Condemned! (1929)

Ronald Colman: Michel

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• Michel : The question is: What becomes of a man here?

• Madame Vidal : Here, let me have those things. That's a woman's work, not a man's.

  Michel : Whatever it is, it's my work Madame. Anyway, I'm not a man, I'm a convict.

• Madame Vidal : Oh, Michel, my husband doesn't mean it. He just - doesn't think.

  Michel : Have you noticed that too, Madame?

• Michel : What do you remember about France, Madame?

  Madame Vidal : Oh, I just remember my little village in Alsace.

  Michel : I've never been to Alsace.

  Madame Vidal : No?

  Michel : No, there wouldn't be much there for a thief to steal.

• Michel : Tell me about your village, Madame.

  Madame Vidal : All life was very pleasant there. Peaceful and safe. There's a little square, just like any other, where the young people walk and make love in the evening.

• Madame Vidal : Poor convicts. Prison! Everywhere you look here, prison! Don't you ever think of getting away from here? Across the sea? Back home?

  Michel : If you mean escape, no, Madame, I do not.

  Madame Vidal : If I were a prisoner, I'd escape.

  Michel : No, you'd get caught.

  Madame Vidal : I'd try, just the same. I'd die trying! Well, that wasn't a nice thing for me to say to you.

  Michel : Why shouldn't you say it? After all, you're just as much a prisoner as I am?

• Michel : Well, now that we've started...

  Madame Vidal : Started?

  Michel : Yes. Haven't we started? Who would have thought we had so much to say.

  Madame Vidal : No, monsieur. There are somethings that better not be said.

• Michel : If you were a prisoner, you'd escape, you said.

  Madame Vidal : There are some prisons I can't escape from.

• Michel : [speaking to himself]  You are a convict. She is the warden's wife. Don't be a fool!

• Jean Vidal : You tell me the truth if you know what's good for you!

  Michel : Ah, let's go back and get our beauty sleep.

  Jean Vidal : Did you or did you not give my wife a monkey?

• Michel : O-O-O-O. I wouldn't ask that if I were you.

  Jean Vidal : Why not?

  Michel : Because your mother wouldn't be proud of her little boy, thinking such nasty thoughts about a lady.

• Jean Vidal : What did you do before you took up robbing banks?

  Michel Oman : Robbed easier places.

  Jean Vidal : And before that?

  Michel Oman : Pickpocket.

  Jean Vidal : Always a thief?

  Michel Oman : No - only since I learned to walk.

• Jacques Duval : Aggh! You've spoiled the softest berth a convict ever had, that's what you done.

  [pauses] 

  Jacques Duval : You weren't sent here to give no monkeys to ladies.

  Michel : Ahh, women! You and I both'd be angels if it weren't for women.

  [peers closely at Jacques] 

  Michel : At least I would.

  Jacques Duval : Oh, I'd be a law-abiding respectable citizen if it weren't for women... with a large family, too.

  Michel : Yes, you'd need women for the family. Awww, let's go to bed.

  Jacques Duval : [sensing Michel's frustration]  Careful, Michel. Careful.