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Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder, Jack O'Halloran, and Valerie Perrine in Superman II (1980)

Marc McClure: Jimmy Olsen

Superman II

Marc McClure credited as playing...

Jimmy Olsen

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Quotes3

  • Perry White: [upon Clark entering his office] Kent, I need a background story for the page three sidebar. Get me everything you can on this terrorist group.
  • Clark Kent: Right!
  • [is about to leave but stops]
  • Clark Kent: Uh, sorry. T... terrorists?
  • Perry White: Get your head out of the clouds, Kent! Where've you been for the past twelve hours?
  • Clark Kent: Uh, Home.
  • Perry White: Well, don't you watch television?
  • Clark Kent: Frankly, Mr. White, I really don't enjoy television. Too much violence. I was just reading Dickens.
  • Jimmy Olsen: [races in] Mr. Kent! A gang of terrorists seized the Eiffel Tower! In Paris!
  • Perry White: He knows where the Eiffel Tower is, Olson!
  • [afterthought]
  • Perry White: You do, don't you Kent?
  • Clark Kent: Yes, sir.
  • [to Jimmy]
  • Clark Kent: Has anybody been hurt?
  • Jimmy Olsen: Well, so far the hostages are unharmed.
  • Clark Kent: The hostages?
  • Jimmy Olsen: Yeah! Tourists! About twenty of them!
  • Perry White: Yeah, but that's just penny ante stuff. These guys claim that if the French government doesn't meet their demands, they've got a hydrogen bomb ready to level Paris.
  • Clark Kent: Well, jeepers Mr. White. Tha-that's terrible!
  • Perry White: That's why they call them "terrorists," Kent.
  • General Zod: [after rampaging through the Daily Planet, Zod thinks he has found Superman. He holds Jimmy way up by the collar] ... *This* is the son of Jor-El?
  • Jimmy Olsen: No, but I'll bet *you're* the son of a...!
  • Lois Lane: [cutting him off] *Jimmy!*
  • Jimmy Olsen: There's Mr. Kent. Bet he wishes he'd been around when it all happened.
  • Lois Lane: Clark, he's never around when Superman appears.

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