Lifeboat (1944)
Henry Hull: Charles J. Rittenhouse
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Quotes
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Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : [seeing a bejewelled Connie in a fur coat as he enters the lifeboat] Connie! Did you come from the freighter or the Stork Club?
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John Kovac : As of now I'm skipper, and anybody who don't like it can get out and swim to Bermuda. What about that?
Gus Smith : I'll buy it.
Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett : Suits me. What about you, Miss?
Alice MacKenzie : I'm for it.
George 'Joe' Spencer : Yes, sir!
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Well, if the rest agree.
Connie Porter : All right, Commissar, what's the course?
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[while Kovac and Ritt are playing poker, Connie inspects the numerous tattoos on Kovac's chest and arms]
Connie Porter : What are those letters on your diaphragm?
John Kovac : Love letters.
Connie Porter : Oh, you believe in advertising.
John Kovac : Open.
Connie Porter : Never could understand this quaint habit of making a billboard out of one's torso.
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Stay.
John Kovac : Three cards.
Connie Porter : I must say you've shown the most commendable delicacy in just tattooing the initial... not printing the names, addresses and telephone numbers.
John Kovac : Open.
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Nines?
John Kovac : Queens.
Connie Porter : See, how many are there? One, two, three, four, five.
John Kovac : Remind me to show you the rest of them sometime.
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Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : I thought everybody was killed. I never expected to see you alive.
Connie Porter : You know I'm practically immortal, Ritt.
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Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Now, now, now, we're all sort of fellow travelers in a mighty small boat, in a mighty big ocean. And the more we quarrel, criticize and misunderstand each other, the bigger the ocean gets and the smaller the boat.
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Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Well, folks, we're in business again!
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Gus Smith : [sees someone in the water with the hands on the side of the lifeboat] Hey, look. Another customer.
[lifeboat passengers pull him aboard]
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Where did he come from?
Connie Porter : Is he a crew member?
John Kovac : I never saw him before.
George 'Joe' Spencer : Not off our boat.
Willy : [he speaks] Danke schoen.
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John Kovac : What do you say Joe?
George 'Joe' Spencer : [black steward speaks] Do I get to vote too?
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Why, why certainly.
George 'Joe' Spencer : Guess I'd rather stay out of this.
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Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Sparks?
Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett : Yes, Mr. Rittenhouse.
Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Call me: Ritt. We're all in the same boat.
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Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Connie, will you keep the ship's log?
Connie Porter : Righto, Ritto. Providing I control the copyrighting and all publication rights - including the Scandinavian.
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Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Now children, let's keep our shirts on.
John Kovac : I haven't got a shirt. Or, a mink coat either.
Connie Porter : Oh, I get it. A fellow traveler. I thought the Comintern was dissolved.
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Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse : Maybe one of us ought to try to row. Where to? What for?
