Run a Crooked Mile Quotes

Run a Crooked Mile is a Drama that first aired in 1969 on NBC. Run a Crooked Mile ended its run in 1970.

It features Ian Lewis (producer) as producer, Mike Leander as theme composer, and Arthur Grant (cinematographer) as head of cinematography. Run a Crooked Mile is executive produced by Charles F. Engel.

Run a Crooked Mile is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Run a Crooked Mile is 100 min. long. Run a Crooked Mile is produced by Universal Television and distributed by NBC.

The cast includes: Louis Jourdan as Richard Stuart, Alexander Knox as Sir Howard Nettleton, Mary Tyler Moore as Elizabeth Sutton, Wilfrid Hyde-White as Dr. Ralph Sawyer, Norman Bird as Sgt. Hooper, and Terence Alexander as Peter Martin.

Run a Crooked Mile Quotes

Louis Jourdan as Richard Stuart

• (Louis Jourdan) "And you were in my dream, Ralph. You were helping these people. Every time I had doubts, every time my new identity began to slip, you were there to reassure me. Isn't that odd? Then, all of a sudden, I was on a polo field, falling from a horse. And in that one instant, I realized --"
• (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "Mmn; yes, you must forgive me, I hadn't realized it was so late."

• (Louis Jourdan) "What is this about a club?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Across the lake. There's a garden party tonight."
• (Louis Jourdan) "I think we should go."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Under these circumstances?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "Why not? I think it's time to see how my other half lived."

• (Roger) "Do you know why Big Ben is called Big Ben, Mr. Stuart?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "No, but I have a feeling I'm going to."
• (Roger) "Big Ben was named for Sir Benjamin Hall, commissioner of works during the time it was built in 1859, during the reign of Queen Victoria. It stands three hundred and twenty nine feet tall, and contains a bell weighing thirteen tonne. You didn't hear a word I said, sir."
• (Louis Jourdan) "Oh, a few of them."

• (Louis Jourdan) "What is this key for?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Dr. Sawyer said that is belonged to your father, and if you ever asked for an explanation, he'd give it to you."
• (Louis Jourdan) "And Tony never did, of course?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "No."
• (Louis Jourdan) "That key, Elizabeth, was a calculated risk. A constant challenge to my memory; or lack of memory. The bait, you see. As long as I didn't inquire about it, my past was locked."

• (Louis Jourdan) "I've decided I don't like Tony Sutton; or his friends. Is that all he did? Go to parties and play polo?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Well, he didn't have to do anything else, he was rich."
• (Louis Jourdan) "A rich playboy -- polo, skiing in St. Maritz, cruising the Mediterranean with the jet set. What a life. A whole world coming apart at the seams, and all Tony Sutton can do is bounce about like a rubber ball."

• (Louis Jourdan) "Ralph, all these years you've been a secret romantic, and you've never told me. But then of course we never really knew each other. Did we?"

• (Louis Jourdan) "Elizabeth, do we like to dance?"

Wilfrid Hyde-White as Dr. Ralph Sawyer

• (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "Richard, I've had two vices; poetry and gambling. Poetry enriches the soul, gambling depletes the bank account."

• (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "Richard, there's something I want you to understand: in spite of what you think, I'm your friend."
• (Louis Jourdan) "I believe you Ralph, I believe you. But you chose a heartwarming way of expressing it tonight."

• (Wilfrid Hyde-White) "In secret we met / In silence I grieve / That thy heart could forget, / Thy spirit deceive."
• (Louis Jourdan) "If I should meet thee / After long years, / How should I greet thee? / With silence; and tears."

Alexander Knox as Sir Howard Nettleton

• (Alexander Knox) "One final matter, under the heading of new business, gentlemen. Or perhaps I should say old business renewed."

Mary Tyler Moore as Elizabeth Sutton

• (Mary Tyler Moore) "And then you would fall into fits of depression that lasted days, sometimes weeks -- always inside yourself. And you drank. Richard, you tried to drink yourself to death."
• (Louis Jourdan) "Why did you marry me?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "I loved you. You needed help, and I thought I could give it to you. I loved you. How do you think I feel, when you say I'm part of a plot? I know nothing about it."
• (Louis Jourdan) "But you wanted a divorce. Why?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "I couldn't go on being only a nurse to you."

• (Mary Tyler Moore) "You seem different."
• (Louis Jourdan) "Different better, or different worse?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Different better; Tony would never have held me this close."
• (Louis Jourdan) "I'm sorry, I am Tony Sutton. I must play the part; we are being watched."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "You just allowed yourself the luxury of trusting me, didn't you?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "You know me better than I do."

• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Good morning."
• (Louis Jourdan) "Good morning."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "It's a nice car."
• (Louis Jourdan) "I'll never be able to afford one as a school master. Will you marry me?"
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "But we are married."
• (Louis Jourdan) "No, you're married to Tony Sutton."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "I'd like very much to marry you."
• (Louis Jourdan) "We'll fix that."

• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Richard, I'm afraid."
• (Louis Jourdan) "Yes."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "You afraid?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "Yes."
• (Mary Tyler Moore) "Are they going to kill us?"
• (Louis Jourdan) "No."

Norman Bird as Sgt. Hooper

• (Norman Bird) "Suppose you first show me precisely where all this took place."
• (Louis Jourdan) "Just you alone?"
• (Norman Bird) "I represent the law, sir."

Terence Alexander as Peter Martin

• (Terence Alexander) "My coat of arms, Mr. Stuart, if I had one, would bear the motto "rapid service", inscribed on a field of blue."

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