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Sweet Smell of Success Page #26
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- 1957
- 96 min
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SIDNEY:
(solemnly)
Yeah, she's had a peck of trouble
for a kid...
Hunsecker flicks a look at Sidney. No one else, warier by
the minute, knows what to say. Hunsecker purrs onward:
HUNSECKER:
Susie likes to keep her girlish
secrets. But in her heart of
hearts I imagine, Dallas, that she
fancies you in an uncommon way.
Now, what about YOU, son? Not just
tom-catting around...I hope?
SUSAN:
(quickly)
J.J., Steve isn't...
Hunsecker cuts her off with lazy good nature:
HUNSECKER:
Take it easy, Susie. He wouldn't
be much of a man if he didn't
understand my concern. Would you,
son?
STEVE:
(pausing, quietly)
No, I wouldn't...
HUNSECKER:
(nodding)
Serious as a deacon...I like it. I
like your style, son! In a world
of old rags and bones, I like it!
For instance, take Sidney.
Hunsecker crosses toward Sidney.
HUNSECKER (CONT'D)
If Sidney got anywhere near Susie
I'd break a bat over Sidney's head!
(smiling faintly)
Sidney lives so much in a moral
twilight that, when I said you were
coming here, he predicted disaster.
You wouldn't take my favor -- you'd
chew up the job, he said, and spit
it right back in my face!
(sniffing)
Any truth in that...?
Steve is thrown for a loss momentarily; Frank steps in.
D'ANGELO
No, Mr. Hunsecker, and if I can
amplify --
HUNSECKER AND SIDNEY
HUNSECKER:
(motionless)
Don't amplify.
RESUME D'ANGELO, STEVE AND SUSAN
D'ANGELO
Steve wantsa thank you for this
favor. He --
GROUP SHOT:
SIDNEY:
(provocatively)
Frank, you don't listen! J.J. just
told you to shut your mouth!
STEVE:
(hotly)
Don't you think it's about time you
shut yours? Who are you to tell a
man like Frank D'Angelo to shut up?!
D'ANGELO
(warningly)
Steve, that isn't important --
But Steve, on a heated rip, has turned to Hunsecker:
STEVE:
Does he have to be here in our hair?
HUNSECKER:
HUNSECKER:
Why, has he bothered you before?
STEVE, D'ANGELO AND SUSAN
STEVE:
Is it news to you?
HUNSECKER:
HUNSECKER:
Son, lots of people tell me I'm a
gifted man, but I still can't see
around corners.
GROUP SHOT:
HUNSECKER:
(tolerantly)
Just exactly what are you so hot
about?
(waiting)
I mean, I know it's a difficult
thing to be an artist in this
crudest of possible worlds, but --
STEVE:
(impatiently)
Nuts! I'm not here as an artist!
I'm here as an average Joe, who
happens to love your sister Susie!
HUNSECKER:
(with ironic smirk)
Well, just be careful you don't
knock her down, huh?
Steve stops dead. Then, strangely and dangerously, he picks
up Hunsecker's smile. On each man's face the smile broadens
and grows up into a chuckle from each; but the meanness
still flickers around Hunsecker's mouth. Steve is out of
the net!
HUNSECKER:
(affably)
Frankly, son, you lost me on that
last hill. Just give us the punch
line...
STEVE:
(agreeably)
No punch line. Maybe I was just
admiring your know-how---yours and
Falco's.
HUNSECKER AND SIDNEY
HUNSECKER:
Why do you keep coupling me with
Falco?
STEVE, D'ANGELO AND SUSAN
STEVE:
(innocently)
He's here, isn't he? Do you think,
sir, when he dies he'll go to the
dog and cat heaven?
HUNSECKER AND SIDNEY
Even Hunsecker smiles. Sidney likes neither the ridicule or
the turn of events. He moves quickly past CAMERA.
SIDNEY, STEVE, D'ANGELO AND SUSAN
Sidney comes round the row of theatre seats to attack Steve.
SIDNEY:
Let's forget cats and dogs and
other pseudo-literary remarks---
I'll just lay it on the line! What
about that big rumpus in my office
today? You were there, Frank!
Where, according to St. Dallas, J.J.
was responsible for the Elwell smear!
HUNSECKER:
HUNSECKER:
Don't go wild, Sidney.
GROUP SHOT:
SIDNEY:
Wild? Take a look at them and see
who's wild...
Playing along nicely, Hunsecker looks at Steve and Frank and
slowly removes his arm from Susan; he pauses before asking
Dallas:
HUNSECKER:
What about that...?
D'ANGELO
(uneasily)
Steve was excited...he didn't mean
it exactly the way it's stated
here...
HUNSECKER:
(to Steve)
How did you mean it...?
SIDNEY SUSAN
What he likes to--- J.J., I don't want to say---
With a roar Hunsecker takes them both out of play; he stands
up.
SIDNEY, STEVE, D'ANGELO
Hunsecker enters from behind CAMERA.
HUNSECKER:
Both of you keep quiet!
(to Sidney)
You've made more damage here in one
minute than a plague of locusts!
If you're tired, Susie, sit down---
this needs investigation!
(to Steve, quieter)
How did you mean it...?
(waiting)
Come on, let's go! Let's go!...
Steve is cornered, the other completely out of play. He
pauses:
STEVE:
I don't take kindly to you and
Falco selling me ethics. Who's the
injured party here, you?
HUNSECKER:
(with contempt)
Right now you're in no position to
ask questions! And your snide
remarks---
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