The Golden Coach (1952)

Duncan Lamont: Ferdinand, Le Viceroy

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• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : What do you want Martinez?

  Martinez : Your Highness, the coach is just crossing the palace square.

  Marquise Irene Altamirano : The coach?

  Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : My new coach.

  Martinez : The Saint Anna docked early this morning. The coach has been carefully loaded onto an ox cart, and remains only to have the horses harnessed, the wheels mounted...

  Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : And the bill paid.

• Marquise Irene Altamirano : Your Highness should come and look.

  Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : Oh, is it really as splendid as all that, this coach?

  Marquise Irene Altamirano : Beautiful! Exquisite! Breathtaking! It glitters so I can hardly look at it.

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : That's what I enjoyed about these Italians. I couldn't understand a word they say, so, I just presume the dialog was excellent.

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : Mademoiselle, what is your name?

  Camilla : Colombine on the stage, Your Highness. In life, Camilla.

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : I must confess, in this heat, a wig is absolute torture.

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : Thank you. It's a rare occasion when I'm able to laugh like this.

  Camilla : Why? You should all be so happy - you're laden with gold.

  Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : That's it. That's the point. We're here only for this treacherous gold. No one dreams of anything else. And where gold commands, laughter vanishes. If you had a gold mine here, you too would stop laughing.

  Camilla : No, no. Never!

  Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : If you did find one, what would you do?

  Camilla : Buy a beautiful golden coach - just as you did.

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : We highly civilized people, so called, no longer have the energy to feel such a simple emotion, I'm afraid. An ordinary man becomes sentimental when his sweetheart betrays him. He beats her. Cries. Tears his hair out. Does a bit of knifing. All this is so noisy and untidy. Far too tiring.

• Camilla : Can they be learned?

  Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : What?

  Camilla : All those nice little tricks. Your ease. The way you dismiss everything feel is so important.

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : The weaker sex have that extraordinary talent of completely adapting themselves. Give her a good manicure and, perhaps, a dancing master that knows his business, and, of course, a lover of suitable rank, with these, and a gifted woman, one can create the most arrogant of duchesses.

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : Never forget, my dear, that every woman is an Empress. Any man, no matter how high is rank is, is always her servant.

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : Now, I can love you like an ordinary man.

  Camilla : You love me like a man. Can I love - like a real woman?