Answers to Sterling Silver Dialogue #23

Sterling Silver Dialogue #23: (Answers)

Special Film Noir Edition

"You know how it is, early in the morning, on the water. Everything’s quiet, except for the seagulls, a long way off. And you feel great. Then you come ashore, and it starts. And in no time at all, you’re up to your ears in trouble. And you don’t know where it began."

John Garfield as Harry Morgan (opening narration) in The Breaking Point

"You don't think very much of people, do you?"

(response) "I don't think very much of anything."

Keith Andes as Larry Fleming (centre) asks Stephen McNally as Sam Hurley

"You ever been locked up?"

(response) "Not the way you mean."

(reply) "I don't care what way it is. Some people can stand it and some people can't. The ones who can't would kill themselves and anybody else just to get out for five minutes."

Stephen McNally as Sam Hurley asks Alexis Smith as Kay Garven

(Both of the above exchanges are in)

"In this world, you turn the other cheek and you get hit with a lug wrench."

Brian Donlevy as Walter Williams (speaks to Ella Raines as Marsha Peters) in Impact

"Don’t ever change Tiger. I don’t think I’d like you with a heart."

Dan Duryea as Danny Fuller (speaks to Lizabeth Scott as Jane Palmer) in Too Late for Tears

"She looked like a very special kind of dynamite, neatly wrapped in nylon and silk. Only I wasn't having any. I'd been too close to one explosion already. I was powder shy."

Robert Young as Larry Ballentine (narrates to a jury about Susan Hayward as Verna Carlson) in They Won’t Believe Me

"Too bad Nick took the car."

(response) "Even if the car were here we couldn't take it, not unless we'd want to spend the first night in jail. Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing... but stealing his car, that's larceny.

Lana Turner as Cora Smith speaks first to John Garfield as Frank Chambers

"I don't like this place."

(response) "It's a good spot. I used to come here with my girl when I was a kid.

(reply) It's more frightening than romantic.

(response) It's the way love is when you're young... life is when you're older."

Ann Sheridan as Eleanor Johnson speaks first to Dennis O’Keefe as Dan Legget in

"What’s happened to business, anyway? Got nothin’ to do but sit here dopin’ the horses. How do you like Killie in the 7th?"

(response) "Eh, she’ll still be runnin’ when they start the 8th."

Morgan Brown as Harry (Diner Proprietor) speaks first to Robert Mitchum as Frank Jessup

"Oh, your breakfast is on the table, darling."

(response) "Where else would it be?"

Jane Wyatt as Sue Forbes speaks first to husband Dick Powell as John Forbes in

"They tried to get her last night."

(response) "They. A wonderful word. And who are they? They're the nameless ones who kill people for the great whatsit. Does it exist? Who cares. Everyone everywhere is so involved in the fruitless search for what. Why don't you turn her over to Pat? It's his job to protect her, if she needs protection. Or to question her if that's what's needed. Why are you always tryin' to make a noise like a cop?"

Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer speaks first to Maxine Cooper as Velda Wickman in

"I never met Parry... but I know psychologically he's no killer. He was just dumb.

(response) "What makes you think you're so smart. All you know is T-squares and drafting boards and not even much about them or anything else!"

(reply) "We've been through all of that before! A couple of hundred thousand times. A couple of hundred thousand years ago when I was a monkey and thought I wanted to marry you."

Bruce Bennett as Bob speaks first to Agnes Moorehead as Madge Rapf

(To the partygoers) "Seems I've lost my manners or would anyone here know the difference?"

Alan Ladd as Johnny Morrison in The Blue Dahlia

"What do you know about anything? You probably had your bread buttered on both sides since the day you were born. Safe. Safe on first, second, third, and home."

Dennis O’Keefe as Joe Sullivan (speaks to Marsha Hunt as Ann Martin) in Raw Deal

"You're dead, son. Get yourself buried."

(and)

"Don't remove the gangplank, Sidney, you may wanna get back onboard."

Burt Lancaster as J.J. Hunsecker

"The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river."

Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco

(The above three quotes are)

Sterling Silver Dialogue #24 is here.