The Unholy Night (1929)

Claude Fleming: Sir James Rumsey

Quotes 

• Sir James Rumsey : Wasn't it you who screamed?

  Polly, the maid : I never scream unless a fella gets gay with me.

• Lord 'Monte' Montague : As I was crawling through the fog, just before I was attacked, you know, I heard an odd sort of tapping noise.

  Sir James Rumsey : Tapping noise?

  Lord 'Monte' Montague : Yes.

  Sir James Rumsey : Well, can't you describe it more accurately than that?

  Lord 'Monte' Montague : No. I paid no attention to it at the time. It sounded as though it were getting louder, as if it were coming nearer to me, you know. It had a regular beat like - like the ticking of the alarm clock in stomach of Peter Pan's crocodile.

  Sir James Rumsey : This is hardly the time to discuss Peter Pan.

  Lord 'Monte' Montague : Oh, I don't know. Charming play.

• Lord 'Monte' Montague : His ghost is distinguished from all other ghosts, by the fact that he's green.

  Sir James Rumsey : Green? I thought ghosts were always white.

  Lord 'Monte' Montague : Yes. All ghosts, but, our ghosts. You see, Sir Roger, the old wretch, died of some nasty disease like - spinach, which turned him quite green.

• Sir James Rumsey : There's something plainly pathological at the bottom of this case.

• Lord 'Monte' Montague : I think we must be getting a little nervous.

  Sir James Rumsey : Nervous? I'm never nervous.

  Lord 'Monte' Montague : Aren't you? I am. I had too much soda, not enough brandy this morning.

• Sir James Rumsey : I'm a teetotaler, thank you.

  Lord 'Monte' Montague : Oh, you shock me. And you've such a nice, kind face, too. When did you take the veil?

• Sir James Rumsey : If the living fail us, then, we must call on the dead to help us.