Doctor X (1932)
Robert Warwick: Police Commissioner Stevens
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Quotes
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Police Commissioner Stevens : I hope we're not disturbing you, Professor.
Dr. Haines, Academy of Surgical Research : Not at all, I was just relaxing.
Dr. Jerry Xavier : Professor Haines is a most intensive worker. I've just been telling Mr. Stevens of your phenomenal experiments in brain grafting.
Dr. Haines, Academy of Surgical Research : Oh, Doctor, Doctor, come! Come, I want to show you! I want to show you a new type of brain cell.
Dr. Jerry Xavier : That should be interesting, Professor.
Dr. Haines, Academy of Surgical Research : I'm sure you'll find it so.
Dr. Jerry Xavier : On the slide?
Dr. Haines, Academy of Surgical Research : Yes.
Detective O'Halloran : [O'Halloran opens a ledger] Look!
[He shows Stevens a stack of girlie magazines]
Detective O'Halloran : Relaxing.
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Police Commissioner Stevens : What's your theory of the killer?
Dr. Jerry Xavier : A neurotic, of course. Some poor devil suffering from a fixation.
Police Commissioner Stevens : A fixation? What do you mean?
Dr. Jerry Xavier : A knot or kink tied in the brain by some past experience. A madness that comes only at certain times when the killer is brought in direct contact with some vivid reminder of the past.
Police Commissioner Stevens : [chuckling] It's hard to believe that.
Dr. Jerry Xavier : Yes, for a policeman I suppose it is. But I tell you that locked in each human skull is a little world all its own.
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Police Commissioner Stevens : [Stevens has noticed a pair of shoes drying on a radiator] I understand, Professor, that you live just where you work. That you seldom leave the Institute.
Dr. Wells : Not necessarily. I played truant a short while ago. I was down by the waterfront, for a breath of air.
Police Commissioner Stevens : What time was that?
Dr. Jerry Xavier : [Interrupting Stevens] You're not feeling well? Your arm is troubling you?
Dr. Wells : Yes it's, it's very annoying.
Dr. Jerry Xavier : Well, you're foolish to sit there in discomfort.
Dr. Wells : If you gentlemen don't mind, I...
Dr. Jerry Xavier : Why, of course not, of course not.
Dr. Wells : [Wells removes his prosthetic left hand] I put it on just as I heard you coming. An empty sleeve is revolting to most people.
Police Commissioner Stevens : [chuckling] Well I, I think we've taken up enough of Professor Wells' time.
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Police Commissioner Stevens : You're an astronomer, Doctor?
Dr. Rowitz : Not that, sir. I have an interest in the light qualities of the moon. If you might suffer sunstroke, might you not suffer some similar evil - from the rays of the moon?
Police Commissioner Stevens : Moonstruck, you mean?
Dr. Rowitz : Exactly, what we call lunacy, from the word luna, meaning the moon. Latin, you know. However, the luna rays will never affect you or me, sir; because, we are normal people.