Cape Fear (1991)
Nick Nolte: Sam Bowden
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Quotes
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Max Cady : I'm Virgil and I'm guidin' you through the gates of Hell. We are now in the Ninth Circle, the Circle of Traitors. Traitors to country! Traitors to fellow man! Traitors to GOD! You, sir, are charged with betrayin' the principles of all three! Quote for me the American Bar Association's Rules of Professional Conduct, Canon Seven.
Sam Bowden : "A lawyer should represent his client... "
Max Cady : "Should ZEALOUSLY represent his client within the bounds of the law." I find you guilty, counselor! Guilty of betrayin' your fellow man! Guilty of betrayin' your country and abrogatin' your oath! Guilty of judgin' me and sellin' me out! With the power vested in me by the kingdom of God, I sentence you to the Ninth Circle of Hell! Now you will learn about loss! Loss of freedom! Loss of humanity! Now you and I will truly be the same...
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Sam Bowden : He says we're fugitives!
Danielle : What does that mean?
Sam Bowden : That means we're doing something right!
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Max Cady : So, here we are, two lawyers for all practical purposes talking shop.
Sam Bowden : How much do you want, Mr. Cady?
Max Cady : How much do I want what?
Sam Bowden : How much money do you want?
Max Cady : Money? Counselor, do I look destitute to you?
Sam Bowden : Well I'm open to discussion within reasonable limits.
Max Cady : You ever been a woman?
Sam Bowden : What?
Max Cady : A woman... some fat, hairy hillbilly's wet dream.
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Sam Bowden : Because I knew he brutally beat and raped her!
Max Cady : Talk... TO ME! I'm Right HERE!
[hits Sam in the face]
Sam Bowden : Just because she was promiscuous... didn't give YOU THE RIGHT TO RAPE HER! But YOU BRAGGED about how you beat TWO prior rapes... you were a menace!
Max Cady : [Screams] YOU WERE MY LAWYER... you were my lawyer! That report could've saved me FOURTEEN YEARS!
Sam Bowden : [begrudgingly] You're probably right.
Max Cady : [Disgusted] YOU SELF-RIGHTEOUS FUCK!
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Sam Bowden : [they first meet - Sam is about to start his car when suddenly a hand reaches in and snatches the keys. It's Max Cady!]
Max Cady : [smiling] Free as a bird. You go wherever you want with whomever.
Sam Bowden : I'd like my keys back, please.
Max Cady : Could it be you don't remember me?
Sam Bowden : I remember you. You were at the movies the other night.
Max Cady : I'm disappointed. I'm hurt.
Sam Bowden : I would like my keys.
Max Cady : Max Cady. You look the same. Maybe 15 pounds heavier. But they say the average man gains a pound a year till he's about... Come on. Gains a pound a year till he's about 60. Me? I dropped a pound every year in my sentence.
Sam Bowden : Atlanta. July 1977?
Max Cady : You got it.
[looks at keys and adds]
Max Cady : Fourteen years since I held a set of keys.
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Sam Bowden : I know how the dog died.
Leigh Bowden : Sam, are you dreaming?
Sam Bowden : No, no, I just had the weirdest feeling that he
[Cady]
Sam Bowden : was already in the house.
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Sam Bowden : My wife found some marijuana in one of Danni's schoolbooks, we don't know if Cady gave it to her, but she's scared and won't talk to us, now this has gone far enough.
Claude Kersek : Did you call the police?
Sam Bowden : No I didn't call the police, what did you call them? Slow, slobbery, skeptical...
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Lieutenant Elgart : So what happened, your wife let the dog out and Cady abducted him and...
Sam Bowden : No, my wife didn't let the dog out.
Lieutenant Elgart : So he came into the house? Now that's illegal entry...
Sam Bowden : No, he didn't come into the house either. Now look, I'm not a cop, I don't know how he did it, all I know is that he DID it.
