Confidential Report (1955)

Robert Arden: Guy Van Stratten

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• Gregory Arkadin : You're a fool. But, not a silly fool. And, I am not, ungenerous.

  Guy Van Stratten : Not, ungenerous? That means...

  Gregory Arkadin : Ten thousand dollars. Tax free, of course. You can have it in gold in Liechtenstein.

  Guy Van Stratten : Make it twenty thousand.

  Gregory Arkadin : You are a poor businessman, Van Stratten. You're bargaining before you know what's for sale.

• The Professor : Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. Crooks aren't the worst people, they're just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

  Guy Van Stratten : And murder?

  The Professor : My friend, after twenty thousand years, murder is still a business that's mainly in the hands of the amateurs.

• Guy Van Stratten : Don't think I'm trying to embarrass you, Senora Martinez.

  Sophie : You don't do anything to me, Mr. Smarty.

• Mily : Who is this man? You know we can't afford any trouble.

  Guy Van Stratten : Go get a doctor, quick!

  Bracco : Too late, for a doctor.

  Mily : What about the police?

  Bracco : Try to keep them away. I-I don't want to spend my last few minutes with a lot of cops.

• Mily : What gives with those crazy klu kluxers?

  Guy Van Stratten : They're Penitentes.

  Mily : Yeah, I know, but why are they dressed up like that for?

  Guy Van Stratten : They are doing penance. It means they're sorry for their sins.

  Mily : They must be awfully sorry.

• Guy Van Stratten : Why would a man want to escape from Poland?

  The Professor : Because, the past few years, my country has offered its people a wide variety of incentives for moving elsewhere.

• Guy Van Stratten : I'm sorry but you're going to have to talk to me. We got to get out of here. Look, if we don't start moving, right away, you're going to be killed! I mean that, murdered.

  Jakob Zouk : I'm a dying man with no money. Somebody wants to kill me? He's wasting his time.

  Guy Van Stratten : No money? Well, you could use some dough, couldn't you. How would you like to earn 500 marks?

  Jakob Zouk : Earn?

  Guy Van Stratten : Or, even a thousand! We could go to my hotel. No, that's no good, he might find us. We can go to another hotel and I'll get you a fine room with a nice bed and lots of warm, big, thick, heavy blankets.

  Jakob Zouk : Oh, yeah? And who are you? Santa Claus?

  Guy Van Stratten : I am the one who's going to keep you from getting murdered. Oh, I know you, sir, you're an old jail bird, just out of stir, an ex-dope pusher, the world's forgotten you. I wouldn't give you a thought if I didn't have to. If my own life didn't depend on it.

• Guy Van Stratten : Well, you know me.

  Raina Arkadin : Do I?

  Guy Van Stratten : Maybe not yet, honey, but you're going to.

  Raina Arkadin : Ha-ha-ha.

  Guy Van Stratten : What's so comical?

  Raina Arkadin : I like your being tough, its just too bad you're such a corn ball.

• Guy Van Stratten : I did a lot of traveling and asked an awful lot of questions before I learned the truth. From Helsinki to Leopoldville. Brussels. Belgrade. Beirut. To Reno and Trieste. Marseilles...

• Guy Van Stratten : Oh, you don't want to talk. That's what Oscar said.

  Jakob Zouk : O-O-Oscar, he's a drug addict. He'll never be well.

  Guy Van Stratten : I almost made him well. I got him out in the water. Took away his needle.

  [Cut to new scene inside a sail boat] 

  Oscar : I don't need to play my music for a pleasure cruise. Pleasure?

  [Shaking] 

  Oscar : I don't know how long we've been out on this boat? For how many days I've been without?

  Guy Van Stratten : Without your heroin!

  Oscar : You didn't throw it away did you?

  Guy Van Stratten : You'll get your junk when you start to talk.

  Oscar : I won't talk. I won't tell you anything.

• Guy Van Stratten : Hey, Mack, can you fix me up with a goose liver?

• Guy Van Stratten : Like I say, I had no time for the cigarette smuggling, they confiscated my boat, I was broke. So, when I got out, I had nothing else to do but look around and ask questions. Well, Mily wasn't waiting for me at the prison gates, but, I traced her down... to a nightclub, where she was doing a bubble dance.