Hotel (1967)

Rod Taylor: Peter McDermott

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• Peter McDermott : A sure way to empty a hotel fast: drop an elevator.

• Jeanne Rochefort : Did I hear music from the Delta Queen?

  Peter McDermott : Yes, Madame, Le Jazz Hot.

• Peter McDermott : How do you feel?

  Warren Trent : LIke a man trying to hold up his britches with one hand and climb a tree with the other.

• Peter McDermott : We'd like to make a deal, sir.

  Joe Laswell : I make deals. Others accept them.

• Jeanne Rochefort : I once had a place in Paris almost like this. It was the first place of my own I'd ever had. It was warm and pretty and bright. I was in love. It was a long time ago.

  Peter McDermott : It couldn't have been that long ago.

  Jeanne Rochefort : Oh yes, it was. I was 17 and I'm 22 now.

• Peter McDermott : In New Orleans there's a racket called a B girl routine. A B girl takes a key from a man and promises to come to his room later and then she gives the key to a professional hotel thief. I was just wondering if you happened to be in the Quarter last night, maybe you dropped your...

  Kilbrick : Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. I got a plane to catch. I can't get mixed up in any police investigation. I don't know anything about any B girls! I got a wife. Let's just forget it.

• Christine : Something for you Pete?

  Peter McDermott : Well, how's about a little something for a troubled spirit?

  Christine : Your's?

  [singing] 

  Christine : Alone together, Beyond the crowd, Above the world, And not too proud...

• Peter McDermott : Bailey just told me about the negro couple you turned away. Now, I want to... find them and give them a room.

  Warren Trent : What?

  Peter McDermott : We've been over this a dozen times. You knew it was going to happen sooner or later. You promised me you'd roll with this.

  Warren Trent : Well, I'm not gonna roll with it until they make me. Why, I'd lose all my own standbys if I started lettin' colored people in the Hotel.

  Peter McDermott : We've got statistics on all of these segged hotels. Their clientele hasn't changed one half of one percent!

  Warren Trent : Now, look, Pete...

  Peter McDermott : Now, Warren! If this is a civil rights action it'll be all over the newspapers tomorrow. Laswell's union has a large membership of negroes. He can't put money into a business were they turn negroes away! He's gonna blow the whistle on our deal.

  Warren Trent : Well, why weren't you here to handle it for me? You know I don't understand things like unions, civil rights, indoor ballgames, I don't understand the whole damn world anymore. That's what I don't understand.

• Peter McDermott : I do not want any trouble for the hotel.

  Tousaint : Does that mean that the bars against negroes are down here?

  Peter McDermott : It does.

  Tousaint : How about Mr. Trent?

  Peter McDermott : He's been, what you might call, Overcome.