It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

Donald Curtis: Dr. John Carter

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• Prof. John Carter : Look, Pete, you don't see many women in the Seagoing Navy.

  Cmdr. Pete Mathews : Are you kidding me?

  Prof. John Carter : Oh, shoreside women, sure. But there's a whole new breed who feel they're just as smart and just as courageous as men. And they are. They don't like to be overprotected. They don't like to have their initiative taken away from them.

• [Prof. Carter pulls an octopus from an aquarium tank] 

  Prof. John Carter : Here, gentlemen, is your villain.

  Naval Asst. Sec. Robert David Chase : It would take an enormous number of those to disable a Navy submarine.

  Prof. Lesleyl Joyce : Or just one of enormous size, Mr. Chase.

• [last lines] 

  Cmdr. Pete Mathews : Well, I guess that's it. The sub's been ordered on patrol. We'll be on sea duty for a few months. We'll be seeing you, John.

  Prof. John Carter : Soon, I hope.

  Cmdr. Pete Mathews : Will I be seeing you, Leslie?

  Prof. Lesleyl Joyce : Do you mean when I get back from Cairo?

  Cmdr. Pete Mathews : I mean, women can change, move away, get married, have families.

  Prof. Lesleyl Joyce : Well, there is that possibility; but, uh, A - there isn't time for that to happen to me; B - I can be reached at the school; and C - how would you like to collaborate with me on a book, "How To Catch A Sea Beast"?

  [takes Pete's chin, draws herself to him, and kisses him on the lips] 

  Cmdr. Pete Mathews : Say, doctor, you were right about this new breed of women!

  ["The End" title appears beneath trio as he starts this line, and music increases volume accordingly, partially drowning him out. Fade to black as line finishes] 

• Prof. Lesleyl Joyce : A - you'd want me to miss the opportunity to see this specimen, one that may never come again; B - you'd be making up my mind for me; and C - I not only don't like being pushed around, but you underestimate my ability to help in a crisis.

  Prof. John Carter : My sympathies are entirely on her side.

  Cmdr. Pete Mathews : Didn't take me very long to lose that argument, did it?

• Cmdr. Pete Mathews : Doctor, what kind of a sea beast would be that large? And what do you call it so I can stop calling it It?

  Prof. John Carter : I have no idea.

  Prof. Lesleyl Joyce : Nor have I.