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Don Hanmer and Robert Middleton in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Robert Middleton: Louis Koster

The Better Bargain

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Robert Middleton credited as playing...

Louis Koster

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  • Harry Silver: Once, centuries ago, there was a French hoodlum called Francois Villon. He was just like me, a no-good crook and a killer, but whenever he was in love, he'd turn into a poet. He wrote some great things. Just listen to this, King. " When death, that cheater of cheats comes knocking, and his voice grows near, where are the snows of yesteryear?" Do you like that, King?
  • Louis Koster: Yeah.
  • [last lines]
  • Harry Silver: Good. Now I think I'll kill you.
  • Harry Silver: Sorry to disturb you King, but I came back to say that I've changed my mind.
  • Louis Koster: About what?
  • Harry Silver: I'm not gonna do it.
  • Louis Koster: What do you mean?
  • Harry Silver: I'm not going to kill that guy.
  • Louis Koster: Why not?
  • Harry Silver: I'm just not in the mood to kill myself.
  • [first lines]
  • Baldy: King?
  • Louis Koster: Yes?
  • Baldy: Cutter's here again.
  • Cutter: [quotes his notes] The man, "I'm only human, I've a natural curiosity. You walk into my arms out of the blue like some goddess from a Greek myth."
  • Louis Koster: Is this fellow a Greek?
  • Cutter: Er no, he's just being poetical again.
  • Louis Koster: [laughing] So you like poetry too, huh?
  • Harry Silver: You wouldn't understand King. The only two things that a man should die for or live for are a poem or a woman like Marian.

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