Over-Exposed (1956)

Richard Crenna: Russell Bassett

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• Russell Bassett : [as Basset and West commiserate in the bar, after Basset calls to Steve, the bartender]  Another round?

  Max West : No, no thanks. I uh, I haven't been drinking as much since I first met Lila.

  Russell Bassett : That's odd. I've been drinking more.

  Max West : Well, on second thought, I...

  Russell Bassett : [as Steve arrives in front of them]  Two more, Steve.

  Steve the Bartender : [as he takes away their empty glasses]  Comin' up.

• Lila Crane : I couldn't get anyone up there to look at my pictures even upside down. And they're good.

  Russell Bassett : Yeah. They're very good.

  Lila Crane : So.

  Russell Bassett : So what you need is a hot news shot. Love crazed killer runs amok. Man attempts suicide leap from the empire State.

  Lila Crane : Or me diving in the nude from Brooklyn Bridge.

  Russell Bassett : Well that really would be a hot news shot. Let me know where you live. Something might turn up.

  Lila Crane : I'm sure. You would. Don't call me, I'll call you.

• Russell Bassett : Come on.

  Lila Crane : Where are you going?

  Russell Bassett : You want to use a darkroom don't you?

• Lila Crane : I guess I better hunt up another place.

  Russell Bassett : Well, there's my hotel.

• Russell Bassett : If you be a good girl I'll buy you breakfast in the morning.

  Lila Crane : I'll be good.

• Russell Bassett : What do you think of her, Max?

  Max West : Well, I'm very fond of Lila. When we're older we don't look for perfection in our friends. She wanted a career, she got it.

• Russell Bassett : I won't have my wife working in a nightclub.

• Russell Bassett : Can you cook?

  Lila Crane : Maybe with a can opener.

• Russell Bassett : [to Lila]  If I thought a beating would bring you to your senses, I'd have done it myself.