Logan's Run (1976)
Peter Ustinov: Old Man
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Old Man : [paraphrasing T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"] The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it's not just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter, when I tell you that each cat's got three different names.
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Logan : They lived together? All their years?
Old Man : Yeah. Oh, well, before I come along, I don't know what. But, after, I, oh yes. They did.
Jessica : So, people stayed together for this feeling of love? They would live and raise children and be remembered?
Old Man : Yeah. Raised me, didn't they? Right in there. Yeah.
Jessica : I think I'd like that, Logan. Don't you?
Logan : Why not?
Jessica : Beloved husband.
Logan : Beloved wife.
Old Man : Beloved son.
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Jessica : Look at his face and his hair. Is that what it is to grow old?
Old Man : Well, I guess so. Yes.
Logan : How old are you?
Old Man : I'm as old as I am, I suppose.
Logan : Your hair is - your hair is white?
Old Man : Yeah. Well, it wasn't always that color. I got my color someplace here. It wasn't your color and it wasn't much like her's either.
Jessica : Those cracks, on your face, do they hurt?
Old Man : No.
Jessica : Can I touch them?
Old Man : Oh, my! Try.
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Old Man : Nothin' sadder than a dead fish.
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Logan : Well, has, uh, anyone else ever passed through here?
Old Man : No. Oh, there may be a few out there. I don't know. No, I don't know.
Logan : What makes you think that?
Old Man : Well, my parents told me. My mother... and my, you know, the... um, father.
Logan : You knew your mother and father?
Old Man : Sure. They raised me. Uh, you know... They raised me.
Jessica : How were you grown? Inside your mother?
Old Man : Right in there.
Jessica : Are you sure?
Old Man : Well, that's what she told me. I have to, I have to believe her. I don't know.
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[repeated line]
Old Man : Oh my!
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Logan : Who are you?
Old Man : Who are you?
Logan : I'm Logan 5. This is Jessica 6.
Old Man : Well, I never much cared for my name, even when I could remember it.
Jessica : We're from the city.
Logan : Yes. Yes, we came through the ice. We got past Box.
Old Man : Box?
Jessica : This is Sanctuary, isn't it?
Old Man : Sanctuary?