Movie Quote of the Day – Morocco, 1930 (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
Tom Brown: What in the name of 10,000 corporals did you come to a country like this for anyways?
Amy Jolly: I understand that men are never asked why they entered the Foreign Legion. . .
Tom Brown: That’s right. They never asked me and if they had I wouldn’t have told. When I crashed the Legion, I ditched the past.
Amy Jolly: There’s a foreign legion of women, too. But we have no uniforms, no flags, and no medals when we are brave; no wound stripes when we are hurt.
Tom Brown: Look here, is there anything I can do to help you?
Amy Jolly: No. I’ve thought that before. Or, do you think you can restore my faith in men?
Tom Brown: Not me. You got the wrong man for that! Anybody who has faith in me is a sucker.
Amy Jolly: You better go now. . .I am beginning to like you.
Tom Brown: I’ve told women about everything a man can say. I’m going to tell you something I’ve never told a woman before: I wish I’d met you ten years ago.
Posted on December 27, 2012, in Movie Quote of the Day and tagged 1930, Benno Vigny, Gary Cooper, Josef von Sternberg, Jules Furthman, Marlene Dietrich, Morocco. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
The only thing I remember about this movie when I saw it in 1979 on the big screen is that Marlene Dietrich tried to walk in the desert sand in high heels and nylons at the end of the movie which didn’t work very well. But she had decided to stick with her man.
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