Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999 TV Movie)
Jamie Bamber: Kennedy
Quotes
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Hornblower : How are you, Archie?
Kennedy : Hungry.
Hornblower : Great, I will have the innkeeper send you some food. Ham and eggs, possibly. Some trout...
Kennedy : Horatio, there is something I have to tell you...
Hornblower : Oh, don't you worry about anything. Let's just get you back your feet, eh?
Kennedy : The duchess isn't a duchess. Cleopatra laying at Mark Antony's feet, maybe. Cleopatra, Macbeth, Gertrude. But she is no duchess.
Hornblower : Archie, what are you talking about?
Kennedy : She is an actress. Her name is Catherine Cobham.
Hornblower : You're mistaken.
Kennedy : No, I'm not. Drury Lane was once my home, and I had saw her performed. Mark my words, Horatio. She is an actress.
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Kennedy : [observing the men] They're planning something, Horatio.
Hornblower : Archie, do you know Spanish?
Kennedy : A little.
[Horatio hands Archie a book written in Spanish and walks off]
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Kennedy : [upon seeing a storm outside]
[faintly]
Kennedy : No walk for you today, Horatio. A pity, you walk with such lovely company.
Hornblower : Do you have a sweetheart in England, Archie?
[no response]
Hornblower : Archie?
[no repsonse]
Hornblower : [more worried] Archie?
[he runs over to Archie and pats his face]
Hornblower : [caling out] Archie!
[runs to the door and bangs on it]
Hornblower : Guard! Guard! Hunter, call for help.
M'Man Hunter : Why?
Hornblower : [races back over to Kennedy, and tries to wake him] Archie? What's happening to him?
M'Man Hunter : Starvation.
Hornblower : We gave him the same rations as ours.
M'Man Hunter : He didn't eat them.
Hornblower : But why?
[pause]
Hornblower : Why didn't you tell me this before?
Don Massaredo : [a few moments later]
[upon seeing Horatio standing in the rain and carrying Archie]
Don Massaredo : What is the meaing of this?
Hornblower : He's dying!
[carries Archie inside and places him in bed]
Hornblower : Archie, why did you do this?
Duchess of Wharfedale : [enters the room] What's happened to him?
Hornblower : [upset] He's been starving himself! And I haven't noticed- I didn't notice because I was carrying on conversations on clifftops.
Kennedy : [seemingly concious, to the Duchess] The crow o' earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war...
Hornblower : Archie, what are you saying?
Duchess of Wharfedale : Sssh... just rest.
Kennedy : Are level now with men; the odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visting moon.
Hornblower : What is he saying?
Duchess of Wharfedale : He's delirious.
Hornblower : No, it wasn't like that. It was from something.
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Hornblower : Archie, I would do the exact same. If I were in this position...
Kennedy : But you're not, and you never would be.