Wet Gold (1984 TV Movie)
Brooke Shields: Laura
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Quotes
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Ben Keating, the Diver : I'm not diving unless I get a share.
Laura : This is blackmail, Keating, and I won't stand for it.
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Laura : You know what, Sampson?
Sampson : What?
Laura : Last night I dreamt about gold. I guess I've been listening to too many of your stories.
Sampson : Them weren't stories. Those is real. Listen, I'm the only one that come out alive.
Laura : What happened?
Sampson : It was a hurricane. The waves big as mountains come crashin' down over the bows, sent everything flyin'. And I grabbed hold of a hunk of wood that got tore out of the deck. And the thing crashed and crashed.
Laura : Did somebody find you and rescue you?
Sampson : No. No. I just hung on, till I was washed ashore. I'll tell you somethin': you know we were supposed to be carryin' a load of tin from Bolivia. but what we was *really* carryin' come from the casinos in Cuba. We were sneakin' in a load of gold. It was the Santa Cruz. Ah. I never told that name to no one before, never, never.
Laura : You're telling the truth, aren't you?
Sampson : I got a lot of faults, but I ain't a liar.
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Laura : Just a few people. I invited thirty, forty. Very simple. A little picnic on deck.
Chris Barnes : Come 'ere. Will you come back here?
Laura : What - How about some caviar, darling? Yes, and those little sandwiches. What do you call them? You know, the ones without the crusts?
Chris Barnes : Canapes.
Laura : Canapes. Oh, and champagne. Cases and cases of champagne. My dress. I'll get it all wrinkled before the party.
Chris Barnes : I think you should take it off.
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Sampson : [counting gold bars] Ninety-five. Ninety-six.
Chris Barnes : Ninety-seven.
[They laugh]
Chris Barnes : Laura: your piano!
Laura : But not a rinky-dink out-of-tune piano. *I* want a baby grand. White. Mm! And I wanna travel. London, Paris, I wanna see Italy.
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Laura : We're back! Ben! Sampson's gonna be alright!
Chris Barnes : Hi.
Laura : Give us a hand.
Chris Barnes : I'm glad you're back. You're lookin' a lot better.
Laura : We found a doctor and got some medicine. Where's Keating?
Chris Barnes : You guys must be starving. I'm gonna cook you some eggs.
Laura : Ben! Where is he? Ben!
Chris Barnes : It wasn't my fault, Laura.
Laura : What wasn't?
Chris Barnes : I told him not to go in the water, but... he wouldn't listen. He... wanted to take a swim.
Laura : What are you talking about?
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Laura : Sampson!
Sampson : Hi.
[coughs]
Laura : Are you alright?
Sampson : Who the hell cares?
Laura : What happened? Your eye: somebody beat you up.
Sampson : Yeah, they - they took my stuff: my good pair of shoes.
Laura : Come on. You're coming to my house.
Sampson : Yeah, I need a - drink - cocoa.
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[first lines]
Sampson : There's nothin' in the world like gold, you know that? Nothin' in the world. A gold bar is smooth as skin, and keeps shinin' and shinin'. It's beautiful. It has its own pure color, like nothin' else in this world. And it never rusts. Did you know that? Never! It just keeps shinin' down there. And I'm the only one that knows where it is.
Chris Barnes : [chuckles] Come on.
Laura : Wait!
Chris Barnes : Laura, there's no gold.
Sampson : Shh! I'm the only one.
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Sampson : What are we doin', goin' to the *library*?
Laura : Here it is! July 27th, 1946. Santa Cruz lost at sea. How many men on board?
Sampson : Uh... Twenty?
Laura : Who was the captain?
Sampson : Uh, oh he's a tough old buzzard, uh, he's a Swede... His name was Sorrenson.
Laura : How many survivors?
Sampson : Just me! Maybe - Maybe it says in that paper there was none, you see, because nobody knew about me, and I never told because I knew someday I was goin' back for what was in that hold.
