It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Dick Shawn: Sylvester Marcus
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Quotes
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Sylvester Marcus : I'm coming. That's what I'm here for. That's why you had me, Mama, to save you.
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Sylvester Marcus : [speaking into the phone] Mama, who's with you? Where are you talking to me... Where are you?
Mrs. Marcus : [speaking into the phone] I'm with this truck driver at Peterson's garage in a place called Plaster City. And will you just shut up a minute so I can tell you what happened!
Sylvester Marcus : [speaking into the phone] Now listen, Mommy, you listen to me close. You stay right there, because I'm coming, Mom. I'm coming to get you right now, Mom.
Mrs. Marcus : [speaking into the phone] Will you *shut up and listen*?
Sylvester Marcus : [speaking into the phone] Mama, it's all right. Everything's gonna be all right, Mama. Your baby's coming to get ya. You just sit there. Sit there, relax, take it easy.
Mrs. Marcus : [speaking into the phone] Sylvester...
Sylvester Marcus : [speaking into the phone] I'm coming to get you, Mom!
Mrs. Marcus : [speaking into the phone] ... shut up and let me talk...
Sylvester Marcus : [speaking into the phone interrupting his mother] Everything is gonna be all right!
[Sylvester hangs up]
Lennie Pike : [to Mrs. Marcus] Well?
Mrs. Marcus : So he's coming here. And I'm not to worry about a thing, because "everything is going to be all right!"
Mrs. Marcus : [to Emmeline] Exactly like your father: a big, stupid, muscle-headed moron!
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Sylvester Marcus : [Benji and Dingy run by] Who are they?
Mrs. Marcus : I don't know.
Sylvester Marcus : From this morning?
Mrs. Marcus : Yes.
Sylvester Marcus : [Captain Culpeper goes by] Who is he?
Mrs. Marcus : I don't know.
Sylvester Marcus : [Otto Meyer runs by] Who is he?
Mrs. Marcus : I don't know.
Sylvester Marcus : Mama, how many people are mixed up in this thing?
Sylvester Marcus : [as the two cab drivers run by] Who are they? Cabbies? Mama, this thing is like a convention.
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Melville Crump : Look, why don't we just start digging for it?
J. Russell Finch : Well suppose someone comes along? What do we tell them?
Monica Crump : Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.
Melville Crump : [annoyed] Aah!
Sylvester Marcus : We don't tell them anything. We tell them to hit the road or we beat their brains in!
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[Pike and Sylvester are digging into a hole that suddenly becomes too close]
Sylvester Marcus : Wait a minute, wait a minute. There's not enough room, Man, you're bugging me. You're bugging me.
Lennie Pike : What are you talking about 'bugging'?
Sylvester Marcus : Cut out, cut out.
Lennie Pike : What's this 'cut out' talk?
Sylvester Marcus : Out, baby. Out, baby. Out!
Lennie Pike : Don't call me a baby!
All : Would you just get out? Get on with it!
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Mrs. Marcus : Sylvester!
Sylvester Marcus : Mama!
Mrs. Marcus : Why couldn't you listen? Why couldn't you shut up when I was trying to tell you to listen?
J. Algernon Hawthorne : Have a care, that chap's run absolutely amok!
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Benjy Benjamin : [in a hospital in bandages and casts] It's all your fault. It's all your fault right from the beginning to the end.
J. Algernon Hawthorne : You know, even for a policeman, your behavior was ruddy outrageous.
Sylvester Marcus : Yeah, you could have taken a fair share like the rest of us, but no. You had to go and wrap up the whole scene, baby.
Ding Bell : We had three hundred and fifty-thousand bucks right in our hands.
Melville Crump : Fourteen into three hundred and fifty-thousand dollars...
Ding Bell : [groans] Oh, shut up!
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Sylvester Marcus : You could've taken a fair share like the rest of us but no, you had to grab up the whole scene, baby.
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Mrs. Marcus : "No matter what you've all done today, you're really not criminals". Ha! Of all the snooty, patronizing...
Mrs. Marcus : [to Pike] You're stepping on my foot!
Sylvester Marcus : Would you get off Mama's foot?
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[last lines]
[Mrs. Marcus, Emmeline and Monica enter the hospital room where all the men are in traction, their entrance right after Benjy had thrown a banana peel on the floor]
Mrs. Marcus : [yelling] Now see here, you idiots, it's all your fault, because if you hadn't...
[Mrs. Marcus slips on the banana peel and falls back-first on the floor]
Sylvester Marcus : Mama!
[all the hospitalized men, except Sylvester and Captain Culpeper, burst out laughing uproariously as Mrs. Marcus is put on a stretcher and taken away]
Mrs. Marcus : [yelling] Don't you dare touch me! Get away from me! Let me go! Leave me alone...
[Captain Culpeper joins the laughter]
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Sylvester Marcus : That's my mommy. She's gone crazy or something. *Maybe rape, oh*!
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Sylvester Marcus : Mommy, you got nothing to worry about. Your baby's coming. Your baby's coming to save you, Mama!
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Sylvester Marcus : Ha-ha! Go! Go baby, go! Ha-ha! Yes, yes! Ha-ha! Yes, yes! Ha-ha! Yeah, yeah! Go, baby! Ah, yes! Ha-ha! Ha-ha! Oh! Ha-ha-ha! That's it baby. Don't stop. Go! Wow!