Walk Show

In this place "Even stars come to die,"
Their last trace a bright scar in the sky
"But the great ones still glow
On the Late, Late, Late show,"
Their new faces bizarrely awry.

David Cairns with Surly Hack

Paul Holland (Tom Conway) explains his views on shooting stars and life in the Caribbean to Betsy Connell (Frances Dee) in I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur; 1943). Here is the dialog from the scene:

Paul Holland: It's not beautiful.

Betsy Connell: You read my thoughts, Mr. Holland.

Paul Holland: It's easy enough to read the thoughts of a newcomer. Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies. The glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.

Betsy Connell: You can't really believe that.

Paul Holland: Everything good dies here. Even the stars.