The Cheap Detective (1978)

Stockard Channing: Bess

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• Bess : You have a visitor in there, a Miss Sophie De Vega.

  Lou Peckinpaugh : Pretty?

  Bess : Prettier than me, but I'm easier.

  Lou Peckinpaugh : I'm saving you for the rainy season.

• Lou Peckinpaugh : Don't be stubborn, you crazy Frenchman. Time is on their side!

  Bess : I don't think he's being stubborn - I think he's being dead!

  Lou Peckinpaugh : Just once I'd like to see somebody die *regular* on this case!

• Bess : Hold onto your hat. Vladimir Tserijemiwtz is Ezra C.V. Mildew Dezire Jr.!

  Lou Peckinpaugh : Wait a minute. Tserijemiwtz has two T's. The name you come up with don't have none.

  Bess : That was the whole key. Some people spell the Czar of Russia T-S-A-R. But in America we spell it C-Z-A-R.

  Lou Peckinpaugh : Any fool knows that.

  Bess : So when I tried the American spelling, I came up with Ezra...

  Bess , Lou Peckinpaugh : ...C.V. Mildew Dezire Jr.!

  Lou Peckinpaugh : Of course! - Who the hell is he?

  Bess : The owner of the Golden Gate Bridge.

  Lou Peckinpaugh : Right. You did fine, angel. Now forget you ever heard that name. Don't ever repeat it to anyone.

  [the phone rings] 

  Bess : [into phone]  Hello? - Yes, he is. Who's calling, please?

  [to Lou] 

  Bess : It's him! Ezra C.V. Mildew Dezire Jr.!

  Lou Peckinpaugh : I told you not to repeat it!