The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
Campbell Scott: Joe Ross
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Quotes
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Jimmy Dell : I think you'll find that if what you've done for them is as valuable as you say it is, if they are indebted to you morally but not legally, my experience is they will give you nothing, and they will begin to act cruelly toward you.
Joe Ross : Why?
Jimmy Dell : To suppress their guilt.
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Joe Ross : Funny old world.
Susan Ricci : Funny old world? Dog my cats!
Joe Ross : Dog my cats indeed.
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Jimmy Dell : Do the American thing.
Joe Ross : What's that?
Jimmy Dell : Marry a rich widow.
Joe Ross : We used to say, a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store.
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Joe Ross : Stun gun? What if you missed?
United States Marshal : Well then, it would be back to the range for me...
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[last lines]
Susan Ricci : [being arrested] Can you help me? You're the Boy Scout. Can I be your good deed for today? Can't you help me, Joe?
Joe Ross : I'm afraid you're gonna have to spend some time in your room.
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Joe Ross : You could call me Joe.
Susan Ricci : Yeah, long as I didn't take that as inducement to, you know, further intimacy.
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[first lines]
Airport Security : What is the purpose of your trip, please?
Joe Ross : Business.
Airport Security : Thank you and welcome to St. Estéphe.
