So horribly sad. How is it I feel like laughing?
Bureaucrat
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast
- Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Philip Ober, Martin Landau
- Year
- 1959
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Genres
- crime film, thriller film, mystery film
- Country
- United States
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You gentlemen aren’t really trying to kill my son, are you?
Clara Thornhill
That’s funny, that plane’s dustin’ crops where there ain’t no crops.
Man at Prairie Crossing
That wasn’t very sporting, using real bullets.
Phillip Vandamm
I may go back to hating you. It was more fun.
Roger Thornhill
In the world of advertising, there’s no such thing as a lie. There’s only expedient exaggeration.
Roger Thornhill
No. No, Mother, I have not been drinking. No. No. These two men, they poured a whole bottle of bourbon into me. No, they didn’t give me a chaser.
Roger Thornhill
Now you listen to me, I’m an advertising man, not a red herring. I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself “slightly” killed.
Roger Thornhill