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Jack: Now, I'm really sorry to be upsetting you, but I have to warn you.
David: Warn me?
Jack: We were attacked by a werewolf.
David: [putting his hands over his ears] I'm not listening to this!
Jack: On the moors, we were attacked by a lycanthrope, a werewolf. I was murdered, an unnatural death, and now I walk the earth in limbo until the werewolf's curse is lifted.
David: Shut up!
Jack: The wolf's bloodline must be severed; the last remaining werewolf must be destroyed. It's you, David.
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David: How could there have been witnesses? It was so dark. We were running, and I fell and Jack went to help me up, and this thing came from nowhere. I don't know what they're talking about.
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Jack: It's a full moon...
Jack, David: [remembering the warning they received] Beware the moon...
David: And stick to the road. Oops.
Jack: I vote we go back to the Slaughtered Lamb.
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Little boy: A naked American man stole my balloons.
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Jack: Have you tried talking to a corpse? It's boring.
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David: I will not be threatened by a walking meat loaf!
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Dart Player: Go. Stay on the road. Keep clear of the moors.
David: Yeah. Thank you.
Chess Player: Beware the moon, lads.
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David: I want you to arrest me, you asshole!
Bobby in Trafalgar Square: There's no call for that kind of language.
David: Queen Elizabeth is a man! Prince Charles is a faggot! Winston Churchill was full of shit!
Bobby in Trafalgar Square: That's enough.
David: No! Let go of me!
Alex: David, please!
David: Shakespeare's French! Fuck! Shit! Cunt! Shit!
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[Appearing for the first time as the undead]
Jack: Can I have a piece of toast?
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David: [while transforming] I didn't mean to call you a meat loaf, Jack!
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David: [to himself] I'm going completely crazy.
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Dart Player: [to Dr. Hirsch] He'll change, He'll...
Chess Player: THAT'S ENOUGH!... That's enough.
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Alex: Benjamin, have you ever been severely beaten about the face and neck?
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Nurse Susan Gallagher: I think he's a Jew.
Alex: What makes you say that?
Nurse Susan Gallagher: I've had a look.
Alex: Hey, Susan, that wasn't very proper. Besides, it's common practice now.
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David: I think Debbie Klein is a mediocre person with a good body.
Jack: There is nothing mediocre about Debbie Klein's body.
David: She's a jerk!
Jack: You're talking about the woman I love.
David: I'm talking about a girl you want to fuck, so give me a break.
Jack: Alright. Well, I have to make love to her. It's really very simple. She has not choice.
David: You know, it just fascinates me how much energy you spend on somebody so dull.
Jack: There's nothing dull - about that body.
David: We've known Debbie - what? Since the 8th grade? How many years of foreplay is that?
Jack: She says she likes me too much.
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Jack: [describing his funeral] Debbie Klein cried a lot. So, so, you know what she does? She's soooo grief-stricken, she runs to find solace in Mark Levine's bed.
David: Mark... Levine?
Jack: An asshole! Life mocks me even in death!
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Gerald Bringsley: [accusing David of his murder] Whereas I am a victim of your carnivorous lunar activities.
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Hospital Porter: Don't ask me, I'm just an orderly. I push things around.
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Alex: Shall I be forced to feed you, David?
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Sean's Wife: [looking out the window as the werewolf kills two people] Sean, I think there are some hooligans in the park again.
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Jack: You scared me, you shithead!
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Alf: Here! Who's there?
Ted: That's not Winston!
Alf: Look! There!
Joseph: Mary, mother of God!
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Dart Player: You made me miss.
Jack: Sorry.
Dart Player: I've never missed that board before.
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Taxi Driver: Puts you in mind of the days of the old demon barber of Fleet Street, don't it?
Alex: Sorry?
Taxi Driver: The murders.
David: What murders?
Taxi Driver: Haven't you heard? Last night... six of 'em. All in different parts of the city, all mutilated. He must be a real right maniac, this fella.
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David: Maybe it's a sheep dog... let's keep going.
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Mr. Collins: These dumb ass kids. They never appreciate what you do for them.
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[still discussing how David can kill himself in order to lift the curse]
Harry Berman: A gun is good.
Judith Browns: You just put the gun to your forehead and pull the trigger.
Gerald Bringsley: If you put it in your mouth, then you'd be sure not to miss.
David: Thank you, you're all so thoughtful.
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David: I'm going to the police. Jack was right.
Alex: Jack is dead!
David: Jack is dead and six people are dead. There's gonna be a full moon tonight. I'm going to the cops.
Alex: David, please be rational. Let's go to Dr. Hirsch.
David: Yeah, be rational, sure. I'm a fucking werewolf, for Christ's sake!
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Jack: Those sheep shit on my pack.
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Jack: Ah, fuck, David... what IS THAT?
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Jack: [to the truck driver] You have very beautiful sheep.
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Jack: Did you hear that?
David: I heard that.
Jack: What was it?
David: Could be a lot of things.
Jack: Yeah?
David: A coyote.
Jack: There aren't any coyotes in England.
David: The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Jack: Pecos Bill.
David: Heathcliff.
Jack: Heathcliff didn't howl!
David: No, but he was on the moors.
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David: Nurse!
Jack: Listen to me!
David: [crying] Nurse!
Jack: The undead surround me. Have you ever talked to a corpse? It's boring! I'm lonely! Kill yourself, David, before you kill others.
[David continues crying]
Jack: Please don't cry.
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David: I'm a werewolf.
Alex: Are you alright?
David: I don't know, I'll let you know the next full moon.
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Jack: David, you are hurting my feelings!
David: Hurting your feelings? Has it occurred to you that it might be unsettling to see you arise from the grave to visit me?
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[first lines]
Truck Driver: That way is Proctor, and over here is the moors. I go this way.
Jack: Thanks for the ride, sir. You have lovely sheep.
Truck Driver: Boys, keep off the moors, stick to the roads. The best to ya...
David: Thanks again.
[then to the sheep]
David: We'll miss you.
David: Bye girls...
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Jack: Beware the moon, David.
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[last lines]
Alex: I love you David.
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David: Maybe its a sheep dog... lets keep going
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Chess Player: There was this airplane over the Atlantic on its way to New York. It was full of men from the United Nations. So halfway over the ocean the engines run low on petrol so they have to lighten the plane. So they heave out all the baggage, but it's still too heavy. So they chuck out the seats, but it's still too heavy! Finally this Froggy steps up and shouts "Viva la France" and leaps out. Then an Englishman steps up and shouts 'God save the Queen!' and leaps out. But the plane is still too heavy. So the Yank delegate from Texas steps up, shouts, 'Remember the Alamo!' and chucks out the Mexican.
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David: [sees Jack in bathroom mirror and screams] You're not real!
Jack: Ah, dont be a putz David, come here. A nurse huh.?
David: [close's door] shhh, come on.
[to Jack]
David: what are you doing here?
Jack: I wanted to see you
[picks up Mickey mouse figure; high pitched]
Jack: Hi, David.
David: Put that down! Ok you've seen me now go away.
Jack: I'm sorry I'm upsetting you David, but you don't understand what's going on.
David: I understand all right, you're one of the undead and I'm a werewolf.
Jack: Yes, that's right.
David: Get out of here Jack.
Jack: Tomorrow night's the full moon, you're gonna change you'll become...
David: I know, I know... A monster.
Jack: You gotta kill yourself David, before it's too late.
David: Are you really dead Jack?
Jack: What do you think?
David: I think I've lost my mind i think you're not, I think you're just another part of bad dream.
Jack: You've gotta believe me David.
David: Believe what?, that tomorrow night under the full moon I'll grow hair and fang's and eat people, bullshit!
Jack: Oh goddamnit David please believe me!, you'll kill and make others like me I'm not having a nice time here. You gotta take your own life.
David: I will not accept this, go away!
Jack: This is not pretend David.
David: I will not be threatened by a walking meatloaf.
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Jack: Life mocks me... even in Death!
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David: It's a sheepdog or something. Come on, turn slowly. Let's walk away.
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David: [David has returned to Alex's flat wearing a womans coat] Good Morning. I'm freezing.
Alex: David. Where on earth have you been.
David: [excited] Alex you wont believe this. I have lost my mind. I woke up at the zoo.
Alex: The zoo?
David: [confused] What did I do last night?
Alex: You don't remember?
David: Well I remember seeing you to the door and waving goodbye, and getting locked out of the flat and coming in through the front window, I started to read then I woke up naked at the zoo.
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Dart Player: You made me miss... I have never missed that board in my life
[staring at David and Jack]
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Jack: Do you have any hot soup?
Barmaid: No.
David: Well, do you have any coffee then?
Barmaid: No.
Jack: Do you have any hot chocolate?
Barmaid: We've spirits and beers. If its something hot you want, you can have tea.
Jack: Then you have tea?
Barmaid: No.
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Jack: It's a pentangle, a five-pointed star. It's used in witchcraft. Lon Chaney, Jr., at Universal Studios maintained that's the mark of the Wolf Man.
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David: It wasn't a lunatic.
Alex: I beg your pardon.
David: It was an animal.
Alex: What?
David: A wolf.
Dr. J. S. Hirsch: Did he say wolf?
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Dr. J. S. Hirsch: If I survived Rommel, I can survive another excruciating evening with Roger Matheson.
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David: My memory is fine. It's my sanity I'm beginning to worry about.
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Alex: Let's try a little harder, shall we.
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Alex: Will I have to take such drastic action again, David?
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Dr. J. S. Hirsch: I'm certain if there were a monster roaming around northern England, we'd have seen it on the tele.
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Dr. J. S. Hirsch: You'll be leaving this hospital in three or four days. Please, remain sane. At least until you're no longer our responsibility.
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Alex: Remember, I'm just a working girl. So, don't expect too much.
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Alex: I'll be perfectly honest with you David, I'm not in the habit of bringing home stray, young American men.
David: I should hope not.
Alex: I find you very attractive - and a little bit sad.
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Alex: Perhaps you'd like to watch the tele, whilst I take a shower.
[next scene: Alex and David kissing in the shower]
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Alex: I'm torn between feeling very sorry for you and finding you terribly attractive.
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Dr. J. S. Hirsch: If the villagers believe that Jack Goodman was killed by a werewolf, why shouldn't David? And then it follows, that if he survived an attack by a werewolf, wouldn't he himself become a werewolf at the next full moon? Oh, I don't mean running about on all fours and howling at the moon; but, in such a deranged state he might harm himself. Perhaps other people.
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David: I don't know why I feel so good. I haven't felt this good in a long time! You know, my body feels great! I feel like an athlete. Let's go back to your place for a quickie, huh?
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David: Look at me, here I sit in a porno theatre in Piccadilly Circus talking to a corpse.
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David: That's easy for you to say. You're already dead.
Gerald Bringsley: No, David. Harry and I and everyone you murdered are not dead. The undead!
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David: I could hang myself.
Jack: No. No, if you did it wrong it could be painful. You'd choke to death.
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Jack: Oh shit David. What is that?
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Dr. J. S. Hirsch: Sister Hobbs said, there's a disturbance in Piccadilly Circus involving some sort of mad dog.
Alex: David.
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An American Werewolf in London
Director: John Landis
Language: English Release date: August 21, 1981