The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Frank Sinatra: Major Bennett Marco
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Quotes
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Bennett Marco : Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
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Bennett Marco : What's your name?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Eugenie.
Bennett Marco : Pardon?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : No kidding, I really meant it. Crazy French pronounciation and all.
Bennett Marco : It's pretty.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Thank you.
Bennett Marco : I guess your friends call you Ginny.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Not yet they haven't, for which I am deeply grateful... but you may call me Ginny.
Bennett Marco : What do your friends call you?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Rosie.
Bennett Marco : Why?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : My full name is Eugenie Rose. Of the two names I've always favored Rosie, 'cause it smells of brown soap and beer. Eugenie is somehow more fragile.
Bennett Marco : Still, when I asked you what your name was, you said it was Eugenie.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Quite possible I was feeling more or less fragile at that instant.
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Marco : It's not that Raymond Shaw is hard to like. He's IMPOSSIBLE to like!
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[last lines]
Bennett Marco : Poor Raymond. Poor friendless, friendless Raymond. He was wearing his medal when he died.
[reads from a book of U.S Army citations]
Bennett Marco : You should read some of the citations sometime. Just read them. Taken, eight prisoners, killing four enemy in the process while one leg and one arm was shattered and he could only crawl because the other leg had been blown off - Edwards. Wounded five times, dragged himself across the direct fire of three enemy machine guns to pull two of his wounded men to safety amid sixty-nine dead and two hundred and three casualties - Holderman.
[Puts the book down]
Bennett Marco : Made to commit acts too unspeakable to be cited here by an enemy who had captured his mind and his soul. He freed himself at last and in the end, heroically and unhesitatingly gave his life to save his country. Raymond Shaw... Hell... Hell.
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Bennett Marco : You in the railroad business?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Not anymore. However if you will permit me to point out, when you ask that question, you really should say: Are you in the railroad line?
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Eugenie Rose Chaney : Are you Arabic?
Bennett Marco : No.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Let me put it another way: are you married?
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Marco : [During the Kung Fu fight with Chunjin] How did the old ladies turn into Russians?
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Marco : Intelligence officer. Stupidity officer is more like it. Pentagon wants to open a Stupidity Division, they know who they can get to lead it.
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Marco : [During the Kung Fu fight with Chunjin] What was Raymond doing with his hands?
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Marco : [during the Kung Fu fight with Chunjin] What were you doing there?
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Bennett Marco : I remember... I remember. I can see that Chinese cat standing there and smiling like Fu Manchu saying: The Queen of Diamonds is reminiscent in many ways of Raymond's dearly loved and hated mother... and is the second key to clear the mechanism for any other assignment.
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Marco : I could never figure out what that phrase meant, "more or less."
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Eugenie Rose Chaney : Maryland is a beautiful state.
Bennett Marco : This is Delaware.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : I know, I was one of the original Chinese workmen who made the track on this stretch. But, em... nonetheless, Maryland is a beautiful state. So is Ohio for that matter.
Bennett Marco : I guess so, Columbus is a tremendous football town.
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Bennett Marco : I've been having this nightmare. A real swinger of a nightmare, too
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Col. Milt : [gesturing towards a pile of books] You read them all?
Marco : Yeah, they also make great insulation against an enemy attack! But the, uh, truth of the matter is that I'm just interested, you know, in, uh, Principles of Modern Banking and, History of Piracy.
[picking up books]
Marco : Paintings of Rothko. Modern French Theater. The... Jurisprudential Factor of Mafia Administration. Diseases of Horses and novels of Joyce Cary and... Ethnic Choices of the Arabs. Things like that.
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[Shaw has been conditioned to obey when seeing the queen of diamonds; Marco has brought a special deck of all queens of diamonds]
Raymond Shaw : They can make me do anything, Ben, can't they? Anything.
Bennett Marco : We'll see, kid. We'll see what they can do and we'll see what we can do. So the red queen is our baby. Well, take a look at this, kid...
[fans deck and keeps holding up the cards]
Bennett Marco : 52 of them! Take a good look at 'em, Raymond, look at 'em, and while you're looking, listen. This is me, Marco, talking. 52 red queens and me are telling you... you know what we're telling you? It's over! The links, the beautifully conditioned links are smashed. They're smashed as of now because we say so, because we say they are to be smashed. We're busting up the joint, we're tearing out all the wires. We're busting it up so good all the queen's horses and all the queen's men will never put old Raymond back together again. You don't work any more! That's an order. Anybody invites you to a game of solitaire, you tell 'em sorry, buster, the ball game is over.
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Sen. John Yerkes Iselin : No evasions, Mister Secretary, no evasions if you please.
Secretary of Defense : Evasions? What the hell are you talking about?
Secretary of Defense : [whispering to Marco] What the hell is this nonsense?
Marco : [covering the microphones] Mister Secretary, I'm kind of new at this job, but I don't think it's good public relations to speak that way to a US Senator, even if he is an idiot.
Sen. John Yerkes Iselin : I am United States Senator John Yerkes Iselin, and I have here a list of two hundred seven persons who are known by the Secretary of Defense as being members of the Communist Party!
Secretary of Defense : [amid shocked reaction from the crowd] What?
Sen. John Yerkes Iselin : Who nevertheless are still shaping the policy of the Defense Department!
Secretary of Defense : Senator who?
Sen. John Yerkes Iselin : I demand an answer, Mister Secretary! There will be no covering up, sir! No covering up!
Secretary of Defense : How did you get in here in the first place?
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Bennett Marco : You Arabic?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : No.
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Eugenie Rose Chaney : [Part 1 of 2 of the complete train dialog. Marco and Rosie have just met on the train and he is so discombobulated he can't even light his cigarette. She lights a cigarette for him and offers it to him. Pay close attention to the odd wording - as if it is in some kind of code] Maryland is a beautiful state.
Marco : This is Delaware.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : I know, I was one of the original Chinese workmen who laid the track on this straight. But, em... nonetheless, Maryland is a beautiful state. So is Ohio for that matter.
Marco : I guess so, Columbus is a tremendous football town. You in the railroad business?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Not anymore. However if you will permit me to point out, when you ask that question, you really should say: Are you in the railroad line? Where's your home?
Marco : I'm in the Army. I'm a Major. I've been in the Army most of my life, we move a good deal. I was born in New Hampshire.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : I went to a girl's camp once on Lake Francis.
Marco : That's pretty far north. What's your name?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Eugenie.
Marco : Pardon?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : No kidding, I really meant it. Crazy French pronunciation and all.
Marco : It's pretty.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Thank you.
Marco : I guess your friends call you Jenny.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Not yet they haven't, for which I am deeply grateful... but you may call me Jenny.
Marco : What do your friends call you?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Rosie.
Marco : Why?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : My full name is Eugenie Rose. Of the two names I've always favored Rosie, 'cause it smells of brown soap and beer. Eugenie is somehow more fragile.
Marco : Still, when I asked you what your name was, you said it was Eugenie.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Quite possible I was feeling more or less fragile at that instant.
Marco : I could never figure out what that phrase meant, "more or less." Are you Arabic?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : No.
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Marco : [Part 2 of the complete train dialog. Notice how she goes out of her way to make sure a complete stranger who is behaving strangely remembers her address and phone number. Why would she do this?] My name is Ben. I mean Bennett, named after Arnold Bennett.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : The writer?
Marco : No, Lt. Colonel. He was my father's commanding officer at the time.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : What's you last name?
Marco : Marco.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Major Marco. Are you Arabic?
Marco : No.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Let me put it another way: are you married?
Marco : No. You?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : No.
Marco : [pauses] What's your last name?
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Chaney. I'm production assistant for a man named Justin, who had two hits last season. I live on 54th St., a few doors down from the Museum of Modern Art, of which I'm a tea privileges member, no cream.
[Intently]
Eugenie Rose Chaney : I live at Fifty-Three West 54th St., Apt. 3-B. Can you remember that?
Marco : [Weakly] Yes.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Eldorado 5-9970. Can you remember that?
Marco : [Weakly] Yes.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : Are you stationed in New York? Or, is "stationed" the right word?
Marco : I'm not exactly stationed in New York, I was stationed in Washington, but I got sick and now I'm on leave and I'm spending it in New York.
Eugenie Rose Chaney : [Intently] Eldorado 5-9970.
Marco : I'm going to look up an old friend of mine who's a newspaperman. We were in Korea together.
[Fades into Raymond Shaw's apartment]
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Raymond Shaw : [after Shooting the Iselins, he turns to a surprised Marco] You couldn't stop them, the army couldn't stop them, so I had to. That's why I didn't call.
Marco : [He stares at him in confusion]
Raymond Shaw : Oh Ben!
Raymond Shaw : [Shoots himself with the rifle]
