The Paradine Case (1947)

Ann Todd: Gay Keane

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• Gay Keane : I hope you're not so old that you can't admire an attractive woman.

• Gay Keane : Tony's torn him to pieces - it was horrible.

  Judy Flaquer : But darling, you've got to remember, its Tony's job.

• Gay Keane : I wouldn't like a woman to be hanged, any woman, just because my husband had a rendezvous with her. In jail.

  Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense : Oh, Gay.

  Gay Keane : Let's go to bed darling.

• Gay Keane : Well, nice people don't go murdering other nice people.

• Gay Keane : Have you ever realized what a lot you can learn from photographs?

  Sir Simon Flaquer : The social footsteps of time.

• Gay Keane : It's nice to be married to someone who can help others - even save their lives.

• Gay Keane : You have changed, you know, darling. Eleven years ago, you wouldn't have taken on this Paradine case.

  Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense : Oh, well, nonsense. I never turn down a thumping big fee. Then, anymore than now.

  Gay Keane : Oh, you'd have taken it on; but, only after sneering for weeks about the decadence of the rich.

  Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense : I hardly recognize my lost ideals.

• Gay Keane : I remember the first time you called on me, with two tickets for the first night of that show play. Do you remember? You'd forgotten to dress. The look of horror on mother's face when we left the house, it took you five years to forgive that parting look.

  Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense : It took her 50 years to perfect that look.

• Judge Lord Thomas Horfield : You look very, very appetizing tonight, madam.

  Gay Keane : A charming complement from such a gourmet as yourself, Lord Horfield.

• Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense : I was thinking just today, how much fun it would be to go to Italy.

  Gay Keane : Italy? I thought we'd planned on going to Switzerland.

  Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense : I know. But Italy somehow seemed so much more - colourful. Might go back to Venice. You know, get in a gondola.

  Gay Keane : Darling.

  Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense : What's the matter? What's so amusing?

  Gay Keane : Nothing. I can't imagine anything more wonderful than being in a gondola again with you.

• Gay Keane : It's getting late, darling. Time we're in the gondola.

• Gay Keane : Judy, darling, just because a man, a husband, fancies some other woman, you don't treat him as a criminal.

  Judy Flaquer : You don't.

  Gay Keane : I doubt if you would either. It's very painful, but it's painful for him too. He's very fond of me, and I'd like to keep him so.

  Judy Flaquer : Even if it means letting him go?

  Gay Keane : No, simply by not making him suffer too much for hurting me. After all, I don't own him. I only love him.

• Gay Keane : I won't deny that there've been moments when I've wished the worst for her. It's not easy to face the thought of - losing you. We've been really married. Really truly married. As few people have been. Yes, I've lain awake alone, night after night, and I've been tempted to pray that she - But I've come to a conclusion, Tony. I want her to live. I want very much for her to live. And I hope she gets free, scot free. Free to kill. Or, to take other husbands or do anything that comes into that beautiful head of hers.

  Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense : But, I don't understand. You can't really care what happens to her.

  Gay Keane : But I do, I care very much. Not for any noble reasons. I do hate her. But because I want this to be over and done with and an end to your being all mixed up, part lawyer, part lover.

  Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense : What nonsense! Nonsense.

  Gay Keane : All right. Frustrated lover then!

• Gay Keane : You're not finished with me. You wouldn't have come back home today if you were. I've seen your torture and I've loved you all the more for letting it torture you. I know the depth of your feelings for me.

  Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense : Yes, Gay.

  Gay Keane : I know it and I'm counting on it. All I ask is that she lives so the fight can be an even one. Because, if she dies you're lost to me forever. I know you'll go on thinking that you love her. You'll go on imagining her as your great lost love. May I tell you something Tony? You don't love her. No, you don't. I may not be the cleverest woman in the world. There are lots of things I don't know. But there's one thing I know better than anyone else. I know you.

• Judge Lord Thomas Horfield : That's a charming ruby. Tell me, did your husband earn all of that whacking away at jurists?

  Gay Keane : Lady Horfield was admiring it too. It pleased me so much, because she has such excellent taste... in most things.

  Judge Lord Thomas Horfield : Hey Keane. I'm afraid your wife is wearying of me. Pity. Pity.