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Chase 2022-02-07 14:46:25
Trial translation of some lines
The film's lines are extremely brilliant, and can be regarded as the biggest highlight of the film alongside Huang Zongzhan's cinematography, Curtis and Lancaster's acting skills, and Elmer Berstein's soundtrack. Among them, Sidney and JJ's group scenes with congressmen, actresses, and agents are...
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Carey 2022-02-07 14:46:25
What the director has no luck to endure - the taste of success
The film begins with Sidney (Tony Curtis) buying a newspaper from a street newsstand, walking into a bar, and can't wait to flip through a page. After a quick look, he was quite disappointed to put away the newspaper and walked out of the bar, throwing the newspaper into the roadside wastebasket....

Barbara Nichols
Extended Reading
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Lt. Harry Kello: Come back, Sidney... I wanna chastise you...
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J.J. Hunsecker: What's this boy got that Susie likes?
Sidney Falco: Integrity - acute, like indigestion.
J.J. Hunsecker: What does that mean - integrity?
Sidney Falco: A pocket fulla firecrackers - looking for a match!
[grinning]
Sidney Falco: It's a new wrinkle, to tell the truth... I never thought I'd make a killing on some guy's "integrity."