In Search of the Castaways (1962)

Michael Anderson Jr.: John Glenarvan

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• John Glenarvan : When we first met, I had a different impression. Most girls can be rather silly. Do you know what I mean?

  Mary Grant : No, I don't.

  John Glenarvan : Well... you're different.

  Mary Grant : How different?

  John Glenarvan : I don't know how to say it. I had it all worked out last night. Sounds rather silly now, though.

  Mary Grant : What does?

  John Glenarvan : Well, you don't expect things of a girl, certain things like climbing mountains, going through floods, making the most of it. You know what I mean?

  Mary Grant : Don't think I do.

  John Glenarvan : Well, I want to say that... I think you've been just *fine*... for a girl. Well, what I really mean is that - if we get out of here alive, and when we're old enough...

  Mary Grant : John?

  John Glenarvan : Mary.

  Mary Grant : There's the log you've needed for your raft.

• John Glenarvan : Now just a minute! Don't forget that it was me who arranged -

  [Mary's kiss instantly silences him] 

  Mary Grant : Thank you!

• Mary Grant : Just think: If he hadn't put the note in the bottle, and if Monsieur Paganel hadn't caught that shark...

  John Glenarvan : And if you hadn't tried to slapped my face that morning on the way to Plymouth, I wouldn't have talked my father into making this trip.

  Mary Grant : Funny how things work out, isn't it?

• Mary Grant : Here we are, all of us together.

  John Glenarvan : All of us. Did you ever see so many stars?

  Mary Grant : Once, on top of a mountain.

  John Glenarvan : Did you know that down there out of the light, you can see the Southern Cross?

  Mary Grant : Southern Cross?

  [they stroll off, alone] 

• John Glenarvan : By Jove, that was a narrow squeak!

  [ledge collapses underneath them] 

• Lord Glenarvan : My dear boy, if that's the way you feel about it, let's have a look at the blasted note. Where is it?

  John Glenarvan : In the bottle.

  Lord Glenarvan : Well, where's the bottle?

  John Glenarvan : The Frenchman has it.

  Lord Glenarvan : Confounded, where's the Frenchman?

  John Glenarvan : You had him thrown off the ship in Glasgow.

• John Glenarvan : Wait! I want to make a wish on that star.

  Mary Grant : What could *you* wish for that you haven't got?

  John Glenarvan : That my father would go somewhere and get lost. Just for a little while, you understand.

• Lord Glenarvan : [as John starts to put his hand on Mary's shoulder]  Ah, there you are, my boy. Better get some sleep, you know. Got an early start.

  John Glenarvan : We're too excited to sleep.

  Lord Glenarvan : Hmm. So I see! You'd better come along with me, just the same.

• Jacques Paganel : Merci merci merci beaucoup, merci milord Glenarvan!

  [the group starts to dance around Glenarvan] 

  Jacques Paganel , Mary Grant , Robert Grant , John Glenarvan : Merci merci merci beaucoup, merci milord Glenarvan!

  Jacques Paganel : Hooray!

• Lord Glenarvan : That's a fine thing. When I really want something, no one takes the slightest notice. If I happen to drop a casual remark...

  John Glenarvan : Casual remark? "Throw him off the ship before I call the police! We ought to hang him from the yardarm!"

• Lord Glenarvan : My dear children, ever since I posted the reward for news of your father's ship, people have been turning up with notes they claimed to have found in bottles. How many is this, John?

  John Glenarvan : Uh, twenty-two, father.

  Lord Glenarvan : If I had my way, every last one of the culprits would be hanged from the yardarm. Exploiting human misery, that's what it is. Nothing more vicious, more... treacherous.