1940s British Films

"Ralph Byrd as Durgaived"

"Faith Brook as English girl"

"Noble Johnson as Sikh"

"When I was fifteen I spun a coin. Tails, home girl, cooking and knitting. Heads, adventure. Heads it was!"

"Robert Montgomery — Craig the Butler"

"Phil Ray — Tom Cawler"

"Ross Landon — John Selford"

"Harry Hutchinson — Bevan Cody"

"Aubrey Mallalieu — Lord Charles Francis Selford"

"JH Roberts — Luis Silva"

"Cathleen Nesbitt — Ann Cody"

"Richard Bird — Inspector Sneed"

"David Horne — Edward Havelock"

"Gina Malo — Glenda Baker"

"Romilly Lunge — Dick Martin"

"Lilli Palmer — June Lansdowne"

"Leslie Banks — Dr. Manetta"

"Insp. Cornelius 'Andy' Sneed: Women are like tiger cats. They ought to be caged at sixteen and shot at twenty!"

"If I go calling on corpses, I pick a sunny day for it!"

"I love frolicking in morgues."

"Don't forget, a great impression of simplicity can only be achieved by great agony of body and spirit."

"Esmond Knight - Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne"

"Ludmilla Tchérina - Irina Boronskaja"

"Albert Bassermann - Sergei Ratov"

"Robert Helpmann - Ivan Boleslawsky"

"Léonide Massine - Grischa Ljubov"

"Anton Walbrook - Boris Lermontov"

"Marius Goring - Julian Craster"

"Moira Shearer - Vicky Page"

"A Dancing, Singing, Swinging Love Tale"

"Dance she did, and dance she must - between her two loves."

"Between her art ... and her dreams ... was her heart."

"Miss Page is unable to dance tonight, nor indeed any other night."

"[to Vicky] Sorrow will pass, believe me. Life is so unimportant. And from now onwards, you will dance like nobody ever before."

"[to Julian] It is worth remembering, that it is much more disheartening to have to steal than to be stolen from, hmmm?"

"You cannot have it both ways. A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never."

"One day when I'm old, I want some lovely young girl to say to me, "Tell me, where in your long life, Mr. Caster, were you most happy?" And I shall say, 'Well, my dear, I never knew the exact place. It was somewhere on the Mediterranean. I was with Victoria Page." "What?" she will say. "Do you mean the famous dancer?" I will nod. "Yes, my dear, I do. Then she was quite young, comparatively unspoiled. We were, I remember, very much in love.""