Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

Phil Silvers: Phil Newman

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• Phil Newman : Follow me, the Pied Piper of the men's room.

• Phil Newman : You hear that? Sex criminals we're raising.

• Shirley Newman : [taking the microphone onto the dance floor]  Uh, attenzione! Uh, attenzione! Uh, uh, ladies and gentlemen, may I have our attention, please?

  Youngest Newman boy : Is mommy gonna sing?

  Phil Newman : Who knows?

• Phil Newman : Boy, you've got a mouth the whole North of Italy could fall in.

• Phil Newman : How would you like every time you walked down the street to be reminded of your dead husband?

  Shirley Newman : How would I know? You never gave me a chance to find out, God forbid.

• Phil Newman : You know me by now. I don't ask for much. When I wake up in the morning and just find my glasses, that's enough happiness for one day.

• Phil Newman : Look, Carla, don't upset the apple cart. Honey, there's nothing in the world I wouldn't do for you. But, how - how - how would this look back home? I'm a Scout Master.

• Phil Newman : Honey, listen, one of us has to be strong.

  Carla Campbell : I'm just a woman.

  Phil Newman : Now, I'll be strong enough for the both of us.

• Phil Newman : Carla, give me up. I'm no good for you. Oh, Carla look, I've got to go now.

  Carla Campbell : Maybe it's better.

  Phil Newman : Promise me one thing.

  Carla Campbell : Yes.

  Phil Newman : Promise you'll try to forget me. I mean, on a physical level.

  Carla Campbell : You think that's easy?

  Phil Newman : Oh, you'll make it. Crazy kid. Coraggio. Coraggio.

• Shirley Newman : When I think of the thing that the three of you have done...

  Phil Newman : Stop it, honey. You're making... The three of us?

  Shirley Newman : Don't worry. I saw the other two names at the express office. The same thing, month after month, year after year, a check for Mrs. Campbell. How you all must have loved that boy. You know, and I didn't even know that you knew Braddock and Young.

• Shirley Newman : What's the matter with you, ya look sick?

  Phil Newman : No, no, it's just that when someone finds out something they weren't supposed to know about, it's a...

• Walter Braddock : I can't believe it. I just can't believe it.

  Phil Newman : You can't believe it. You can't believe how I can't believe it.

• Walter Braddock : I was just with her this morning, and she said...

  Phil Newman : Oh, now wait a minute. You were with her this morning? But I was there this morning.

  Walter Braddock : You? I had to leave on account of some insurance man.

  Phil Newman : I couldn't get in on account of an insurance man.

  Walter Braddock : I wonder who the insurance man was.

  Phil Newman : [Justin Young raises his hand]  You too?

  Justin Young : That's our collar. Two doors and no waiting.

• Phil Newman : It doesn't seem possible. All the beautiful letters she's written.

  Justin Young : Correction. Not written - mimeographed.

  Phil Newman : And I had her on some kind of pedestal like she was some kinda Snow White.

  Walter Braddock : Hmm! Only with Snow White, the other dwarves, they knew about each other right?

  [slaps forehead] 

  Walter Braddock : Geez, you know what we are?

• Walter Braddock : Chumps! Idiots, you understand? Dumb dumbs. To think that I personally paid how much?... forty-one thousand dollars.

  Phil Newman : What are you beefin' about? I gave forty-seven thousand dollars, six thousand more than you.

  Walter Braddock : Whadda ya want, change?

• Walter Braddock : [as the three men head inn a taxi for the hospital in San Anselmo]  If anything happens to my kid.

  Phil Newman : His kid. What happened to my stock in this corporation?

  Justin Young : What makes you think there's anything wrong with the kid?

  Walter Braddock : Huh?

  Justin Young : Look, they lied to us for twenty years. Why should they start telling the truth now?

• Walter Braddock : You think the kid's in on it too?

  Phil Newman : Sure, she's got your eyes - shifty.

• Walter Braddock : Cheeez. That's the lowest - using my kid...

  Phil Newman : Again, his kid. All right. You want the kid? Tell you what you do. Give me forty-seven thousand dollars - she's yours.

• Shirley Newman : And as far as you're concerned, Mr. Hell's Angels, just don't ever touch me again. Your laundry'll be done and your dinner'll be ready, but as for your connubial pleasures, you can just...

  Phil Newman : That's all you can think about, when this kid's about to run off with a married man?

• Walter Braddock : Whatever you think, all these years I've been your father. From the day you were born, you've always been my kid, and to me, you're still my kid. And I'm tellin' ya, you're not runnin' off with no married man.

  Justin Young : You're going back to school, young lady.

  Phil Newman : And you're gonna get straight As.

• Phil Newman : She's gotta be my kid. She drives like every woman in my family.

• Shirley Newman : All my life I wanted a daughter. With me, three, three sons. With her you have a girl.

  Phil Newman : I couldn't help it. I didn't do anything different.

• Phil Newman : Now look, baby, you can't do this. It's a crazy, romantic, ridiculous dream. Oh, Phil, Phil.

• Phil Newman : What's the matter?

  Shirley Newman : Nothing. I wondered how you were, darling, how you're feeling, and why you've been sending some Italian broad a check every month for the last 20 years!

• Shirley Newman : Daddy?

  Phil Newman : What?

  Shirley Newman : You're not just Daddy - you're *Big* Daddy.

• Phil Newman : Eddie was no longer around and, gosh, how I missed him. The little things he used to do. The way he'd climb into the cockpit, put his chewing gum on his helmet, pull down his goggles and say, "Okay, guys, let's get one for the gipper."

  Shirley Newman : Wasn't that from a Pat O'Brien movie?

  Phil Newman : Details. My heart is breaking. She's hitting me with details.

• Phil Newman : Call me a sentimental fool, if you want, but we had a thing in those days: we never talked about a dead buddy. Didn't you see "Hell's Angels"?

  Shirley Newman : That was a different war.