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Lon Chaney Jr. and Evelyn Ankers in The Wolf Man (1941)

Maria Ouspenskaya: Maleva

The Wolf Man

Maria Ouspenskaya credited as playing...

Maleva

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  • [last lines]
  • Maleva: The way you walked was thorny though no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Now you will have peace for eternity.
  • Col. Paul Montford, chief constable: The wolf must have attacked her and Larry came to the rescue. I'm sorry, Sir John.
  • Gwen Conliffe: [Dismayed] Larry!
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  • Maleva: The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Your suffering is over, Bela my son. Now you will find peace.
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  • Maleva: You are not frightened, are you, Sir John?
  • Sir John Talbot: Frightened, of what?
  • Maleva: Of the night.
  • Sir John Talbot: Rubbish. You startled me.
  • Maleva: Don't be startled, Sir John. You have the silver cane for protection.
  • Sir John Talbot: Who are you?
  • Maleva: Hasn't your son told you?
  • Sir John Talbot: You're the gypsy that's been filling his mind with this werewolf nonsense!
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  • Maleva: You killed the wolf.
  • Larry Talbot: Well, there's no crime in that is there?
  • Maleva: The wolf was Bela.
  • Larry Talbot: You think I don't know the difference between a wolf and a man?
  • Maleva: Bela turned into a wolf and you killed him. A werewolf can only be killed by a silver bullet, or a silver knife...
  • [looks down at Larry's walking stick]
  • Maleva: ...or a stick with a silver handle.
  • Larry Talbot: You're insane! I tell you, I killed a wolf! A PLAIN, ORDINARY WOLF!
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  • Sir John Talbot: You've been preying upon his gullibility with your witch's tales.
  • Maleva: But you fixed him, didn't you, Sir John? You don't believe the witch's tales, do you?
  • Sir John Talbot: Not for a minute.
  • Maleva: Then where were you going, Sir John? Why aren't you back there, at the shooting stand?
  • Sir John Talbot: I was.
  • Maleva: Were you hurrying back to the castle? Did you have a moment's doubt? Were you hurrying to make sure he's all right?
  • Sir John Talbot: I wanted to be with my son. I was going back...
  • [a rifle fires in the distance]
  • Maleva: Yes, Sir John, you were going. Hurry, Sir John, hurry.
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  • Maleva: For a thousand years we Gypsies have buried our dead like that. I couldn't break the custom even if I wanted to.
  • Rev. Norman: Fighting against superstition is as hard as fighting against Satan himself.
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  • Maleva: [Larry shows Maleva his chest wound concealed under his shirt] Go now - and heaven help you!
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  • Rev. Norman: But my dear Maleva, we can't bury this man without prayer.
  • Maleva: There is nothing to pray for, sir. Bela has entered a much better world than this. At least, so your ministers always say, sir.
  • Rev. Norman: And so it is. But that's no reason to hold a pagan celebration. I hear your people are coming to town dancing and singing and making merry.
  • Maleva: For a thousand years, we Gypsies have buried our dead like that. I couldn't break the custom even if I wanted to.
  • Rev. Norman: Fighting against superstition is as hard as fighting against Satan himself.
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  • Maleva: Go now. And Heaven help you.
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  • Maleva: Whoever is bitten by a werewolf and lives becomes a werewolf himself.
  • Larry Talbot: Ah, don't hand me that. You're just wasting your time.
  • Maleva: The wolf bit you, didn't he?
  • Larry Talbot: Yeah. Yeah he did!
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