Best movie quotes of 1958

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness picture

Jen-Ai: I like China the way it is.
Capt. Lin Nan: Filthy? Ignorant? Backward?
Jen-Ai: No, but if your house is dirty you can clean it.

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John McBain: It seems like everybody around here is stealing from everybody else.

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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman picture

Harry Archer: You know everyone's seeing satellites these days.

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The Lovers picture

Jeanne Tournier: You've no idea how important one's hairstyle is in Paris. It can be sleek or windswept, but it must be stylish. It's the hair that makes the dress chic. Thanks to hairstyling, you recognize.
Henri Tournier: Who?
Jeanne Tournier: Everyone. American women, Swedish women, Parisians, provincials - everybody.
Henri Tournier: There's some truth in that.

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Merchant Seaman: It may be a phoney war to you, but it's not to all the blokes at sea. Never has been.

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The Haunted Strangler picture

Supt. Burk: I've been back over the records, and given you at least a dozen cases - why on Earth choose this one?
James Rankin: It's the one clear case that'll prove my point! If Styles had had the money to buy an adequate defense, he never would have hanged.

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The Defiant Ones picture

Noah Cullen: Ni**er! You call me that again, and I'll kill you.

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Daffy Duck: Ho ho. Very funny. Ha ha. It is to laugh.

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Inspector Vigot: You know that it is a mistake to say that communism is appealing to the mentally advanced. I think it is only true when the mentally advanced are also emotionally retarded.

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It! The Terror from Beyond Space picture

Mary Royce: Every bone in his body must be broken. But I'm not sure that's what killed him.

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