Journey Into Fear (1943)

Joseph Cotten: Howard Graham

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• Prof. Haller : Won't you join me, Mr. Graham? I'm just getting some fresh air.

  Howard Graham : Oh.

  Prof. Haller : [standing at the ship's railing, looking into the distance]  To see the land from a ship, or to see a ship from the land, I used to like both. Now I dislike both. When a man reaches my age, he grows, I think, to resent subconsciously the movement of everything except the respiratory muscles which keep him alive. Movement is change. And to an old man, change means death.

• Kopeikin : [seeing Graham off at the dock]  Oh, by the way, have you a gun in your luggage?

  Howard Graham : I haven't got any luggage!

  Kopeikin : [pulls a loaded revolver from his coat]  Then, uh, you better take this. I picked it up on my way to see your wife. It is completely loaded.

  Howard Graham : What did she say?

  Kopeikin : [hands the gun to Graham]  Here.

  Howard Graham : Well, I don't need this!

  Kopeikin : Put it in your pocket. It will make you feel nicer to have it.

  Howard Graham : I never fired one of these things, you know?

  Kopeikin : [laughs]  That's a good one, Howard. You are a ballistics expert, and you never fired a gun.

  Howard Graham : Well, I just never did.

  Kopeikin : It's very simple. You just point it and pull the trigger.

  Howard Graham : Oh, I know how it works.

  Kopeikin : Take it with you anyway.

• Howard Graham : Oh, I don't know. That's quite a decision!

  Colonel Haki : Graham, I'm not asking you to decide anything, I'm telling you what you must do.

• Prof. Haller : He interests me, this Kuvetli. He has a way of talking without saying anything.

  Howard Graham : Maybe it's got something to do with his being a salesman.

• Matthews : Has your wife got a bad temper, Mr. Graham?

  Howard Graham : No, very good.

  Matthews : You're lucky. For years I lived in misery. Then one day I made a great discovery. There was a socialist meeting and I went to it. I wasn't a socialist, understand, I went to this meeting because I was curious. The speaker was good. Then a week later we went out with some friends, and I repeated what I heard. My wife laughed in a very peculiar way, and when I got home, I made a discovery. I found out my wife was a snob, and even more stupid than I dreamed. She said that I humiliated her by saying such things as if I believed them. And all her friends were respectable people, and I mustn't speak as if I was a working man. She wept! Then I knew that I was free. Mr. Graham, I bought books and pamphlets to make my arguments more damaging. My wife became very docile. She even cooked things I liked, just so I wouldn't disgrace her.

  Howard Graham : I see. So, you don't believe these things you say?

  Matthews : No. That's where my little joke comes in. Mr. Graham, for awhile I was free, then a terrible thing happened. I found I began to believe these things that I said. These books I read showed me that I'd found a truth. I, a capitalist by instinct, became a socialist by conviction. Worse than that, there was a strike at the factory, and I, the manager, supported the strikers! I didn't belong to a union, naturally, and so I was dismissed. It was ridiculous! So here I am. I've become a man in my home at the price of becoming a bore outside.

• Howard Graham : I'd better get on back to the hotel.

  Kopeikin : You might take a shine to Josette! After all, this little girl is very stupid. Of course Josette is stupid too, but she has it!

• Colonel Haki : You can cable her when you stop at Trabzon. "C'est la guerre."

  Howard Graham : What?

  Colonel Haki : War is war.

• Prof. Haller : My name is Haller, Dr. Fritz Haller.

  Howard Graham : Mine is Howard Graham.

  Prof. Haller : I should explain I am a German. A good German of the former Germany. I am on my way back to Tehran. I am travelling on a League of Nations passport.

• Howard Graham : You've been long in Turkey?

  Prof. Haller : A few weeks. I came there from Persia.

  Howard Graham : Oil?

  Prof. Haller : No, Mr. Graham. Archaeology.

  Howard Graham : Oh.

  Prof. Haller : I was investigating the early pre-Islamic cultures. Forgive me, I am boring you already.

• Howard Graham : A man on this boat is here for the express purpose of murdering me.

  [Translator and Ship's Captain laugh] 

  Howard Graham : I am not crazy!

  Translator for Ship's Captain : No, not at all, Monsieur. Now what's his name?

  Howard Graham : Banat. B-A-N-A-T.

• Josette Martel : Gogo will do it.

  Howard Graham : Gogo?

  Josette Martel : I will not have to tell Gogo anything about you. Gogo will play cards with him.

  Howard Graham : Will Gogo ask him?

  Josette Martel : I will tell Gogo that I saw this man open a wallet with a lot of money in it. Gogo will see that he plays cards. You don't know Gogo.

• Prof. Haller : I thought I had better keep this for Mavrodopoulos.

  Howard Graham : Banat! Banat's easier to say.

• Howard Graham : I'll be killed if I accept his proposal and I'll be killed if I don't.

• Mrs. Stephanie Graham : But darling, what happened to you? Where have you been?

  Howard Graham : I'll tell you all about it in the tub. What I need is a good hot bath.

• [first lines] 

  [in an Istanbul hotel room, Banat prepares to go out at night and takes a pistol from his bed, momentarily pausing to move a gramophone needle from a broken record that is repeating; he goes to a hotel, watching it from across the street] 

  Howard Graham : [voiceover]  Dearest Stephanie: If this letter is found on me - if this ever reaches you - I want you to believe every word of it, and try to understand. It all began that night we arrived in Istanbul...