The Angry Silence (1960)

Richard Attenborough: Tom Curtis

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• Tom Curtis : Shut up! Shut up will you! You don't have to worry about not talking to me. I don't want you to talk to me, do you hear? But you stay away from my family. Just stay away from us!

• Tom Curtis : Well, now. What can I do for you?

  Bert Connolly : Well, it seems like you've already done it. Old Billy tells me you've decided to back us all up at last.

  Tom Curtis : Well, we've decided to stay away from work, yeah, that's right.

  Bert Connolly : Well, it seems a pity that you didn't do that from the beginning, like our brother Joe here.

  Tom Curtis : Yeah, pity all around, isn't it?

  Bert Connolly : Now look, Tom. You know as well as I do that you got to go along with the majority. That's the democratic way. And personally speaking, I was bloody hurt to see you step out of line with them others. Still, that's all over now. We won't bring that up again. What we've got to do now is to show a united front. You made a mistake, but you've been big enough to admit it. I mean I would be the last person in the world to hold that against you. I wouldn't come around here and threaten you or anything like that.

  Tom Curtis : Yeah, well, I'm glad about that.

  Bert Connolly : But I don't mind tellin' you. I've had a bit of trouble with some of the boys down there. They don't like scabbing. Some of them are talking about getting quite rough.

  Tom Curtis : Well, it went a little bit further than talking, didn't it?

  Bert Connolly : How do you mean?

  Tom Curtis : Have they set fire to any good cars lately?

  Bert Connolly : Oh, I don't know anything about that.

  Tom Curtis : No, maybe not. But I just want to make one point. I've got a couple of kids in there fast asleep. They were in there a night ago when the old woman Jackson downstairs got a brick thrown through her window. Now that wasn't meant for her. That was meant for me. They could have come in there.

  Bert Connolly : I tell you I don't know anything about that.

  Tom Curtis : Well, then, I'll put it another way, Bert. You didn't get a brick through your window, did you?

  Bert Connolly : What does that prove?

  Tom Curtis : I'm just telling you. Anyone that interferes with my wife and kids, and I'll start chuckin' a few bricks around.