The Grass Is Greener (1960)

Robert Mitchum: Charles Delacro

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• Charles Delacro : Sometimes I'm convinced that the greatest barrier between our countries is the bond of a common language.

• Victor Rhyall : Well, so long, be seeing you, as you say in America.

  Charles Delacro : Cheerio, as you say in England.

• Charles Delacro : Yes, Ma'am.

  Hilary Rhyall : Yes, and in England we only call the Queen "Ma'am".

  Charles Delacro : In the United States we try to make up for having no royalty by calling everyone Ma'am.

• Hilary Rhyall : Perhaps you'd like to help yourself.

  Charles Delacro : Alright, thank you.

  Hilary Rhyall : I imagine it's something you're quite used to. Helping yourself, I mean.

  Charles Delacro : Was that a crack or a compliment?

  Hilary Rhyall : Well, which do you think it is?

  Charles Delacro : Well, in my country I'd probably consider it a compliment. Here it's probably a crack.

• Charles Delacro : Would you like me to fix you a drink?

  Hilary Rhyall : Fix? You sound as if you're going to drug me or something.

• Charles Delacro : I'm an oil man.

  Hilary Rhyall : Oh, you're a millionaire!

  Charles Delacro : As a matter of fact, I am.

  Hilary Rhyall : Oh. Well. Won't you sit down?

  Charles Delacro : Thank you. Tell me, why were you so uh - why were you so sure I was a millionaire?

  Hilary Rhyall : Well, nearly all the Americans I meet seem to be. Especially the oily ones.

• Hilary Rhyall : You know by rights, you should be in the library by now. Enjoying "Portrait of a Burgermeister" by Van Dyck, "Lady Ryall and Children" by Nasmyth circa 1800 unfinished, "Henrietta Maria, the Wife of Charles I" by Rowlandson, and two mirrors by Robert Adam. Why don't you go and look at them?

  Charles Delacro : Because I'd rather look at you.

  Hilary Rhyall : Well, I'm not on exhibition.

  Charles Delacro : May I take a picture of you? "Portrait of the 20th Century Lady of Fashion" by Delacro.

• Charles Delacro : Your grandfather was probably a nobleman. Mine was a clockmaker.

  Hilary Rhyall : And now you're a millionaire, and I'm a mushroom grower. Oh well, there you are. That's the way the world wags.

• Victor Rhyall : You seem to be quite an Anglophile.

  Charles Delacro : Well, there are a number of things I find attractive in this country.

  Victor Rhyall : And how do you rate current Anglo-American relations?

  Charles Delacro : I like to think that they haven't been better since the War of Independence. Course there's always room for improvement.

• Victor Rhyall : How was the fishing?

  Charles Delacro : Well, on the whole, it was pretty fair. There were some big fish around, but I'm afraid your friend, Josh Peters, did a lot better than I did.

  Victor Rhyall : Well, and so he should. He knows that water as well as he know his own wife. Much prefers it, too.

  Hilary Rhyall : Oh, Victor, don't be vulgar.

• Charles Delacro : I know it's my fault. I insisted on coming down here, but - well, now I know that he knows. And he *knows* that I know he knows. Hattie knows. We all know we all know.

• Hilary Rhyall : Perhaps you don't understand Englishmen very well.

  Charles Delacro : Well, who does?

  Hilary Rhyall : Englishwomen.