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Anna Christie Page #6
- PASSED
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- 1930
- 89 min
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You're her father. Wouldn't it be a shame|for us to be at each others' throats...
...like a pair of dogs,|and I married to Anna.
So out with the truth, man alive.|What is it you're holding against me at all?
I don't want my Anna for got married.
Listen, you fella. I'm old man.
I don't see my Anna for 15 year.|She's all I got in the world.
You think now when she come on first trip,|I want her for leave me alone again?
Sure, let you not be thinking I've no heart|at all for the way you'd be feeling.
Then you do right thing, eh?
You ship away again|and leave my Anna alone.
Say, big fella like you on sea,|he don't need a wife.
He got new girl in every port,|you know that.
Oh, shut up.
Sure, there's a time come to every man,|on sea or land...
...when he's sick of the lot of them cows,|and wearing his heart out to meet up...
...with some fine, decent girl...
...and building a home to call his own,|rearing up children in it.
Sure, Anna's the one woman|in the world for me...
...and I can't live without her now,|I'm thinking.
You think I'm going let her life|be made sorry by you...
...just like her mother's was made by me?
No, she don't marry you.|Not if I have to kill you first.
Glory be to God, what talk|from a stumpy runt of a man.
It is queer fool's blather you have, about|the sea done this and the sea done that.
You ought to be ashamed to be saying|the like, you an old sailor.
I'm hearing a lot from you,|and a lot more that Anna tells me...
...you do be saying to her. I'm thinking|it is a poor weak thing you are.
Not a man at all.
You see if I'm man|maybe quicker than you think.
You know the truth in your heart. The sea|hit you a clout once and knocked you down.
You're not man enough to get up for|another, but you lie there howling murder.
I'd like to see you|in the best of your youth.
- Do what I done in the storm and after.|- Why, you young fool, you.
In old days,|when I was on windjammer...
...I went through hundred storms|worse than that.
Ships were ships then,|and men what sailing them real men.
What you got on steamers now?
You got fellas on deck don't know|a ship from a mud scow...
...and below deck, you got fellas|just know how to shovel coal.
You might as well|work on coal wagon ashore, you.
Is it throwing insults at the men|in the stokehold you are, you old ape?
One of them is worth any 10 squareheads|ever shipped on a windbag.
- You Irish swine.|- So you don't like the Irish, you old baboon?
Sure, it's that you're needing|in your family. An Irishman.
A man of the stokehold|to put guts in it...
...so you'll not be rearing up grandchildren|to be jackasses like yourself.
Sure, old men getting childish|shouldn't play with knives.
Faith, I've half a mind to hit you a clout|will put sense in your square head.
Keep away from me, now.
Hello, Matt. Are you here already?
Say, what's up? How did that chair|get knocked over?
Oh, Matt, you haven't been fighting|with him, after you promised?
I've not laid a hand on him, Anna.
I told him to his teeth I love you.|That's God's truth, and well you know it.
He tell same thing|to girl in every port he goes.
I know it's true, Matt.|Don't you mind what he says.
God bless you.
And then I said I thought maybe|you'd have a bit of love for me too.
So you told him that?
Maybe I have. I've been wondering|if I do love you.
I didn't want to, I must own up to that.
But l... I guess I can't help it,|so I guess I do.
Oh, sure, I do, Matt. What's the use|of kidding myself different?
- Sure, I love you.|- God be praised.
And I haven't ever loved a man|in my life before, never.
Faith, we'll be having a grand, beautiful|life together to the end of our days.
Matt.
- Goodbye, Matt.|- Goodbye, is it?
I'll be coming at you in a second|for more of the same.
Own up like a man|when you're beat fair and square.
Here's me hand to you.|We'll be friends from this out.
No, I don't shake hands with you, fella.|Not while I live.
The back of me hand to you,|then, if that suits you.
It's a rotten bad loser you are,|devil mend you.
No, I don't lose.|Anna said she like you little bit.
But you don't hear her say|she marry you, I bet.
No, and I don't hear her say|the sun is shining, either.
- No, I didn't say it, Matt.|- There, you hear?
You're waiting to be asked, you mean?
Well, I'm asking you now.
We'll be wedded this day,|with the help of God.
- You heard what I said after I kissed you.|- I don't remember.
I said goodbye.|That kiss was for goodbye, Matt.
What do you mean?
I can't marry you.|We've said goodbye, that's all.
- I knew that was so.|- Is it making game of me you'd be?
It's a queer time to joke with me.|Don't be doing it, for the love of God.
You don't think I'd kid you now.
I'm not joking, Matt. I mean what I say.
You don't. You can't.|It is mad you are, I'm telling you.
- No, I'm not.|- What's come over you so sudden?
You were saying you love me.
I'll say that as often as you want me to.|It's true.
But why? What? What is it?
Because...
...it's the best way I can figure out, Matt.
I've been thinking it over and thinking|it over, day and night, all week.
Oh, don't think it isn't hard|on me too, Matt.
Well, will you tell me what's preventing|this wedding...
...when the two of us has love?
I'm thinking it's listening|to that old fool you are...
...him hating me, filling your ears|full of lies against me.
Yes, Anna believe me, not you.|She know her old father don't lie like you.
You sit down, do you hear?
Why do you come butting in|and making things worse?
You're like a devil, you are.
Here I was, beginning to like you,|beginning to forget all the things...
...l've held up against you.|- You ain't got nothing for hold against me.
Haven't I, though? Well, let me tell you.
Matt, I'm surprised at you.
- You didn't think anything he'd said...|- Sure, what else would it be?
Tell me, and don't keep me waiting.
I can't tell you, and I won't.
I've got a good reason,|that's all you need to know.
I can't marry you,|and that's all there is to it.
So for heaven's sake,|let's talk of something else.
No, I'll not.
- Is it married to someone else you are?|- I should say not.
You're like them women|can't make up their minds...
...till they're drove to it.|Well, I'll make up your mind for you.
We've had enough talk.|Let's go to the other room...
...and dress in your best.|We're going ashore.
- She don't do that.|- Where do you get that stuff?
Never mind,|get on with your dressing.
- We'll see who'll win in the end, me or you.|- Stay, Anna.
She will not. She'll do what I say.|You've had your hold on her long enough.
- It's my turn now.|- Your turn? What am I anyway?
Never mind what you are.|It's what you're gonna be:
Wedded to me.|Come on with your dressing.
- Don't do one thing he say!|- She will!
- I'm her father.|- She will in spite of you.
She's taking my orders|from now on, not yours.
Orders is good.
Never mind now.|We've no time to be wasting.
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