On the Beach (1959)
Donna Anderson: Mary Holmes
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Quotes
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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.
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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...
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[last lines]
Mary : God... God, forgive us. Peter, I think I'll have that cup of tea now.
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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.