Fourteen Hours (1951)

Richard Basehart: Robert Cosick

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• Robert Cosick : [Dejected]  Life stinks and you know it. It-- It's a rat race! It's a rat race! It-- It's a rat race!

  Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan : [Comforting, reassuringly]  Sure, but there's a lot in it-- There's a lot in it that's okay.

• Robert Cosick : Everybody lies to me!

• Robert Cosick : You should have ten good reasons for anything. That's a rule!

• Robert Cosick : If those cops come near me... I'll jump!

• Robert Cosick : [Obviously stressed, speaking to his mother]  I said go away! I've talked to you! Now go away! I can't stand everybody crowding me, trying to make me do things. I've got to make up my own mind. Take her away now!

  [Slips and falls to ledge] 

• Mr. Harris : [Leaning out window, looking at jumper, chastisingly]  You come in from there!

  Mr. Harris : You'll have to come in from there.

  Mr. Harris : The police will be here in a minute.

  Robert Cosick : [Shaking]  If those cops come near me --

  [pauses and turns] 

  Robert Cosick : I'll jump!

• Robert Cosick : [Clings to wall precariously]  You're nothin' but a stinkin' cop! You knew they were gonna do that! You were in on it!

  Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan : [Vehemently]  Shut up! Who do you think you're yelling at anyway? Who do you think you are? You open your trap to me like that just once more, and I'll come over and push you off!

  [Referring to police officer] 

  Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan : You realize he was risking his neck for you? You realize half the police force in New York is climbin' around on this hotel holding their breath to see what you're gonna do? You realize how much this city has paid for this phony 'Dutch act' of yours?

  Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan : [Continuing with contempt]  "I'm gonna jump. I'm not gonna jump. Don't anybody touch me. Give me a glass of water."

  Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan : [Excitedly]  Okay, kid, if you're gonna jump, go ahead! Jump!

  Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan : [Calmly, with contempt]  I got a belly full of you. I don't know why I bothered with you in the first place. Go on! Jump!

  Robert Cosick : [Hesitantly, pausing]  Wait a minute.

  [Pausing, defeated] 

  Robert Cosick : I'm sorry. I appreciate what you're trying to do. I'm sorry. I-- I could never talk to anybody the way that I've been able to talk to you. I could never talk to my father the way I've talked to you. I-- I'm sorry. I'm mixed up.

  Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan : [Calmly]  Don't you see your mother gave you a wrong steer about your father, kid? Don't you see he's really a-- a good Joe, and he likes you?

  Robert Cosick : [Calmly]  I guess so. I-- I don't know. I just don't know what to do.

  Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan : [Directly, firmly]  He's right here. Why don't you tell him you were wrong?

  [pause] 

  Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan : Why don't you?

  Robert Cosick : [Nodding]  Okay.

• Robert Cosick : Stay away from me... or I'll jump!