East Side, West Side (1949)

Van Heflin: Mark Dwyer

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• Mark Dwyer : If you lie down with dogs, Brandon, you get up with fleas.

• Mark Dwyer : Don't worry Jess. I'm not nineteen. I've heard a rumor that people don't always get what they want, and that happiness isn't the natural state of man.

• Mark Dwyer : Think I'm a stuffed shirt?

  Rosa Senta : Yeah. But I like what the shirt's stuffed with.

• Mark Dwyer : All changed and all exactly the same. Just like you, Rosie. All grown up and beautiful and still that same dirty-faced kid.

  Rosa Senta : Oh, Mark!

  Mark Dwyer : [to Jessie Bourne]  This one, she had the dirtiest face on the whole block!

• Mark Dwyer : It's been a long time since I've seen a woman's hand that wasn't blistered and rough. Your's is nice. It's - soft.

• Rosa Senta : Who were those men at the airport?

  Mark Dwyer : Oh, I'm being made love to by various magazines and newspapers.

  Jessie Bourne : Because of your book, "The Syndicate Man"?

  Mark Dwyer : Yeah.

  Jessie Bourne : One of my best friends is among those making love to you. Owen Lee.

• Mark Dwyer : You think I could bring little Dirty Face, here?

• Jessie Bourne : You ask a great many questions!

  Mark Dwyer : Why, don't get mad. There's a great many things I don't know.

• Mark Dwyer : A man can only see out of his own eyes, Owen. I'll write what I see.

• Mark Dwyer : Do you always look this good?

  Jessie Bourne : No, I tried especially hard tonight.

  Mark Dwyer : For me, I suppose?

  Jessie Bourne : Well, of course!

• Mark Dwyer : Please, don't tell me that we're strangers. Not again. Because, you know that isn't true.

  Jessie Bourne : No, it isn't true. I'm - comfortable with you.

  Mark Dwyer : Yeah, well, it happens that way.

• Rosa Senta : Are you all mine, till dinner, thorough dinner, and after dinner?

  Mark Dwyer : Ah, just a drink.

  Rosa Senta : You'd be surprised how long I can nurse one drink, mister.

• Mark Dwyer : Who's that?

  Rosa Senta : That's Alec Dawning - the guy who socked Brandon at Del Rio the other night.

  Mark Dwyer : For any particular reason?

  Rosa Senta : Something about that Lorrison dame. He goes around with her too.

  Mark Dwyer : Is it the Amazon with him?

  Rosa Senta : No. I don't know who that is.

• Mark Dwyer : I lived four blocks from her. When I was a kid I used to play games in these streets.

  Jessie Bourne : Olly olly oxen free.

  Mark Dwyer : How did you know that?

• Mark Dwyer : If people get together, geography can't separate 'em. Not anymore. We just didn't have a chance to get together. We've sort of been passing each other enroute to different places.

• John : See what I mean? A real big girl.

  Mark Dwyer : And real rough.

• Mark Dwyer : I shall now reveal the dark and hidden secrets of your life.

  Bill the Bartender : I like my mother-in-law. That's the dark and hidden secret in my life.

• Mark Dwyer : Look, never walk out on anyone alone. Walk out with me. And do me a favor too, you see, my girl's giving a party for another guy and I'd like to show up there with someone - you!

  Felice Backett : Why me?

  Mark Dwyer : Well, because you fill the eye, honey! I've had both of my eyes filled with you ever since you walked out of that powder room.

• Brandon Bourne : I don't have to tell you how grateful I am for all you've done.

  Mark Dwyer : Don't be. I'm no friend of yours.