Monsieur Verdoux

Remember: You can always stoop and pick up nothing. 648 00:41:52,511 --> 00:41:55,014 Oh, never mind them. Tell me, have you been good? 649 00:41:55,181 --> 00:41:56,515 What a question! 650 00:41:56,682 --> 00:41:58,963 You haven't been fooling around with native girls, I hope. 651 00:41:59,059 --> 00:42:00,978 How could you think of such a thing? 652 00:42:01,103 --> 00:42:03,147 When you're away, I think of all sorts of things. 653 00:42:03,272 --> 00:42:05,691 There's the difference. All I think of is you. 654 00:42:05,858 --> 00:42:07,401 No kidding. 655 00:42:07,526 --> 00:42:09,820 [ Chuckles ] Every moment. 656 00:42:09,945 --> 00:42:12,531 In the cabin, on the bridge, even on the poop deck... 657 00:42:12,698 --> 00:42:14,575 you're always in my mind. 658 00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:17,369 Wondering what you're doing, whom you are seeing. 659 00:42:17,494 --> 00:42:20,873 - Oh, pigeon! - And alone at night... 660 00:42:20,998 --> 00:42:23,250 under a canopy of tropical stars... 661 00:42:23,375 --> 00:42:27,171 with the soft strains of a Viennese waltz coming from the salon. 662 00:42:27,296 --> 00:42:29,131 Music on a cargo ship? 663 00:42:29,256 --> 00:42:31,717 Oh, yes. We have a radio. 664 00:42:31,842 --> 00:42:33,552 Oh, yes. 665 00:42:35,888 --> 00:42:38,307 Now — Now you've interrupted my thought. 666 00:42:38,432 --> 00:42:41,143 - You were thinking of me, pigeon. - Ah, yes, you. 667 00:42:41,268 --> 00:42:43,437 I would think of these adorable arms... 668 00:42:43,562 --> 00:42:47,233 these little hands, and this delightful little wisp. 669 00:42:47,399 --> 00:42:49,360 [ Chuckles ] Let me kiss you there. 670 00:42:52,488 --> 00:42:55,366 Oh, I wish you didn't have to go back to sea again. 671 00:42:55,491 --> 00:42:58,327 So do I. I much prefer to stay home and look after you. 672 00:42:58,452 --> 00:43:01,580 - Then why don't you? - You know why. We've been through this before. 673 00:43:01,705 --> 00:43:06,085 I can't stay home and do nothing. It'd be different if I could manage your business affairs. 674 00:43:06,252 --> 00:43:09,380 Huh-uh. I can manage my own business affairs. 675 00:43:11,423 --> 00:43:14,009 - Trouble is, you don't trust me. - I do trust you, but — 676 00:43:14,134 --> 00:43:16,595 You don't. You don't. 677 00:43:16,762 --> 00:43:19,765 That's what hurts. That's what mars our happiness. 678 00:43:19,932 --> 00:43:21,767 You trust everyone but me. 679 00:43:21,934 --> 00:43:23,894 Strangers can come along and sell you anything — 680 00:43:23,936 --> 00:43:26,063 any phony proposition — and you bite. 681 00:43:26,188 --> 00:43:28,482 But darling, what do you know about business? 682 00:43:28,607 --> 00:43:31,110 Emphatically more than you do, my dear. 683 00:43:31,235 --> 00:43:34,738 Last time, you came barging in, telling me all the banks were going broke. 684 00:43:34,863 --> 00:43:38,033 <i>Getting me all horsed up about bringing my money home.</i> 685 00:43:38,158 --> 00:43:40,911 <i>Well, it's a good thing I didn't!</i> 686 00:43:41,036 --> 00:43:43,080 Very well. We'll forget the matter. 687 00:43:45,416 --> 00:43:48,294 - Now, don't be mad, pigeon. - I'm not angry, my dear. 688 00:43:48,460 --> 00:43:50,814 I'm merely trying to save you from squandering your money... 689 00:43:50,838 --> 00:43:54,174 on these ridiculous enterprises: stocks that are worthless. 690 00:43:54,300 --> 00:43:56,635 - They're not all worthless. - All of them. 691 00:43:58,721 --> 00:44:00,639 Well, I still have faith... 692 00:44:00,806 --> 00:44:02,766 in the Pacific Ocean Power Company. 693 00:44:02,891 --> 00:44:04,685 Good heavens! What's that? 694 00:44:04,810 --> 00:44:07,187 I told you. It's a machine that floats on waves. 695 00:44:07,313 --> 00:44:10,858 When it rocks like this, it turns wheels like that, and that makes electricity. 696 00:44:10,983 --> 00:44:14,320 Hmm. And what does it make when the sea is calm? 697 00:44:14,445 --> 00:44:16,447 Don't be a pessimist. 698 00:44:16,572 --> 00:44:20,242 That's what I mean. Wasting your money on sheer nonsense! 699 00:44:20,367 --> 00:44:22,870 Here's inflation. Very soon money will be worthless. 700 00:44:22,995 --> 00:44:26,373 - What have you done about it? Nothing. - What do you want me to do? 701 00:44:26,498 --> 00:44:29,501 Invest wisely. Safely, at least. 702 00:44:29,668 --> 00:44:31,795 Land, houses, or better still, jewelry. 703 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,673 - A friend has some beautiful — - [ Laughs ] That's funny. 704 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,342 - What's funny? - Just what I did. 705 00:44:36,508 --> 00:44:39,219 - What did you "did"? - I bought jewelry. Diamonds. 706 00:44:39,345 --> 00:44:41,513 - Where did you buy them? - Now, don't get excited. 707 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,808 From Joe, Vicki's husband. The people who just left here. 708 00:44:44,933 --> 00:44:48,354 My dear! That's not the way to buy jewelry! 709 00:44:48,479 --> 00:44:51,190 Don't be sil