The Story on Page One (1959)

Anthony Franciosa: Victor Santini

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• Victor Santini : He's been with the judge twenty minutes. What could he be saying to him?

• Victor Santini : You're in the wrong neighborhood, Mrs. Brown. You need a big shot lawyer and you need him quick.

  Mrs. Hattie Brown : And what do we do for money? Print it?

  Victor Santini : Nothing you can hock? Well, how much cash do you have on hand?

  Mrs. Hattie Brown : About eleven hundred dollars.

  Victor Santini : That might pay the stenography bill.

• Victor Santini : There's a steak on the grill for me, Liz. Bring it over to the table when its ready.

  Liz : All right, Vic.

  [Liz walks away and Vic slaps her behind] 

  Liz : Oh!

• Mrs. Hattie Brown : The law says she's innocent - innocent until proven guilty!

  Victor Santini : Excuse me, that's the fine theory of it. But, the law is what I told you, Mrs. Brown. not what you see in TV shows.

• Victor Santini : Frankly, I'm prejudice against married women who go out and traffic - play around.

  Jo Morris : You don't sound very friendly.

  Victor Santini : We'll chum up another day.

• Victor Santini : How many times did you sleep with Ellis? Now, don't be shy. The questions I ask you in court will curl your hair.

  Jo Morris : Once. Just once.

  Victor Santini : That's the pathetic truth?

  Jo Morris : That's the truth.

• Victor Santini : Is it legal to rent hotel rooms for the purposes of illicit sex? Yes or no?

• Victor Santini : What does that mean, "It sounded like she didn't mean it"?

  Lauber : Well, you know, like a typical wife. Maybe they had a fight. Flippant. Sarcastic. She didn't mean it.