The part where Marion has the new car and is imagining conversations. When the client says "even flirtin' with me!" I always love the emphasis on "even," as if that's the most egregious crime of all, violating the sanctity of flirtin. So droll.
The part where Marion has the new car and is imagining conversations. When the client says "even flirtin' with me!" I always love the emphasis on "even," as if that's the most egregious crime of all, violating the sanctity of flirtin. So droll
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Frank Albertson is great in his "only scene" in the real estate office as Tom Cassidy -- oil millionaire, good father..drunk...lech.
But I think people forget how great he is in his SECOND scene...as an imagined voice only. Reacting to the theft "EVEN flirting with me" is hilarious. It was the other way around, we know it.
He also has such phrases as "Hot Creepers!"(decades later, screenwriter Joe Stefano admitted he had no memory where that phrase came from.) Or "I dumped it out in front of her" (the money -- sounds like fecal matter.)
And the "dirtiest line" in a Hays Code movie(maybe): "I'll track her, never you doubt it...and if any of the money's missin', I replace it with her fine, soft flesh..."
ICK.
That's MARION'S imagined verdict upon herself. As critic Robin Wood wrote, "Marion's imagined punishment for her crime, hideously disproportionate to her crime...will find its hideous enactment." (In the shower.)