Answers to Sterling Silver Dialogue #19

Sterling Silver Dialogue #19: (Answers)

"I'm surprised that you're going away with him."

(response) "I'm surprised you think I would. Why the guy's no good, never was any good, never will be any good. He was born that way. His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."

Libby Taylor as Jasmine, speaks first with Mae West as Ruby Carter 

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“The stork that brought you should have been arrested for peddling dope.”

Lloyd Nolan as Michael Shayne (speaks to Mary Beth Hughes as Joanne La Marr) in Dressed to Kill (1941)

"You, on the level? Why for six bits you'd hang your mother on a meat-hook."

Mark Stevens as Bradford Galt (on the right, responds to Kurt Kreuger as Anthony Jardine) in The Dark Corner

"You'll always be a two-bit cannon and when they pick you up in the gutter dead, your hand'll be in a drunk's pocket."

Murvyn Vye as Capt. Dan Tiger (speaks to Richard Widmark as Skip McCoy) in Pickup on South Street

"I remember the first time you told me that... that you were just one punch away from the title. Don't you see Bill, you'll always be one punch away."

Audrey Totter as Julie (speaks to Robert Ryan as Stoker) in The Set-Up

"... you don't know what a love affair is."

(response) "It's what goes on between a man and a .45 pistol that won't jam."

Dan Riss as Maury Ahearn speaks first to Alan Ladd as Al Goddard

"Prayer's not gonna keep you from being killed."

(response) "People don't pray to keep from dying. They pray to keep from being disappointed when they do."

Alan Ladd as Al Goddard speaks first to Phyllis Calvert as Sister Augustine 

(The above are from)

"It was the bottom of the barrel and I scraped it, but I didn't care. I had her."

Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey

"Oh Jeff, you ought to have killed me for what I did a moment ago."

(response) "There's still time."

Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat speaks first to Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey

(The above are)

"If I had been a ranch they would have named me the Bar Nothing."

Rita Hayworth as Gilda Mundson in Gilda

"You know, Johnny, when you play solitaire you can only beat yourself."

Barton MacLane as Detective Strecker

"My old man always said, liquor doesn't drown your troubles... just teaches 'em to swim."

Gene Lockart as Warni Hazard (on left speaks to George Raft as Johnny Torno)

"You can't take the law into your own hands! Things aren't done that way!"

(response) "That depends on who's doing them."

Virginia Mayo as Carla North speaks to George Raft as Johnny Torno

(The above are from)

"Of course, killing you is killing myself. It's the same thing. But you know, I'm pretty tired of both of us."

Everett Sloane as Arthur Bannister (speaks to Rita Hayworth as Elsa Bannister) in The Lady from Shanghai

"This guy's got 'em like that. He's everything they say he is!

(response) "What about you, Sal? Are you everything they say you are?"

Tony Lo Bianco as Sal Boca speaks first to Harold Gary as Joel Weinstock 

(The above are from)

"There's a lot of nobility in this room. Must be the panelling."

Michael Douglas as Superior Court Judge Steven R. Hardin in The Star Chamber

"Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport... or lust... or greed. Yea he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair: for he is the harbinger of death."

Roddy McDowall as Cornelius in Planet of the Apes (1968)

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