Candleshoe (1977)
Jodie Foster: Casey
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Casey Brown : What if your real granddaughter comes back?
Lady St. Edmund : Perhaps she has.
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Casey Brown : I'm not deprived; I'm delinquent. There's a difference, you know.
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Lady St. Edmund : So, after you left, we examined the fireplace. There was a loose stone...
Casey Brown : You're kiddin'?
Lady St. Edmund : And there was something hidden in the canopy behind it.
[takes out a small, shiny box from behind her back]
Lady St. Edmund : Do you recognize this?
Casey Brown : No.
Lady St. Edmund : Look closer, dear. Are you sure you've never seen it? It's very important!
Casey Brown : No. No. Although...
[begins to whistle the first notes of a tune, then opens the box, which turns out to be a music box that completes the melody]
Casey Brown : Uh, I don't understand...
Lady St. Edmund : Oh, my dear. Oh, my dear!... Welcome to Candleshoe!
[embraces Casey, crying]
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Casey Brown : You're a hustler.
Harry Bundage : A what?
Casey Brown : A hustler. A con man. I can smell 'em a mile away.
Harry Bundage : You take care your smeller don't end up where your ears oughta be!
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Lady St. Edmund : I don't suppose your experience with family life has been a happy one.
Casey Brown : What family life? Tell ya, the only thing i remember about family life is nothing. Zero. One foster dump to another. I mean who really cares about a kid you take in just for the welfare money and the food stamps? I mean who really cares? It's a racket, just like anything else. The whole world's a racket. First thing i ever learned. you get up out of bed in the morning with your dukes up. You got 'em up, first punch is yours.
Lady St. Edmund : I see.
Casey Brown : Yeah, well, maybe you do and maybe you don't.
Lady St. Edmund : But you can't go through life alone.
Casey Brown : I ain't alone. I got me. Listen, if you don't hand it out you don't have to worry about not getting it back.
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Casey Brown : [far too posh] Teddy and Piggywig!
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Casey Brown : For the sunrise student, there is treasure among books.
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Casey Brown : The paths of glory lead but to the grave. That's it! I found the clue.
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Casey Brown : You can peel and core the apples Queenie. I'm busy.
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Casey Brown : [Casey has told everyone at Candleshoe the real reason for her arrival and what she has discovered thus far. They are all at the graveyard looking at the headstone] ... And this was the last clue. He followed the Eclipse for riches and fame...
Priory : And if ye would prosper, do ye the same. What does it mean?
Lady St. Edmund : Why, it's very simple. The Eclipse was a ship. Captain Joshua's ship. There's a picture of it in the house, of Captain Joshua accepting the surrender of a Spanish vessel on the Spanish main. Dear Lord, well, that's the clue! Come on everyone! It's hanging in the hall!
Priory : Um, my Lady!
Lady St. Edmund : [remembers] It's not hanging in the hall...
Lady St. Edmund : [Lady St. Edmund has called an emergency meeting with Mr. Thresher] You sold it, Mr. Thresher, you sold my painting?
Mr. Thresher : Well, my lady, it was my painting. You sold to me, that is, well, Mr. Priory sold it to me, that is...
Priory : Mr. Thresher, we certaintly have no quams with the sale, but we must get a look at it. So if you would, please tell us who you sold it to,and where is it now?
Mr. Thresher : Ah, I sold it to an elderly woman only yesterday. She said, that Captain Joshua reminded her of her father...
Lady St. Edmund : Another pirate, no doubt.
Mr. Thresher : I packaged it up, myself. It's leaving on the 12:20 for London!
Priory : 12:20. Thank you Mr. Thresher. Come along, everyone. We must get to the station!
Casey Brown : But, it's 12:15 now!
Priory : That train never leaves on time, if we hurry we should just make it.
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Lady St. Edmund : Priory!
Lady St. Edmund : My Lady?
Casey Brown : Gagh!
[puts down the spoon]
Harry Bundage : Eat it!
Casey Brown : I can't! I've had enough! Uh...
[looks for a place to dump the rice pudding out]
Lady St. Edmund : Strawberries, shortbread, rice pudding? I must say, that was very unscrupulous of you, Priory.
Priory : Quite right, My Lady. Most unscrupulous.
Lady St. Edmund : We'll just let things take their course, shall we, Priory?
Priory : [bows] Very good.
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Peter : [rushes into the lake to break up the fight between Anna, Casey and Cluny] Are you all right?
Casey Brown : Yeah. Yeah, I'm OK... I'm fine!
[holds her eye and trods out of the lake]
Peter : [holds Cluny and Anna each by the arm] You two ought to be ashamed of yourselves! Two against one!
Bobby : [on the shore] Yes! And what will Grandmother say when she finds out?
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Casey Brown : [stands in front of the mirror after she has showered. She wipes the fog off the glass. The bathroom door behind her opens and Jenkins and Bundage walk in] Don't nobody knock around this place?
[both men stare at Casey]
Casey Brown : Who's this joker?
Harry Bundage : [walks up to Casey, roughly looks at her scars on her forehead and shoulderblade]
Jenkins : The markings are just the way you described them!
Harry Bundage : Yes!
[turns back to Casey]
Harry Bundage : Where did you get those scars?
Casey Brown : [sarcastically] Rudolph Valentino beat me 'cuz I wouldn't marry 'em!
Harry Bundage : [slaps Casey across the face] That's the last time you sass me! Now! Where did those scars come from?
Casey Brown : I don't remember.
[Harry raises his hand to slap Casey again, Casey flinches]
Harry Bundage : Just keep on, not remembering!
[throws a box on the table next to the sink]
Harry Bundage : Put those on!
[turns to Jenkins]
Harry Bundage : Excellent work, Mr. Jenkins! I'm very pleased!
Jenkins : Good, good! Will there be anything else, Mr. Bundage?
Harry Bundage : No, no.
Casey Brown : [has opened the box and holds up the garment] A dress?
Harry Bundage : Put it on.
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Casey Brown : [Jenkins has caught Casey as she is trying to flee the apartment] Let go of me! I'm a minor!
[held by the arm, Casey is flung back into the apartment]
Casey Brown : You creeps! You lousy creeps! Sold me out to the cops, huh?
Mrs. McCress : Shut up!
[to Jenkins]
Mrs. McCress : Well, this is her!
Casey Brown : [Casey is again grabbed by Jenkins, who examines her shoulderblade and forehead, looking at the scars. Satisfied that Casey is the one he is looking for, he tosses a large envelope of money on the table. Mr. McCress greedily opens the envelope and begins counting]
Mrs. McCress : [hands a suitcase to Jenkins] Here's the rest of her stuff.
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Cluny : [Casey has just come out of the closet after talking privately with Bundage] Who were you telephoning?
Casey Brown : My stock broker. I told him to order 100 pounds of Alakazam Salt and Pepper.
Cluny : Listen, you're up to something.
[steps closer]
Cluny : I want to know what it is.
Casey Brown : Na, you listen. If you don't keep your snout out of my business,
[squints and smiles]
Casey Brown : your smeller will wind up where your ears 'otta be.
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Casey Brown : [Knock on the door] Yeah, who is it? Come on in.
Bobby : It's me. You awake?
Casey Brown : Yeah, I think I am. How come you're not in bed?
Bobby : I've got something for you.
Casey Brown : What's that?
Bobby : Garlic.
Casey Brown : Garlic?
Bobby : Garlic. Keeps ghosts away.
Casey Brown : Garlic keeps everyone away.
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Priory : Now Cluny you've already met.
Casey Brown : Yeah, right, I met Cluny.
Priory : Over here, struggling with the churn, is Peter.
Casey Brown : Hi.
Peter : Hello, welcome to Candleshoe.
Priory : This is Anna.
Bobby : [From above] Hey, somebody catch!
[He tosses a jar. Casey catches it]
Peter : Hey, well held!
Priory : [Bobby slides down the column into the kitchen] The acrobatic member of the family is Bobby.
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Lady St. Edmund : I don't mind in the least that you lied to me when you first came to Candleshoe. But I would be very hurt if you lied to me now. Do you really want to go back to Los Angeles?
Casey Brown : [Casey begins to cry and is embarassed] I've never cried in my life.
Lady St. Edmund : Then I think it's time that you did. Come on, my dear. We're going home.
[they leave the train station together]
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Casey Brown : It wasn't a book, it was a window: The Paths of Glory lead but to the Grave.
