Cold?
Alec
- Director
- David Lean
- Cast
- Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg
- Year
- 1945
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres
- romance film, drama film, flashback film
- Country
- United Kingdom
Facts: Wikidata (CC0), as of 2026-07-09
Surely you're not encouraging me to talk shop.
Alec
What exciting lives we lead.
Alec
It was Richard III who said 'My kingdom for a horse,' wasn't it?
Fred
And then I did see his face. It was rather a nice face.
Laura
I might be a musician.
Laura
It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading.
Laura
I've fallen in love. I didn't think such violent things could happen to ordinary people.
Laura
I wish you'd stop talking. I wish you'd stop prying and trying to find things out. I wish you were dead - no, I don't mean that. It was silly and unkind, and I shouldn't have said it. But I do wish you'd stop talking.
Laura
The British have always been kind to mad people.
Laura
You're the one person with enough kindness and wisdom to understand this, but Fred, you're the one person I can never tell. Never, never. Because even if I waited until we were old, old people, you'd be bound to look back over the years and be hurt.
Laura