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And it's very beautifully described, the way she sees him. He looks like a bronze 'Apolo.'

6 seconds sound clip from the In a Lonely Place movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:10:32.485 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- How do you want me to tell you the story?

- Just the way you'd tell it to your Aunt Cora.

- Well, it's about this woman, 'Alathea' Bruce. She's very rich, see. She owns this big mansion on Long Island, smack on the ocean.

- She's got sailboats and cars and jewels and everything. And she's a widow.

- Mmm. Lucky Althea.

- Uh-huh.

- She's got many men in her life. And they all take her to the Stork and the 21 Club and the El Morocco. But they don't send 'Alathea.' -Uh, Althea.

- Then one day she looks out and she sees a new lifeguard standing outside her window.

- And it's very beautifully described, the way she sees him. He looks like a bronze 'Apolo.'

- Oh, I do hope it's gonna be in Technicolor.

- Yeah, I'll be sure to suggest that to the producer.

- I would!

- Well, then 'Alathea' sends her English butler to ask Channing, that's the lifeguard, to have breakfast with her, but instead they have whiskey sours.

- It's a very risky scene.

- Oh! Did I tell you about her husband?

- Well, you told me he was dead.

- No, no, I mean about the way he died.

- You see, he fell out of a sailboat when he and 'Alathea' went sailing, and there's an investigation going on.

[...]

In a Lonely Place Sound Clip

In a Lonely Place (1950) posterListen to memorable quotes and funny lines from the classic 1950 film noir "In a Lonely Place".

Actors: Humphrey Bogart (Dix Steele), Gloria Grahame (Laurel Gray)

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