Mafia (1968)

Nehemiah Persoff: Pizzuco

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• Pizzuco : They're like flies on a corpse.

  La Stella : They won't find a thing.

• Don Mariano Arena : As for Martino, I'll give him a waste disposal contract.

  Pizzuco : Refuse has good returns.

• Pizzuco : If Zecchinetta sings, I'll be the first that goes down.

• Don Mariano Arena : Now try to do what I tell you. Today you'll go and see Rosa Nicolosi.

  Pizzuco : But why? What dose Rosa have to do with us?

  Don Mariano Arena : I said that you must go to her house!

  Pizzuco : And do what?

  Don Mariano Arena : That's up to you, go to bed with her for all I care, but just stay there for a little while. Nothing else. Understood?

• Pizzuco : Heh, heh, what a beautiful, naked, young girl! Why are you hiding?

• Pizzuco : You have a beautiful daughter! She'll be as pretty as you when she's older. I remember you were just like that. I watched you grow up.

  Rosa Nicolosi : So, what did you want to tell me?

  Pizzuco : I'll have a glass of wine, if that's okay. I came to tell you that you're beautiful. Doesn't that please you?

• Pizzuco : Under arrest? If they've killed someone between 3 and 4 o'clock, I can tell you that I was at the house of a woman whose name I won't mention - unless it's absolutely necessary.

• Pizzuco : You've ruined my life Rosa. All those times that you passed in front of my house or when I'd meet you and you'd look at me with those eyes. Y'know Rosa?

  Rosa Nicolosi : Don't be a fool. I've never once thought about you.

  Pizzuco : That's what you say.

  Rosa Nicolosi : Now that you've had your drink you can go. Your hand.

  Pizzuco : What a light dress you've got on

  Rosa Nicolosi : Your hand! What do you think? You think you can do that if I don't want it? Ah, take a walk! You'll just have to do with your whore of a wife! Don't touch me with those hands! They make me sick! Think you can molest a woman? Get out!

• Pizzuco : Ehh! These Sicilian women! Always so dramatic! I want to move to Milan. A breath of fresh air!

• Pizzuco : Bravo, congratulations, It takes all these over-paid member of the State at arrest a decent man like me! Poor Italian taxpayers!

• Pizzuco : She's a hot-blooded woman! You don't know her. She's money-hungry, wants everything! But, she has skin like velvet. If I had the choice of how I wanted to die, I'd choose to die on top of her!

• Police Sergeant : After being cuckolded don't you think he'd have wanted to kill the wife before the lover?

  Pizzuco : Perhaps he would. If he's a man of honor he would.

• Pizzuco : I swear to you, neither I nor Zecchinetta mentioned your name. We were fighting between ourselves like two cocks.

• Pizzuco : You can speak when the hen pisses!