Mark Cardigan (Vincent Price): [Preparing to go out and rescue Dan Milner] Now might I drink hot blood and do such bitter business the earth would quake to look upon.
Helen Cardigan: [Rolling eyes] ‘Hamlet’ again…
Gerald Hobson: Mark, this is no time for histrionics.
Mark Cardigan: [Scoffing] What fools ye mortals be.
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Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum): I’m too young to die. How about you?
Mark Cardigan: Too well-known.
Dan Milner: Well, if you do get killed, I’ll make sure you get a first-rate funeral in Hollywood, at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
Mark Cardigan: I’ve already had it. My last picture died there.
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Mark Cardigan: I must rid all the seas of pirates.
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Mark Cardigan: [the rescue boat he was “commanding” has sunk beneath him] Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.