The Body Snatcher (1945)

Russell Wade: Donald Fettes

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Quotes 

• Cabman John Gray : I'm a pretty bad fellow myself, but MacFarlane's the boy - Toddy McFarlane I call him. Toddy, order your friend another glass.

  [to Fettes] 

  Cabman John Gray : Toddy hates me.

  Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane : Don't call me by that confounded name.

  Cabman John Gray : Hear him! Did you ever see the lads play knife?

  [thrusts a knife into a loaf of bread] 

  Cabman John Gray : Toddy would like to do that all over my body.

  Donald Fettes : We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him.

• Mrs. Mary McBride : He'll not leave the grave - not since Wednesday last when we buried the lad.

  Donald Fettes : Your son, ma'am? He must have been a fine boy for the wee dog to love him so.

  Mrs. Mary McBride : A great kind lad he was - gentle with all things like Robbie. Now I can't get the dog to leave here. Perhaps it is for the best. I've not money enough to afford a grave watcher.

  Donald Fettes : Not much danger here, ma'am, I wouldn't think - right here in the heart of Edinburgh.

  Mrs. Mary McBride : They're uncommon bold, the grave robbers - and the daft doctors who drive them on.

• Donald Fettes : He taught me the mathematics of anatomy but he couldn't teach me the poetry of medicine.

• [first lines] 

  [Donald sits on a tomb in a graveyard and offers a bit of his lunch to a dog sitting on a nearby grave] 

  Donald Fettes : Here. Here's a bit of something for you.

  [the dog growls angrily] 

  Donald Fettes : Now, now, laddie. I only wanted to be friendly.