Island in the Sun (1957)
Patricia Owens: Sylvia Fleury
Quotes
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Sylvia Fleury : Poor chap - he came out here with such high hopes.
Colonel Whittingham : Well a chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.
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Maxwell Fleury : If I were a woman, I'd prefer Carson to Euan Templeton.
Sylvia Fleury : But, it was Euan all the girls chased after.
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Sylvia Fleury : Please dear, I'm hot and sticky.
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Maxwell Fleury : You seem to know a great deal about him.
Sylvia Fleury : Well, you know the island. A male, young, white, unmarried, titled, and comparatively rich. Good heavens, what else do you think the girls would talk about? Now, darling, you're not jealous are you?
Maxwell Fleury : I could.
Sylvia Fleury : Whatever of?
Maxwell Fleury : Anybody with all those - virtues. That's the penalty for being so much in love with you.
Sylvia Fleury : That's sweet.
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Sylvia Fleury : Maxwell, stop it, you'll tear my dress.
Maxwell Fleury : But, you know, I've never torn a dress of yours.
[aggressively tears Sylvia's dress]
Sylvia Fleury : Take me home.
Maxwell Fleury : Home? Women get bored making love in the same room. A change of scenery helps.
[aggressively kisses Sylvia]
Sylvia Fleury : Stop it!
[he doesn't]
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Maxwell Fleury : Does he still smoke those cigarettes of his?
Sylvia Fleury : What cigarettes?
Maxwell Fleury : You remember those fancy gold-tipped ones that he has made up for him in Cairo. Perhaps that's what *I* need to be more successful with my own wife. A special brand of tobacco.
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Maxwell Fleury : What did you buy?
Sylvia Fleury : A bikini. It's really something, isn't it?
Hilary Carson : Right. You better rope off the beach, old man, when she wears it.
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Sylvia Fleury : Is there anyone you suspect, Colonel Whittingham?
Colonel Whittingham : Now, Mrs. Fleury, you know policemen, they suspect everybody.
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Sylvia Fleury : There's some cold lobster in the refrigerator and a bottle of champagne. We could have it upstairs. Wouldn't you like that?
Maxwell Fleury : I suppose.