Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

The Better Bargain (1956)

Henry Silva: Harry Silver

Quotes 

• Harry Silver : Once, centuries ago, there was a French hoodlum called Francois Villon. He was just like me, a no-good crook and a killer, but whenever he was in love, he'd turn into a poet. He wrote some great things. Just listen to this, King. " When death, that cheater of cheats comes knocking, and his voice grows near, where are the snows of yesteryear?" Do you like that, King?

  Louis Koster : Yeah.

  [last lines] 

  Harry Silver : Good. Now I think I'll kill you.

• Harry Silver : Sorry to disturb you King, but I came back to say that I've changed my mind.

  Louis Koster : About what?

  Harry Silver : I'm not gonna do it.

  Louis Koster : What do you mean?

  Harry Silver : I'm not going to kill that guy.

  Louis Koster : Why not?

  Harry Silver : I'm just not in the mood to kill myself.

• Harry Silver : I'd hate to take something as warm as that and turn her into something cold and dead.

• Louis Koster : [laughing]  So you like poetry too, huh?

  Harry Silver : You wouldn't understand King. The only two things that a man should die for or live for are a poem or a woman like Marian.