to search a woman. Now - don't you touch me or I'll bite your arm off.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Will you forgive me for having you arrested?

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I'd probably forgive you if you'd had me shot.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Darling, we've got to believe in our luck.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Oh, Rudy, when I'm with you, I - oh, why can't you take me away from here? Faraway where no one ever can find us.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Well, I - I might kidnap you.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Could you? I've always wanted to be kidnapped.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : It's going to be lonely till you come back.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Oh, my darling, don't be lonely.

  [standing, presses Rudy's head against her chest] 

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : We'll be together again soon. Think of me as always wanting to come to you. No matter how long I'm kept away. And please, never stop loving me.

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : I once believed that fate was kind.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : But, you see, it isn't. It's laughing at us.

• Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I once knew a man who stole a car with a newly married couple in it.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Did they mind?

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : They never knew. He took them to Oberammergau.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : To the Passion Play?

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : Uh-huh. Of course, that was the last place they wanted to go. But, under the circumstances, one place is just as good as another, don't you think?

• Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : [on the train, leaning in closer to Carla]  I didn't know any Viennese had such lovely hair.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I didn't say I was Viennese, I said I was going to Vienna. Just because a cat gets in an oven there's no sign she's a biscuit.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Oh, then you aren't Viennese.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : I didn't say that either. Perhaps we're fellow townsmen.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : We might even be neighbors.

  Carla Vanirska, aka K-14 and Karen Schöntag : We might even be relatives.

  Capt. Rudolf 'Rudy' Ritter : Heaven forbid. Friends is enough, eh, close enough friends.