Party Girl (1958)

Robert Taylor: Tommy Farrell

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• Thomas Farrell : What did you do before you were glamorized by the Golden Rooster?

  Vicki Gaye : Danced a little.

  Thomas Farrell : No talent?

  Vicki Gaye : I think so! No takers.

  Thomas Farrell : So, you gave it up.

  Vicki Gaye : It was that or give up eating.

  Thomas Farrell : And then?

  Vicki Gaye : Model.

  Thomas Farrell : Modeling for what? Calender art? Girlie magazines? Tell me when I'm warm.

  Vicki Gaye : Seems I don't have too.

• Thomas Farrell : Self-destruction among showgirls seems to be a kind of occupational hazard. Probably the cheery atmosphere of nightclub life.

• Thomas Farrell : A girl's entitled to what she can get. When you sell your pride, its tough to put a price on it.

• Rico Angelo : Get him some coffee.

  Thomas Farrell : I'll take it down there, Nick.

  Gangster : What's the matter with here?

  Rico Angelo : Shh! It's a chick! Chicks come first.

• Rico Angelo : He's a smart kid.

  Thomas Farrell : Brilliant. He's also a psychopath!

  Rico Angelo : You know, that's what I like about you, Tommy, you got class, big talk, fancy words. But, what's it mean?

  Thomas Farrell : He's insane, Rico. Crazy, Gone in the head.

  Rico Angelo : Why? Because he takes care of a few rats who got in his way? Maybe I done the same thing! Am I crazy too?

  Thomas Farrell : You're predictable, Rico. He isn't. He doesn't kill for business, he kills because he enjoys it. He's like a dog with the rabies, except he doesn't froth at the mouth. Someday he'll get around to that too.

  Rico Angelo : Look, maybe he froths, maybe he don't froth, all I know is he's in trouble.

• Thomas Farrell : By the way, our genial host of the evening, Mr. Rico Angelo, owns a sizable piece of the Golden Rooster. He might be able to do something for you. Seeing you're a dancer - for which I'll take your word. You might prefer that to parading around half-naked.

• Rico Angelo : Cookie La Motte, shake hands with Tommy Farrell.

  Cookie La Motte : [La Motte lamely holds out his hand; Farrell declines to shake it. La Motte looks awkwardly at Farrell, then at Angelo]  So this is your genius?

  Rico Angelo : [to Farrell]  Maybe you've heard of Cookie?

  Thomas Farrell : Oh, everyone's heard of Cookie. Youngest punk in Illinois ever to beat a murder rap. 16, weren't you, Cookie?

  Cookie La Motte : [pointedly]  15 and a half.

  Thomas Farrell : [with false politeness]  *Excuse* me.

• Thomas Farrell : [Giving his advice, regarding a possible indictment of Cookie by special investigator lawyer Jeffrey Stewart]  Get out of town, Cookie. If possible, get out of the state. You haven't got a prayer.

  Cookie La Motte : [Nonchalantly]  No? Why?

  Thomas Farrell : Too many witnesses against you.

  Cookie La Motte : "Witnesses"? For instance?

  Thomas Farrell : Well, to name a few, Manny Nichols, for instance. Saul Horseman, for instance. Frank Canneri. Lippy Burke. There's quite a list. I can't remember all of them.

  Cookie La Motte : [Starts to laugh mockingly]  Witnesses? Those guys are dead!

  Thomas Farrell : [Soberly]  That's what I mean, Cookie. Any investigator in his right mind knows who buried 'em.

• Rico Angelo : What do you say? What are his chances?

  Thomas Farrell : Do you want it quick? - - Get out of town Cookie.

• Thomas Farrell : Listen, gay boy, you don't run around knocking off State's Attorneys. It isn't being done this year. If Stewart gets a scratch on him, they'll run you down like a sewer rat!

• Jeffrey Stewart : There's one difference between us. I happen to be on the right side.

  Thomas Farrell : And I have no rights at all. Except, one. The right to be left alone, do you mind? I'd like to read my newspaper.

• Thomas Farrell : I was going to write to you today. Right now, it doesn't seem very important.

• Thomas Farrell : [having received an important phone call]  I have to leave. There's, uh, a meeting, a dinner.

  Vicki Gaye : A "dinner"? At two o'clock in the morning?

  Thomas Farrell : Ehh, that's normal for Rico Angelo.