On the Beach (1959)

Donna Anderson: Mary Holmes

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• Peter : Now, this is a special kind of - - sleeping pill. I had a devil of a time getting 'em. But, I wanted you to have them on hand and to make sure you knew how to use 'em. - - What happens with the radiation is that you get - you get ill - and you start feeling sick and then you are sick and you go on being sick. You can't keep anything down. You may feel better for awhile; but, but it always comes back. You get weaker.

  Mary : And this cures it.

  Peter : Darling, you know nothing cures it. This ends it.

• Peter : You remember when we first met? It was on the beach. I thought you were everything I'd always wanted.

  Mary : I thought you were so underfed.

• Mary : It's all over now, isn't it?

  Peter : Yes, it's all over.

• Julian Osborne : We're all doomed, you know. The whole, silly, drunken, pathetic lot of us. Doomed by the air we're about to breathe. We haven't got a chance!

  Mary : Stop it! I won't have it, Julian. I won't! There is hope. There has to be hope. There's always hope. We just can't go on like this. We can't. We - we...

• [last lines] 

  Mary : God... God, forgive us. Peter, I think I'll have that cup of tea now.

• Mary : [as she is bent over wearing a bathing suit, Peter snaps a towel on Mary's behind]  Peter, how could you!

  Peter : Oh, I don't know, really, I just held the towel like this and...

  Mary : Very funny.

  Peter : You're starting to get your figure back, arent' ya... You know, after Jennifer and all. Little here. A little there.

• Mary : We would have to get someone for him, wouldn't we? What about Moira?

  Peter : Well, why not, if she's sober this weekend.

  Mary : Julian said she's given it up.

  Peter : Oh, no, darling, you didn't listen. Julian said she'd given up gin - for brandy. She says she can drink more brandy.

• Mary : Now, it's all over, isn't it?

  Peter : It's all over.

• Peter : [Last lines]  Darling.

  Mary : God, God forgive us. Peter, I think I'll have that cup of tea, now.

• Mary : You never wrestle with me any more.

  Peter : Now, what does that mean?

  Mary : I mean exactly what I say, you never wrestle with me any more.

• Mary : Was he married, do you know?

  Peter : Two kids.

  Mary : And there gone.

  Peter : Yes, they were in America.