Edith Atwater
(as Mary)
Mary:
[Sidney Falco is at her desk] Have you seen this? Otis Elwell's column today?
Mary: [Falco feigns disinterest; Mary reads the piece from Elwell's gossip column aloud] "The dreamy marijuana smoke of a lad who had the high-brow jazz quintet, is giving an inelegant odor to that elegant East Side club where he works. That's no way for a card-holding Party member to act. Moscow won't like it, you naughty boy."
Mary: [Falco feigns disinterest; Mary reads the piece from Elwell's gossip column aloud] "The dreamy marijuana smoke of a lad who had the high-brow jazz quintet, is giving an inelegant odor to that elegant East Side club where he works. That's no way for a card-holding Party member to act. Moscow won't like it, you naughty boy."
Tony Curtis
(as Sidney Falco)
Mary:
If it's true, J.J.'s gonna hit the ceiling.
Sidney Falco: Can it be news to you that J.J.'s ceiling needs a new plaster job every six weeks?
Sidney Falco: Can it be news to you that J.J.'s ceiling needs a new plaster job every six weeks?
Edith Atwater
(as Mary)
Emile Meyer
(as Lt. Harry Kello)
Lurene Tuttle
(as Loretta Bartha)
Burt Lancaster
(as J.J. Hunsecker)
Burt Lancaster
(as J.J. Hunsecker)
Burt Lancaster
(as J.J. Hunsecker)
J.J. Hunsecker:
Harvey, I often wish I were dead and wore a hearing aid. With a simple flick of a switch, I could shut out the greedy murmur of little men.
Burt Lancaster
(as J.J. Hunsecker)
Burt Lancaster
(as J.J. Hunsecker)
J.J. Hunsecker:
How do you spell Picasso, the French painter?
[Taps out three letters on his manual typewriter upon hearing Sidney's response]
J.J. Hunsecker: It's an item - I hear he goes out with three-eyed girls.
[Taps out three letters on his manual typewriter upon hearing Sidney's response]
J.J. Hunsecker: It's an item - I hear he goes out with three-eyed girls.
