Too Late for Tears (1949)

Arthur Kennedy: Alan Palmer

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• Alan Palmer : What is it, Jane? I just don't understand you! I've tried to give you everything you wanted, everything I could.

  Jane Palmer : Yes, you've given me a dozen down payments and installments for the rest of our lives.

• Alan Palmer : This money's like poison, it's changing you, it's changing me.

  Jane Palmer : I wish it were that easy, I've always been this way.

• Alan Palmer : Jane, Jane, what's happening to us? The money sits down there in an old leather bag, and yet it's tearing us apart. It's poison, Jane. It's changing you. It's changing both of us.

  Jane Palmer : I wish it were that simple, Allan, but I haven't changed. It's the way I am. You've got to let me keep that money.

  Alan Palmer : Don't, don't, Jane.

  Jane Palmer : No, Allan, I won't let you just give it away. Chances like this are never offered twice. This is it. I've been waiting for it, dreaming of it all my life - even when I was a kid. And it wasn't because we were poor, not hungry poor at least. I suppose, in a way, it was far worse. We were white collar poor, middle-class poor. The kind of people who can't quite keep up with the Joneses and die a little every day because they can't.

• Alan Palmer : Stop it, Jane! If we don't report this, it's a felony. It's the same as stealing. It's a blind alley with a big barred gate at the end!

• Alan Palmer : How much have you spent?

  Jane Palmer : $790, less than one tenth of one percent of all our money.

• Jane Palmer : Hasn't it hit you yet, Alan? The money was literally thrown in our laps. No one in the world knows we have it!

  Alan Palmer : Get ahold of yourself, Jane, will ya'? It's a bag of dynamite. That was a payoff - probably blackmail.