Crime and Punishment (1935)

Peter Lorre: Roderick Raskolnikov

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• Landlady : Good afternoon. We haven't seen much of you these past two days. Have you been praying or only fasting?

  Roderick Raskolnikov : I've been contemplating life.

  Landlady : You better contemplate the rent! I haven't had a penny out of you in six months! How much longer do you expect me to wait?

• Roderick Raskolnikov : [Looking down at the water]  I wonder how many poor devils have found an answer to their questions down there. If only the dead could ever come back.

  Sonya : They have!

  [goes inside to fetch a book, returns] 

  Sonya : Remember the Raising of Lazarus?

  Roderick Raskolnikov : [Takes Bible, turns it over and hands it back]  Are you happy to have your Bible back?

  Sonya : [excited]  Would you like me to read the Raising of Lazarus?

  Roderick Raskolnikov : [They go inside]  I can't understand you Sonya, how can you continue living like this?

  Sonya : I believe in God.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : What have you or I to hope for out of life?

  Sonya : Don't take away my faith - I need it.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : Don't take away my un-belief - I need that!

• Sonya : I forgot that there was still some kindness in the world. Thank you.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : I forgot there was still some beauty in it.

• Lushin : I may say that I have fairly advanced ideas on the subject of marriage.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : In deed.

  Lushin : I prefer a girl, like your sister, who's experienced poverty. I believe that a wife should always look up to her husband as a benefactor.

• Roderick Raskolnikov : Money!

  [Slams the door in anger] 

  Roderick Raskolnikov : Money! Money! MONEY! Money! Money! Money!

• Roderick Raskolnikov : After all Professor, this is your problem, not mine. You promised to show me your blundering police methods and you certainly have. Sorry, I can't give more assistance. Good luck.

  Insp. Porfiry : Thanks. Why did you call me Professor?

  Roderick Raskolnikov : Because, eh, you profess to know something about crime.

  Insp. Porfiry : Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha...

• Mrs. Raskolnikov : Roderick, where did you get this money?

  Antonya Raskolnikov : Dmitri, where did you get that money?

  Dmitri : Search me? Where did you get it, Roderick?

  Roderick Raskolnikov : All I had to do was ask for it! Take what you want! Lie! Cheat! Bluff! Take life by the throat! Come on, lets go out and celebrate...

• Antonya Raskolnikov : Roderick, I don't think you should talk to the Inspector like that.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : Inspector. Inspect this! No man could have the nerve to commit a murder, then sit in your office, watch you accuse another man and tell you he's not guilty.

• Sonya : I do this almost every night. Come out here and look down at the water. Sometimes the water seems full of stars. And then I feel like I can put this bucket down and pull up a whole pailful of them.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : You're lonely, aren't you?

  Sonya : You are too.

• Insp. Porfiry : I may sound like a preacher, but, the truth remains that there is no prisoner, steel-bound, as a man's conscious. Nothing that we could devise, is as horrible as the torture conscious will inflict on a man. Conscious, day-and-night, waking-and-dreaming.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : Take your hands off me!

• Roderick Raskolnikov : [seeing Sonya searching for something a the bottom of the stair]  What did you lose?

  Sonya : [referring to the pawnbroker]  A ruble. It dropped out of my hand when she pushed me out of the door.

  Roderick Raskolnikov : [with bitternes]  Someone ought to push her into the next world!

• Insp. Porfiry : [to Roderick]  How long do you think you can keep up this pretense? Forever? For all eternity?

  Roderick Raskolnikov : You're wasting your time.

  Insp. Porfiry : Then I'm afraid I'll have to send an innocent man to Siberia - vety likely to his death. It's not my doing after all - it's yours. I don't know how you feel about it, but it's a worse crime than the other in its way, more cold-blooded and fiendish. A Napoleon might be able to carry it off, but you're not a Napoleom, my friend. Not hard enough. I'm sorry for you. I wouldn't be in your place for anything in the world.