The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986 TV Movie)

George C. Scott: Auguste Dupin

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• Auguste Dupin : [awakened while playing chess]  Oh, dear!

  [clears his throat and looks at the board] 

  Auguste Dupin : Did I miss that? Am I losing my concentration as well as everything else?

  [laughs] 

  Claire Dupin : You were asleep, Father?

  Auguste Dupin : That's no excuse for incompetence. I used to be able to sleep and think at the same time.

  [laughs ironically and then adds introspectively] 

  Auguste Dupin : I was famous for it.

• Auguste Dupin : Nothing comes before chess, my dear. Haven't I taught you anything?

• Phillipe Huron : Have you thought about him?

  Auguste Dupin : And that's when I said he would not have stood for it. Suppose that unlike me,

  Auguste Dupin : [Clearing his throat]  he would not have allowed himself to be pensioned off without a battle.

  Phillipe Huron : My thought precisely. I'm sorry, Gust.

  Auguste Dupin : Don't feel badly. I often wonder why I accepted it without a fight. I've seemed to have lost all stamina - all forcefulness. Ted, my boy, you don't know what it's like not having a job without work.

  Auguste Dupin : [Angrily]  The humiliation! The uselessness! The fear of not having a roof over your family's head! And the rage! The absolutte powerless rage!

  Auguste Dupin : [He sees his daughter enters the room and composes himself]  Excuse me.

• Auguste Dupin : For 42 years I went into battle with every case that was put before me. The solution of a crime made my blood pump. I thought it was my reason for living. Nothing came before my work. Nothing! When my wife died, I was out sorting for buttons from a dead man's shirt. I never regretted it. Never once! I had a higher calling. An honorable cause. The public trust! Hmmm. I thought it was my life. I let it become my life, and I'm a fool because of it! I can no more consult with you than apologize to the dead.