Winter Kills (1979)

Anthony Perkins: John Cerruti

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• John Cerruti : I'm so glad you're here! I receive so few outsiders. Who to trust? Who to trust? All of the nerves, but none of the flesh.

• John Cerruti : Your father spent eleven million dollars to raise your brother up from a skirt-chasing college-boy to President of the United States. For twenty years he told him what to do and how and why he was gonna do it and what would happen when it was done. Your father put Tim in the White House - why? Because that's where you can generate the most cash; a cold-ass business proposition, like everything else in this society. But your brother decided to stir up the population. Began to think we were all living in a democracy, he started believing it. Lunch with the De Gaulles, dinner with Khrushchev, the whole razzle-dazzle went to his head. Yet in spite of the fact that everybody out there in this country lives in the same dog-eat-dog way, grabbing any angle to make a buck, if you were to inform them that your father had Tim killed, they'd wanna tear the old man apart, limb from limb.

• John Cerruti : From our satellite, we can watch everything. Nasty little wars in Africa. Troop movements. Ship movements. Nuclear tests. The Sinai. The Panama Canal. Every little thing to check an investment, buy us in or out.

• John Cerruti : This is the contract silo, Nick. Contracts, contracts, contracts. Agreements kept. Agreements broken. Papers, papers, papers. Signatures. Your father's holograph signature. On his interlocking companies going back, oh, 30 years. Also those of diplomats, authors and inventors. Tax deals. Foundation deals. Signatures of presidents and sheiks. Signatures to put men away for, oh, decades. Destroy careers, public lives, marriages, estates. Love affairs. Letters of passion, indiscretion and conspiracy. Acquired by your father's intelligence network. Letters to persuade a man to close a deal or leave a job or sell out on his brother. Data necessary to sustain a financial empire.

• John Cerruti : Your Oklahoma adventure was a little something I cooked up.

• John Cerruti : Information. Black holes of information. Galaxies within galaxies. Multiple expanding universes of information.

• John Cerruti : She's been kidnapped.

  Nick Kegan : Kidnapped?

  John Cerruti : Yeah. Abducted, swept away, taken off, snatched. Kidnapped.

  Nick Kegan : By whom?

  John Cerruti : The kidnappers.

• John Cerruti : You're not to be believed. What have you got? A half a dozen different scenarios all going in opposite directions. Fantasies. They'd lock you away in the booby bin.

• John Cerruti : Thrice married by 23, movie queen at 30, Lola entered middle age as friend of the shady and legit alike - with the special power of a President's procuress. Lola got Tim his girls, and he blessed her with fame and fortune. Tim enjoyed her favors and the favors of her friends.