Saint Jack (1979)
Peter Bogdanovich: Eddie Schuman
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Quotes
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Eddie Schuman : Ever since Kennedy and Castro, you can't get a good cigar in America.
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Jack Flowers : Cloak and dagger, Eddie. Why couldn't you talk to me on the phone?
Eddie Schuman : There's a guy going to Saigon next week. To check out the withdrawal. A politician. Family man, couple of kids. Democrat.
Jack Flowers : Yeah? So?
Eddie Schuman : Well... Some people think he's too opinionated. They'd like something to put him in his place.
Jack Flowers : Like what?
Eddie Schuman : Pictures, tapes... whatever.
Jack Flowers : For a minute there I thought you were going to ask me to kill him.
Eddie Schuman : You're not that desperate, are you?
Jack Flowers : Some people when they're desperate they think about suicide. Me, I'm different. I think about murder... This stinks Eddie. You know that.
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Eddie Schuman : Beautiful. Where's she from?
Jack Flowers : Ceylon.
Eddie Schuman : Ceylon. Yeah. They call it Sri Lanka now.
Jack Flowers : Yeah, I know.
Eddie Schuman : They screwed up all the names. Zanzibar. The Congo. Siam. Persia. All gone.