Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)

Celeste Whitman : Are you going to kiss me now?

Captain Mike Turner : No.

Celeste Whitman : Well then let's get the hell out of here.

Celeste Whitman : [having to jump over a hole that's 6 feet long] You know... I have the shortest legs of anybody here.

Captain Mike Turner : Do it!

Celeste Whitman : Okay!

Celeste Whitman : That prayer you did up there... what religion would that be?

Captain Stefan Svevo : Greek Orthodox.

Celeste Whitman : No kidding? I'm Greek Orthodox... suddenly!

[an explosion causes the safe in the Purser's office to fall through the floor and open]

Captain Mike Turner : [looking at the gold coins and cash] Well what do you know?

Celeste Whitman : Well that's one way to crack a safe.

[Celeste starts climb down into the room below]

Captain Mike Turner : Where do you think you're going?

Celeste Whitman : Let's not wait around for the cash arrive.

[Mike and Wilbur climd down into the room below with Celeste and look at the contents of the safe]

Captain Mike Turner : [picks up a gold coin] 1796.

Wilbur Hubbard : How much do you think they're worth?

Captain Mike Turner : 100 times its weight in gold.

Celeste Whitman : Bort?

Captain Mike Turner : What?

Wilbur Hubbard : Bort.

Captain Mike Turner : What's that?

Celeste Whitman : Industrial diamonds.

Captain Mike Turner : How much are they worth?

Celeste Whitman : Oh I think, 3 or $400,000 worth.

[Mike looks amazed]

Celeste Whitman : Now wait a minute, tell me the truth, is this really ours?

Captain Mike Turner : Yeah it's Salvage. Pack up and let's get out of here.

Wilbur Hubbard : [excited] Can see it now Mike? Along the Riviera? We're rich! You know what? We don't need a bank anymore do we?

[laughs]

[the tugboat Jenny is sailing into the Sunset with the survivors]

Celeste Whitman : [joins Mike on the bridge] Poor Wilbur. Why did he do it?

Captain Mike Turner : We only had 2 air tanks. He knew we never had a chance so, gave whatever life he had left.

Celeste Whitman : I really loved that old man.

Captain Mike Turner : What are you going to do now? Go back to your chateau?

Celeste Whitman : There is no chateau.

Captain Mike Turner : Some place must be home.

Celeste Whitman : I'm open to suggestions.

Captain Mike Turner : Well I... I'll sign you on the journey, but the bank's going to take boat away as soon as we reach port.

Celeste Whitman : Maybe not.

[Celeste takes out an industrial diamond which she salvaged from the Poseidon]

Celeste Whitman : Gonna to kiss me now?

Captain Mike Turner : I was gonna kiss you anyway.

[they kiss and the tugboat Jenny sails into the Sunset]

Frank Mazzetti : [looking at the cargo of plutonium] There's enough here to start a war!

Captain Stefan Svevo : [appearing with his men behind a stack of crates] Well that's a slight exaggeration. I'm sorry about this Captain. I had hoped that we would never meet again.

Harold Meredith : Who is that? What's he want?

Celeste Whitman : It's your basic guard variety terroist. I think he wants to kill us.

Captain Stefan Svevo : Well however accurate the second part of your statement may be, please don't confuse me with some politically... impotent bomb thrower. The truth is I came aboard this ship with a purer motive than Captain Turner: to recover a piece of property which was *already* mine.

Captain Mike Turner : You can take *whatever* you want from this ship. I'm welcome to it, but these people have come a long way, and all they want right now is get the hell out of here alive!

Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins : As one man says this to another...

[Svevo's men point their guns at Tex]

Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins : Now hold on just hear me out son.

[They lower their rifles slightly]

Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins : Tell you what, I'll, I'll write a check for the whole shabbang here. If you just lay down your little rifles, we'll all haul ass out of here together. What do you say?

Captain Stefan Svevo : Take a look at that open crate behind me Captain. I sincerly doubt that your friend over there reimburse me for *that*.

Captain Mike Turner : OK. Open it. Let's see.

Captain Stefan Svevo : You open that barrel Captain and we all die. And I have every reasonable hope of wanting to watch the sunset tonight.

Frank Mazzetti : [annoyed] This crap you're dishing out here, you trying to tell us you've got some kind of doomsday machine in there or something?

Captain Stefan Svevo : With the information commonly available today, any enterprising... science student could build a nuclear device.

Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins : Uranium?

Captain Stefan Svevo : [proudly] Plutonium. And as the American Govenment is painfully aware, this isn't the first shipment to go astray.

Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins : Ah, son? Now listen to me. If I was to tell you that I've got certain connections at the Peenee Gon...

Captain Stefan Svevo : Then I would have to tell you that my connection are more powerful than yours. I never intended to harm anyone Captain. But as you must realize... I can't let you go now.

[another explosion occurs]

Celeste Whitman : [character's first line] I'm sick.

Wilbur Hubbard : I don't know, she could go down any moment now.

Captain Mike Turner : The Andrea Doria stayed up for more than ten hours.

Celeste Whitman : Well, I stayed up for a week once. So what?

Celeste Whitman : If I'd known I was gonna be sailing with Captain Bligh I'd have stayed put up in my chateau in the Riviera.

Captain Mike Turner : Chateau? Is that what the other girls called it?

Celeste Whitman : Listen, ace, it's not exactly the Waldorf down there.

Celeste Whitman : Oh, come off it, Turner. I know you're a terrifically tough guy, but you're not a son of a bitch - no matter how bad you want me to think you are! Are you?

Captain Mike Turner : Wilbur, make ready the skiff. Get the monkey to help you.

Celeste Whitman : Monkey? I didn't know you guys had a monkey aboard. Gee, I didn't see one down - - - wonderful.

Captain Mike Turner : You're looking at a four-star passenger liner carrying hundreds of wealthy people on a European cruise. The only kind of salvage I want out of there is the kind I can carry on my back.

Celeste Whitman : And end up with what? A bagful of credit cards and gold fillings? Charming.

Celeste Whitman : I came to France a year and a half ago with my boyfriend from Cincinnati.

Captain Mike Turner : Where's your boyfriend now?

Celeste Whitman : Cincinnati.

Captain Mike Turner : Coming, monkey?

Celeste Whitman : Why not?

Celeste Whitman : God, this is not a good day for me! Honestly, you just don't understand me at all.

Captain Mike Turner : Understand you? I don't even know who you are.

Suzanne Constantine : My dress. I don't think I can make it.

Captain Mike Turner : Take it off.

Suzanne Constantine : I beg your pardon?

Captain Mike Turner , Suzanne Constantine : Take it off!