The Panic in Needle Park
- PG
- Year:
- 1971
- 110 min
- 3,005 Views
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( subway train approaching )
( doors open )
( passengers chattering )
CONDUCTOR:
(ON SPEAKER) 42nd street.CONDUCTOR:
(ON SPEAKER) 34th Street. Penn Station.Hun?
It hurt.
Did they treat you all right?
The place was dirty.
Well, sure, baby.
It was a-It was a free scrape.
It was a favor.
Can't expect Columbia Presbyterian.
No more favors.
Smoke a joint?
I told you to smoke a joint.
He said it was illegal.
The chick is sick.
She's all right.
You gonna play with your brushes,
or you gonna pay me?
- How much?
- $50.
- Come on!
- What are you talking about? You said you had it yesterday.
Well, yesterday was yesterday.
- Today's today, right?
- Right.
I'm splitting.
Okay. Okay, $50. Okay.
I know a guy. He owes me 100.
All right.
Is it any good?
I don't know.
I don't use it.
What do you want me to tell you, Marco?
It's from Tangiers? It's from Tangiers.
- Okay, I'm gonna get my coat.
- Okay.
What's the matter?
You all right?
What, are you cold?
Here.
Put this over you.
When I'm around,
I'll pick it up sometime.
- Okay, let's go.
- Okay.
I'll be back soon.
- Marco! Who did that?
- She did.
Oh, yeah?
All right,
how do you spell Reeves?
R-E-E-V-E-S.
R-E-E-V-E-S.
You a member of Blue Cross?
No, I'm not a member
of the Blue Cross.
- Member of any other medical plan?
- Jesus, I'm bleeding.
Look, I have to have
this information for my records.
Three pads in 10 minutes.
Oh, can I help you?
Uh, no. I'm going over to 424.
Yeah.
Oh, well, visiting hours happen to be over.
Come back tomorrow, okay?
Aw, that's my sister.
She's sick.
- I just flew in from Jersey City.
- Well, tomorrow at 2:00.
- 2:
00?- Right. 2:
00 to 5:00.Hey.
What are you doing here?
I come, uh, for my scarf.
- Oh.
- Remember?
Mm-hmm.
Um, how did you know I was here?
I know a guy down the hall in one
of the rooms, and he told me.
Said there's this terrific-looking
chick in room 424,
...so I thought I'd come and take a look.
You seen Marco?
Yeah, Marco.
He split.
He, uh...
He had a gig somewhere.
Well, you know them artists.
They're always splitting.
Hey, how'd you get in here?
I got my ways.
Um, what are you gonna do?
Where you gonna go?
I'm gonna go home.
Oh.
Where's home?
Fort Wayne.
Illinois.
I did time there.
No, I-it's Indiana.
- Indiana?
- Mm-hmm.
I did time there too, I think.
Yeah. Indiana.
Did time all over.
Hey, uh, I lost your scarf.
- Blew right off of my head.
- Terrible.
I tell you what. To make up for it,
you can draw a picture of me.
- I Can?
- Sure.
- You're a great artist.
- You!
- I said visiting hours are over.
- That's right. You told me that.
- Time to leave.
- I was just saying good-bye to my sister.
- And there are no planes from Jersey City, either.
- Oh, there are.
There's a helicopter,
lands on the Pan Am building.
Then a limousine takes you down.
It's terrific.
You're a wonderful dancer.
You know that?
Dyke.
( laughing )
Hey!
( hooting )
- Give my best to your old lady.
- Okay, I'll do it.
You're everywhere.
My scarf.
- You know I been in KY twice?
- KY?
KY. Lexington.
Oh.
Another thing.
I've been in jail eight times.
Don't congratulate yourself
on my time.
Oh!
Ten times?
How's 12 times?
I can't impress you.
- I told my brother about you...my brother Hank.
- You did?
Yeah.
He's gonna love you, man.
Only he better not love you too much
'cause I'll kick his ass.
You don't have to worry about money either.
I got plenty of that.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
I got nothin', man.
- Hey, we'll take a little trip. Want to take a trip?
- Mm-hmm.
- Ever been to Philadelphia?
- No.
Neither have I.
- What do you want to go to Philadelphia for?
- What?
You know, I never had an old lady around before.
They tie you down.
- You don't have to have one now.
- Don't say that.
I...
He didn't like
responsibility much.
- Who?
- Marco.
- You stuck on him or something?
- No.
Well, proves you ain't dumb.
- Who's this?
- Me.
He the father of that kid?
Who?
Marco who.
I guess so.
That's some answer.
You really got a place?
Nah. Not a regular place.
I got a lot of places.
Mmm.
Listen, you wanna do me a favor?
Just keep walking. Go ahead.
Don't look back. I'll be right back.
Just keep going.
- Merry Christmas.
- What are you gonna do with it?
- It's yours. Go ahead. I don't have a place for it.
- I don't even have a...
...come on. Take it.
How's it feel to steal something?
Twelve dollars.
This is UHF.
You get everything on here.
You want Chicago,
you get Chicago.
You get Turkey, I hear,
on this thing.
Come on.
I'll give you $15, okay?
Esther,
I'm a dope addict.
I heard that before.
Give me something new.
I'm a sex-crazed dope fiend.
Come on. Here. I'll give you $20, huh?
Twenty dollars!
- I'm dying from the dope, Esther.
- And I'm dying from hunger.
Go already,
will you, please?
( laughing )
Twenty-five dollars.
Twenty-three dollars.
Two dollars for the sandwiches.
- How you feel?
- Mmm.
What was it like
where you come from?
I mean,
when you was a kid growing up.
It was all right.
- I was born and went to school.
- Hmm. That's good.
I had a mother and a father
and a little brother and a lawn.
Terrific.
I was always going
to art classes,
...and my mother was always
going to the doctor.
It was all right.
Why'd you leave, then?
Don't just go around
leaving people for no reason.
I wouldn't.
Well, you shouldn't.
It ain't right.
I won't.
Good.
Hi.
Hi.
- How do you feel?
- Mmm.
You slept.
If you want to bad enough...
It's all right.
It's too soon.
We can.
Go to sleep.
Hey.
Oh. Good morning.
You're gonna kill yourself doing that.
I'm not hooked.
I'm just chipping.
You know what
the big thing at Marco's was?
What?
Grass brownies.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Where we going?
- Chico.
What's cooking?
How you taking it, man?
Slow, baby, slow.
Who's the chick?
- Hi. Helen.
- Helen, this is Chico.
- She feeding your arm?
- Aw, man.
- Hey, Bobby. You got anything, man?
- No.
- Sonny, this is Helen.
- Hotch has been around.
Oh, yeah?
Piss on Hotch.
Why don't you eat
your French fries?
Come on. You eat like a canary.
That's probably why you're sick all the time.
- See these things?
- Mm-hmm.
I've been living on these
since I was 10.
That's why I look so good.
( laughs )
I suppose you eat health food.
- I do not.
- Yeah?
How's a health food addict
like Needle Park?
- Here he is.
- Hey, Bobby, how are you? Good morning.
Mr. Sammy.
This is Helen. Sammy.
- How's your paranoia, eh?
- It's coming along.
Helen, how are you?
Shabba-doo, shabba-doo, shabba-doo
- I'll just take one. I'm on a diet.
- Have a French fry.
I'm gonna go see this guy down at...
( WHISPERING, INAUDIBLE )
Terrific.
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