Some Came Running (1958)

Frank Sinatra: Dave Hirsh

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• Frank Hirsh : Made up your mind what you're gonna do, now that you're out of the army?

  Dave Hirsh : Sure, never to go in it again.

• Gwen French : Seriously, your first novel was more or less autobiographical, wasn't it?

  Dave Hirsh : I thought it was more or less lousy.

  Gwen French : Well, that isn't so. It might have lacked something in craftsmanship; but, it's a really powerful study of rejection.

  Dave Hirsh : Oh, that it was. It was rejected by 42 publishers and almost all of the English-reading public.

• Gwen French : Oh! We'll have no more of that. I'm not one of your barroom tarts!

  Dave Hirsh : You're right, teacher. You're a hundred percent right. I've been a bad boy. I've been naughty. Matter of fact, I don't even belong in your class.

  Gwen French : Quite possibly you don't.

  Dave Hirsh : Well, you won't get a chance to flunk me again.

• [In reference to Dave Hirsh's Brother, Frank] 

  Hotel Clerk : You don't look like him.

  Dave Hirsh : Thanks

• Dave Hirsh : [to bartender, as he exits and leaves a tip]  Buy yourself a Quonset hut.

• Dave Hirsh : A little talent to a writer means about as much as a little talent to a brain surgeon.

• Frank Hirsh : I told the judge you'd be leaving town.

  Dave Hirsh : Did you tell him where I was going?

  Frank Hirsh : How do I know where you're going?

  Dave Hirsh : How did you know I was leaving?

  Frank Hirsh : Aren't you?

  Dave Hirsh : Yeah, I guess so.

• Gwen French : Oh, Dave, we've met exactly three times. What do I know about you? What do you know about me?

  Dave Hirsh : I just know that I'm the kid who wants to marry you. Gwen, it's something I want more than anything else in the world.

• Dave Hirsh : You know my brother?

  Bama Dillert : Well, he don't send me no Christmas cards.

• Dave Hirsh : That girl, uh, very attractive.

  Frank Hirsh : What girl?

  Dave Hirsh : Your secretary.

  Frank Hirsh : I never really noticed. I make it a rule not to, uh... with employees. If you're getting any ideas, forget them. She's strictly a nice girl.

  Dave Hirsh : All girls are nice, brother.

  Frank Hirsh : Yeah. You'll get no argument from me there.

• Doctor : I'm afraid we're going to have to keep you here for a while, Mr. Dillert.

  Bama Dillert : Now, what is this? A hospital or a jail?

  Doctor : It's not a question of legality. It's a question of professional responsibility. You're a sick man, Mr. Dillert. Oh, not from the knife wound - that was slight. But we discovered quite accidentally that you have rather an advanced case of... diabetes mellitus.

  Bama Dillert : I got what?

  Dave Hirsh : Diabetes?

  Doctor : I noticed there was considerable alcohol content in your blood test. How much whiskey do you drink in a day, Mr. Dillert?

  Dave Hirsh : That's a pretty good question.

  Bama Dillert : Oh, I don't rightly know, Doc. Maybe a fifth, maybe less. I don't know.

  Dave Hirsh : Maybe more...

  Doctor : Of course, you'll have to stop drinking, Mr. Dillert. Alcohol adds an enormous amount of sugar to the blood. You need treatment, Mr. Dillert. Immediate treatment.

  Dave Hirsh : You mean it's that serious?

  Doctor : The rate Mr. Dillert is going now, it's more than serious.

  Bama Dillert : All right, you've done your duty, doc. Now, you just tell me what I have to do to get out of this place without busting down that door and I'll be obliged.

  Doctor : [Reluctantly]  I'll, uh... send up a release for you to sign.

• Dave Hirsh : Well, ain't that a kick in the head!

• Ginnie Moorehead : You know the only time you talk nice to me is when you're loaded?

  Dave Hirsh : Let's get loaded.

• Al - Jewelry Store Clerk : Well, what can I show you, sir?

  Dave Hirsh : Got something in nose rings?

  Al - Jewelry Store Clerk : Huh?

  Dave Hirsh : Nothing too expensive. I know a little kid in the Congo. She gets restless.

• Dave Hirsh : I asked you?

  Ginnie Moorehead : Well, if you didn't, you don't think I would've come do you? What am I? A tramp or something?

• Frank Hirsh : A man ought to pick his spot - not go wandering all over the world.

  Dave Hirsh : Isn't that what they told Columbus?

• Dave Hirsh : [to Dawn]  I hardly know you. Last time I saw you, you were stark naked in your bathtub.

  Agnes Hirsh : Oh, Dave, you rascal, you're making her blush.

  Dawn Hirsh : Not me.

• Dave Hirsh : I'm told that you teach creative writing.

  Gwen French : Yes, I do.

  Dave Hirsh : Would you like to teach me?

• Dawn Hirsh : I envy you, Dave.

  Dave Hirsh : You do? Why?

  Dawn Hirsh : Well, you left home on your own before you were my age, lived your own life, had experiences. A girl couldn't do that.

  Dave Hirsh : Why would she want to?

• Dawn Hirsh : Bumming around, doing all sorts of jobs. Didn't that help to make you a writer?

  Dave Hirsh : Dawn, honey, bummin' around can only help make you a bum.

• Frank Hirsh : Say, are you folks ready for some elbow-bending?

  Professor Robert Haven French : I am.

  Agnes Hirsh : Elbow-bending. He's used to talking down to traveling salesmen. Sweetheart, our guests are intellectuals.

  Professor Robert Haven French : What are intellectuals?

  Dave Hirsh : Underpaid.

• Gwen French : Do you always drink this much?

  Dave Hirsh : Only when I have money.

• Gwen French : I wear my hair this way to please the school board. If you wanna flatter me, I've only one good feature: my mind. You'd be on safer ground.

  Dave Hirsh : Who wants to be on safer ground?

• Gwen French : [Dave moves close to Gwen while she's driving]  I have a theory that writers create to compensate for some lack in their personal lives.

  Dave Hirsh : That's because we need to be stimulated.

• Gwen French : When I suggested there might be a lack in your life, I wasn't offering myself as compensation.

  Dave Hirsh : No, but that's a peachy idea. Why don't we just go park somewhere and talk it over?

  Gwen French : Mr. Hirsh, do I look like a delinquent teenager?

  Dave Hirsh : No, you don't, teacher.

• Ginnie Moorehead : What I really wanna do is modeling. But you gotta have a figure like a boy.

  Dave Hirsh : Yeah. And that you haven't got.

• Bama Dillert : How about a little relaxation?

  Dave Hirsh : You know these dames?

  Bama Dillert : Well, who don't? That's the night shift from the brassiere factory.

• Ginnie Moorehead : I drink too much, and the first thing you know, you get bloated.

  Dave Hirsh : Well, life fluctuates, you know

• Frank Hirsh : How could you do this to *me*?

  Dave Hirsh : Me, me, me, me. Don't you ever get tired of thinking about your dull, greedy, small self?

• Dave Hirsh : You know what I don't figure? You drink three drinks to my one - and you look like a milk-fed quarterback.

  Bama Dillert : Well, now, that all depends on what a man's cut out for.

• Dave Hirsh : What are you going to prove by becoming a tramp?

  Dawn Hirsh : I'm not going to become a tramp.

  Dave Hirsh : It doesn't take long, honey. A couple of more goons like that guy who picked you up back there and a little booze and - well, I ought to know, I'm an expert on tramps.

• Dave Hirsh : [reading his published article]  "And before he was aware of it - he was lost. There wasn't much time left and he realized that he would have to return over familiar ground - running to reach the point at which he could start all over again."

  Ginnie Moorehead : Is that the end?

  Dave Hirsh : Did you like it?

  Ginnie Moorehead : Oh, golly. I liked it fine, Dave. I really liked it a lot.

  Dave Hirsh : That means not very much.

  Ginnie Moorehead : No, honest, I really liked it a lot. Golly, just think you can put those words down on paper like that - and all I can do is hem brassieres.

• Ginnie Moorehead : You know I'd do anything for you, Dave. I'd do anything, ask me.

  Dave Hirsh : Would you, uh? Would you clean up the place for me?

  Ginnie Moorehead : Oh, could I?

  Dave Hirsh : Sure.

  Ginnie Moorehead : Oh, sure. Oh, I'd love to! Oh, why, sure. Oh, I'd love to! I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll come every day before work. You just call me. But you gotta remember, I'm human.