This is Steve McQueen's first return to a movie role since his "retirement" after "The Towering Inferno," in which he was one of the biggest box office draws, thereafter rejecting offer after offer (including "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and William Friedkin's "Sorcerer") until this very small, yet important, part came along.
Dr. Thomas Stockmann:
You want me to keep quiet.
Peter Stockmann:
That's not what I said.
Dr. Thomas Stockmann:
You don't want me to say anything to the public. We may be talking about typhoid.
Peter Stockmann:
I said before, they're not that convinced there is any actual danger.
Dr. Thomas Stockmann:
My report is based on fact. You and the ...
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