Bob Hoskins credited as playing...
Eddie Mannix
- Chuck: You're not invited, Simo.
- Louis Simo: Were you?
- Chuck: We're working.
- Louis Simo: Why don't you lay off? Mister Harris!
- Rick Harris: Hello, Louis.
- Louis Simo: You come up from Palos Verdes just to see me?
- Rick Harris: I came here to celebrate my friends' anniversary. You've met Mister Mannix.
- Louis Simo: No. But we've got people in common. Ain't that right, Eddie?
- Eddie Mannix: I've got nothin' in common with you.
- Louis Simo: Bernice, the first missus. You like that car crash gimmick, huh?
- Eddie Mannix: Rick...
- Louis Simo: Riva Watson. She get all clingy? How'd it feel, pounding her face in? Happy times, huh, Ed?
- Eddie Mannix: Richard, please.
- Louis Simo: George Reeves...
- Rick Harris: That's enough, Louis.
- Louis Simo: Am I being indiscreet? Bad for business, huh?
- Rick Harris: Louis, your problems are your own.
- Louis Simo: Ricky, you cover for this prick?
- Rick Harris: Whatever you're pursuing here, whatever fantasy... you've constructed will not alter your past.
- Louis Simo: You had a bullet put in Reeves' head! He used the studio and the cops -
- [Chuck punches him in the stomach]
- Louis Simo: You're gonna burn in hell, you sonofabitch!
- Eddie Mannix: Come here. You don't know me. You don't know what I think. What I do. I don't let you.
- Louis Simo: You're an old man, Eddie. Who's gonna wipe the blood off your hands?
- Eddie Mannix: My hands? I'm in the picture business.
- Louis Simo: No, you're a murderer.
- Eddie Mannix: Prove it. You hear me? Go on, I'm ready. Prove one fuckin' thing.
- Eddie Mannix: People are waitin'. You comin' down?
- Toni Mannix: Help with the dress.
- Eddie Mannix: OK. I'm gonna let some light in. I wanna tell you somethin'. You know I'll always take care of you. Whatever's happened. Whatever might've been done, it doesn't matter. Nobody's gonna hurt you. Nobody gets to ask. I won't allow it. You're safe with me. With your husband. Let me see what you look like. You're beautiful. You always will be.
- Eddie Mannix: That - spic or wop, prick detective.
- Howard Strickling: I sent Jim Engelmann over. He used to work for us. I'm sure you don't want MGM coming into it.
- Eddie Mannix: And?
- Howard Strickling: Louis Simo. Two years with Rick Harris. He shot his mouth off about Susan Humphries to Confidential for $5,000. Harris fired him.
- Eddie Mannix: Susan Humphries?
- Howard Strickling: Jennifer Jones type. Under contract at Fox. Heroin addict.
- Howard Strickling: The business is changing.
- Eddie Mannix: Fags and television. And what are we, huh? The Last of the Mohicans.
- Eddie Mannix: What's the prick want?
- Howard Strickling: Money. Press. Whatever he can grab.
- Eddie Mannix: What's he got?
- Howard Strickling: Some questions.
- Howard Strickling: You have anything to tell me?
- Eddie Mannix: About what?
- Howard Strickling: Anything I need to have a story ready for.