The Front Page (1974)
Harold Gould: The Mayor
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Quotes
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'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County : [holding up his phone] He's waiting for instructions. What are we gonna do?
The Mayor : Tell him to shoot to kill.
'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County : What?
The Mayor : Shoot to kill, I said.
'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County : I - I don't know, Herbie. What about that reprieve? I-if it ever comes out ...
The Mayor : Nobody reprieved that policeman he shot. There was no clemency, either. Do what I tell you!
'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County : [on phone] Jacobi, you there? Listen. Shoot to kill! You heard me!
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The Mayor : Pete, get the Governor on the phone.
Plunkett : Oh, you can't.
'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County : What do you mean, we can't?
Plunkett : He's gone fishing. Just him, and an Indian guide, and a canoe. No phone, no nothin'.
The Mayor : He sure picked a hell of a time to go fishing.
'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County : [phone rings] Excuse me.
[exits]
Plunkett : Uh, just between us, it's not really fishing, because that Indian guide is really a girl. She' isn't even Indian. She's from New Jersey.