Frenzy (1972)
Vivien Merchant: Mrs. Oxford
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Quotes
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Mrs. Oxford : Woman's intuition is worth more than all those laboratories. I can't think why you don't teach it in police colleges.
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Chief Inspector Oxford : What does your intuition tell you I want for dinner tonight?
Mrs. Oxford : Steak and a baked potato. But you're getting: pied de porc la mode de Caens.
Chief Inspector Oxford : lt looks like a pig's foot!
Mrs. Oxford : That's what it is. I put it in the same sauce the French use for tripe.
Chief Inspector Oxford : That's comforting.
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Chief Inspector Oxford : It's delicious. But I find the - ingredients somewhat mystifying.
Mrs. Oxford : They're smelts, ling, conger eel, John Dory, pilchards and frog fish.
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Mrs. Oxford : A 'crime de passion' after all that time? Look at us. We've only been married eight years, and you can *hardly* keep your eyes open at night.
Chief Inspector Oxford : Well, that's as may be, but I don't knock you about or make you do degrading things.
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Mrs. Oxford : That *ties* it up then.
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Mrs. Oxford : What do you think they held? A locket? A broach? A cross!
Chief Inspector Oxford : It had to be something that would incriminate him. Something that he missed when he put the body on the truck. A monogrammed handkerchief, perhaps.
Mrs. Oxford : Not a cross, I think.
Chief Inspector Oxford : Well, I don't see why not. Religious and sexual mania are - closely linked.
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Mrs. Oxford : Well, there you are. You told me the man's a sexual pervert.
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Mrs. Oxford : You old slyboots!