Sadie Thompson

Sadie Thompson:
[screaming at Alfred Davidson] Was I doing you any harm? You bloodthirsty buzzard! Was I? Who gave you the right to pass judgement on me? You psalm-singing louse! You'd tear out your own mother's heart, if she didn't agree with you, and call it saving her soul!

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
Where do you hail from Sadie?

Sadie Thompson:
San Francisco.

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
That's funny - - my best pal married a girl from San Francisco.

Sadie Thompson:
What part of San Francisco?

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
Where they hang out the red lanterns.

Sadie Thompson:
[thoughtfully] Are they happy?

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
Sure! 'Sfunny but them that kicks the highest often settles down the hardest.

Sadie Thompson:
[to Mr. Davidson] You've got the power to hang me but I've got the power to tell you - HANG ME AND BE DAMNED!

Alfred Davidson:
[to his wife, wiping his forehead] That girl is possessed of devils!

Title Card:
Pago Pago - in the sultry South Seas - where there is no need for bed clothes - yet the rain comes down in sheets... and a detachment of U.S. Marines spend weary months of exile from white men - and white women.

Alfred Davidson:
The knife of reform is the only hope of a sin-sick world.

Mrs. Alfred Davidson:
A righteous man will not hesitate to denounce evil.

Dr. Angus McPhail:
Tolerance is such a splendid virtue it's a pity so few of us have it.

Sadie Thompson:
Smile, Bozo, smile, for no matter how tough it is today it's bound to be worse tomorrow.

Title Card:
Ameena, a typical South Sea beauty - not lazy - just born tired.

Sadie Thompson:
Ever hear the one about the farmer's daughter?

Sadie Thompson:
Ever hear the one about the man who was near-sighted?

Alfred Davidson:
The morals of the island are pretty bad, but I've made the governor understand that things have got to be cleaned up.

Mrs. Alfred Davidson:
That's the brazen woman who attracted so much attention on the boat.

Alfred Davidson:
I have it - that girl is from the disreputable district of San Francisco!

Dr. Angus McPhail:
That's very unfair - the girl has a job in Apia - you're jumping at conclusions!

Alfred Davidson:
I'm never mistaken - I know what she is and why she is here - to carry on her shameful trade!

Sadie Thompson:
Mind your own business! And don't you know better than to bust into a lady's boodwar!

Alfred Davidson:
I refuse to have this house turned into a brothel!

Sadie Thompson:
Get outta here you big bully, or I'll sic my army on you!

Alfred Davidson:
I know why you are here, Sadie Thompson, and I won't have it!

Alfred Davidson:
Scarlet woman!

Mrs. Angus McPhail:
Are you familiar with the whereabouts of the rest room?

Sadie Thompson:
How about it, Handsome? Got a girl?

Sadie Thompson:
Thanks for being so sociable. That bunch in there act like I'm Mrs. Halitosis.

Sadie Thompson:
Gee, Handsome, you're a peach to worry about me.

Joe Horn, the trader:
I can see you're no reformer - you ain't afraid to smile.

Dr. Angus McPhail:
No - just a tourist...

Alfred Davidson:
I've been talking to the natives - they're so depraved I actually have to teach them what sin is.

Alfred Davidson:
I understand you're from San Francisco - what did you do there?

Sadie Thompson:
I had a singing job. My voice ain't so bad if you don't listen too hard.

Alfred Davidson:
Why did you leave?

Sadie Thompson:
My pipes got a little rusty.

Alfred Davidson:
Sadie Thompson, you are an evil woman!

Alfred Davidson:
Kneel, Sadie Thompson, kneel and repent!

Sadie Thompson:
Let go of me, you mealy-mouthed hypocrite!

Sadie Thompson:
That guy Davidson ain't human - he's deep and he's creepy - I'm going to need friends soon, Handsome.

Sadie Thompson:
Davidson can't send me back to 'Frisco can he?

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
Don't let him buffalo you, Sadie - that heel couldn't even send regrets.

Sadie Thompson:
Where is your mercy? You don't know what I've suffered - you don't care - and you call yourself a Christian!

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
Where's Davidson?

Joe Horn, the trader:
He went down to the beach to make the natives quit dancing.

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
Where's Sadie?

Joe Horn, the trader:
Davidson's got her cuckoo - she's been praying steady for three days.

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
Forget the past, Sadie, and think of the future - us two, shoulder to shoulder - facing life together!

Sadie Thompson:
It's the only way, Handsome. I'm - I'm different, now...

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
No, Sadie! This old hyena's got you so hypnotized it's like you're doped!

Mrs. Alfred Davidson:
Mr. Davidson hasn't slept well for three nights, on account of those terrible dreams he has about Miss Thompson.

Alfred Davidson:
Sadie, what are you doing here?

Sadie Thompson:
I was afraid to stay in my room - I got to seeing things in the dark.

Alfred Davidson:
I, too, have been seeing things in the dark - flaming-hot eyes - Aphrodite - Judas!

Sadie Thompson:
What other sacrifice could I offer?

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
Turn off that phonograph, Sadie - something's happened.

Sadie Thompson:
Darned right something's happened - you men are all alike - pigs - PIGS! Nothing personal in that last remark, old pardner.

Sadie Thompson:
I guess I'm sorry for everybody in the world - Life is a quaint present from somebody.

Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara:
Where you going now?

Sadie Thompson:
I'm on my way - don't know where but I guess I'll get there.

Sadie Thompson:
I'd wait a million years for you!