Gwendolyn Chelm Quotes in Beat the Devil (1953)

Gwendolyn Chelm: Harry, we must beware of these men. They are desperate characters.

Harry Chelm: What makes you say that ?

Gwendolyn Chelm: Not one of them looked at my legs!

Gwendolyn Chelm: You know, I've changed my mind about you being an evil doctor. You're off to keep a rendezvous someplace in Africa sacred to the tribesmen. You're going to found a new empire, and make yourself master of the riches of the world. But you need a beautiful blonde queen to impress the natives as, ah, the incarnation of the Queen of Sheba. That's why you're making a pass at me.

Billy Dannreuther: Am I?

Gwendolyn Chelm: I am a British subject!

Billy Dannreuther: I wouldn't say that too loud.

Billy Dannreuther: I've got to have money. Doctor's orders are that I must have a lot of money, otherwise I become dull, listless and have trouble with my complexion.

Gwendolyn Chelm: But you're not like that now, and you haven't any money.

Billy Dannreuther: It's my expectations that hold me together.

Gwendolyn Chelm: I have a theory about you and your friends.

Billy Dannreuther: Correction - my associates.

Gwendolyn Chelm: As a matter of fact, I think you're doctors. Evil ones, I mean. You're going to the heart of the jungle where human life is cheap, to perform ghastly experiments which require the sacrifice of thousands on the altar of science.