William Holden Quotes

When Time Ran Out...

Reflecting on Past Relationships

Rene Valdez Those two, remind me of Rose and myself... a long time ago.

Shelby Gilmore I know what you mean.

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The Wild Bunch

Loyalty and Unity in Difficult Times

Pike Bishop We're not gonna get rid of anybody. We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be. When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal - you're finished! We're finished! All of us!

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The Country Girl

Wife's Harsh Words Reflect Complex Love Dynamics

Bernie Dodd They can get awful bent out of shape, can't they? You know, my wife was so twisted, she once said to me, "I hope your next play's a flop, so the world can see how much I love you even though you're a failure.

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Network

Human Connection Amidst Emotional Turmoil

Diana Christensen Will you go back to your wife?

Max Schumacher I'll give it a try, but I don't think she'll jump at it. But don't worry about me. I'll manage. I always have, I always will. I'm more concerned about you. You're not the boozer type. So I figure a year, maybe two, before you crack up. Or jump out of your 14th floor office window.

Diana Christensen Stop selling, Max. I don't need you. I don't want your pain. I don't want your menopausal decay and death! I don't need you, Max. Now get out of here!

Max Schumacher You need me. You need me badly. Because I'm your last contact with human reality. I love you. And that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day.

Diana Christensen Then don't leave me.

Max Schumacher It's too late, Diana. There's nothing left in you that I can live with. You're one of Howard's humanoids. If I stay with you, I'll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything you and the institution of television touch is destroyed. You're television incarnate, Diana. Indifferent to suffering, insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. You're madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you. But not me. Not as long as I can feel pleasure and pain and love. And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell. Final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.

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Damien - Omen II

Confronting the Dark Truth of Danger

Ann Thorn You can't make me believe it.

Richard Thorn You've got to believe it. He killed Mark. He killed Atherton and Pasarian.

Ann What are you talking about?

Richard And he'll keep on killing. He'll kill anyone he thinks is threatening him!

Ann How? How did he kill them? Did he make the ice crack?

Richard Not himself.

Ann Did he pull the gas pipe apart? Did he?

Richard There are others. Surrounding him, helping him, keeping him safe.

Ann Richard, listen to yourself! Listen to how crazy you sound! Others! Devils! A conspiracy of devils? Richard, please!

Richard Ann, I saw Charles killed! I saw Damien's face on the Wall!

Ann What are you going to do? Richard? What are you doing?

Richard The daggers have to be here somewhere.

Ann What do you want them for? No. No!

Richard He's not human!

Ann He's your brother's son. He's a boy you've loved for seven years!

Richard The boy has got to die!

Ann Richard! For me, Richard, don't.

Richard Ann, what are you doing? Get away from that drawer!

Ann What you want to do is crazy. I can't let you!

Richard Ann!

Ann You're obsessed with Damien. It's making you sick.

Richard Give me the daggers.

Ann There are your daggers!

Richard Ann?

Ann I've always belonged to him.

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The Country Girl

Exploring Relationships and Personal Dynamics in Performance

Bernie Dodd Does your wife really want you to play this part?

Frank Elgin Yeah, she's all for it.

Bernie Dodd I was just wondering. The day I met her, she seemed a little difficult about terms and rather domineering, I thought.

Frank Elgin She wasn't always like that.

Bernie Dodd Oh I know, I know. They all start out as ]s and wind up as ]s.

[[w:Juliet|Juliet; [w:Lady Macbeth|Lady Macbeth]

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The Country Girl

Balcony Manners and Stage Anxiety

Georgie Elgin How's Frank?

Bernie Dodd Okay. How's it been back here?

Georgie Elgin He was a little uneasy with the curtain going up so late.

Bernie Dodd If only the first few rows had the balcony's manners, what a wonderful world this would be.

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The Wild Bunch

Regret and Consequences of Carelessness

Pike Bishop She had a husband. If I'd had any sense, I'd have killed him. He wasn't around. I got careless. One night, he walked in on us. Got her with the first shot. Got me here with the second. Then the damned coward turned and ran. There isn't a day or an hour that passes that I don't think about it.

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The Wild Bunch

Decisive Action in a Dangerous Situation

Pike Bishop If they move, kill em!

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Network

Confronting Betrayal and Unrealistic Expectations

Louise Then get out. Go anywhere you want. Go to a hotel, go live with her, but don't come back! Because, after 25 years of building a home and raising a family and all the senseless pain that we have inflicted on each other, I'm damned if I'm gonna stand here and have you tell me you're in love with somebody else! Because this isn't a convention weekend with your secretary, is it? Or -- or some broad that you picked up after three belts of booze. This is your great winter romance, isn't it? Your last roar of passion before you settle into your emeritus years. Is that what's left for me? Is that my share? She gets the winter passion, and I get the dotage? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to sit at home knitting and purling while you slink back like some penitent drunk? I'm your wife, damn it! And if you can't work up a winter passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance! I hurt! Don't you understand that? I hurt badly! Does she love you, Max?

[sobbing]

Max Schumacher I'm not sure she's capable of any real feelings. She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her from over the TV set. She has very carefully devised a number of scenarios for all of us to play, like a Movie of the Week. And, my God, look at us, Louise. Here we are going through the obligatory middle-of-act-two scorned wife throws peccant husband out scene. But don't worry, I'll come back to you in the end. All of her plot outlines have me leaving her and coming back to you because the audience won't buy a rejection of the happy American family.

[about Diana]

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Sunset Boulevard

A Compliment on Fragrance and Freshness

Joe Gillis May I say that you smell really special?

Betty Schaefer It must be my new shampoo.

Joe Gillis That's no shampoo. It's more like freshly-laundered linen handkerchiefs, like a brand new automobile.

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The Wild Bunch

Unity in the Face of Fate

Pike Bishop We started together. We'll end it together.

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The Country Girl

Facing Challenges with Determination

Bernie Dodd We've got a lot of hard work ahead of us and I haven't time to outmaneuver frustrated females.

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The Wild Bunch

Betrayal and Consequences in Warfare

Pike Bishop I figure that damn General will try to take this load without payin for it and shoot us in the bargain. Only thing that'll change his mind is if somethin would happen to these guns.

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The Wild Bunch

Determined to Learn and Understand

Pike Bishop What I don't know about I sure as hell am gonna learn.

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The Country Girl

Home Troubles and Denial

Bernie Dodd Frank? Having trouble at home?

Frank Elgin No, nothing like that. What's the matter? Don't you believe me?

Bernie Dodd Everyone has trouble at home. The only ones who deny it are those that have too much of it.

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The Country Girl

Confronting Hidden Emotions and Distance

Georgie Elgin How could you be so angry at someone you didn't even know?

Bernie Dodd Maybe I really wasn't. Maybe I screamed at you to keep myself at an angry distance.

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The Country Girl

Understanding Between Men and Women

Georgie Elgin For your edification, he's heading for a bender.

Bernie Dodd Why is it that women always think they understand men better than men do?

Georgie Elgin Maybe because they live with them.

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Network

Running Out of Bullshit

Howard Beale Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th, and this is my last broadcast. Yesterday I announced on this program that I was going to commit public suicide, admittedly an act of madness. Well, I'll tell you what happened: I just ran out of bullshit. I just ran out of bullshit.

[on the air]

Harry Hunter Mr. Schumacher's right here, do you want to talk to him?

[picks up ringing phone in editing room]

Howard Beale Am I still on the air? I really don't know any other way to say it other than I just ran out of bullshit. Bullshit is all the reasons we give for living. And if we can't think up any reasons of our own, we always have the God bullshit.

Max Schumacher Yeah, Tom, what is it?

[on the phone]

Howard Beale We don't know why we go through all this pointless pain, humiliation, and decay. So there better be someone somewhere who does know. That's the God bullshit.

Max Schumacher He's saying that life is bullshit, and it is, so what are you screaming about?

Howard Beale And then there's the noble man bullshit. That man is a noble creature that can order his own world who needs God? Well, if there's anybody out there that can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell me that man is a noble creature, believe me: That man is full of bullshit. I don't have anything going for me. I haven't got any kids. And I was married for 33 years of shrill, shrieking fraud. So I don't have any bullshit left. I just ran out of it, you see.

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The Country Girl

Conflict Between Love and Harsh Reality

Bernie Dodd You make him tense and uneasy. You never stop handling him and now you're trying to handle me too!

Georgie Elgin And don't think I couldn't, after handling a cunning drunkard for 10 years.

Bernie Dodd If you had any compassion or love whatsoever for this man, you could never call him a cunning drunkard.

Georgie Elgin Maybe I have a greater love for the truth. That's what he is and I'm a drunkard's wife. That's the truth, too. And I think it's high time you stop looking at everything as if it were a musical comedy!

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

A Foreboding Statement on Their Fate

Cmdr. Shears We're going to be a busy pair of gravediggers.

[watching the British prisoners walk into the camp]

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Network

Tensions Rise Over Howard Beale's Controversial Message

Diana Christensen (on the phone) You're his goddamn agent. I'm counting on you to talk some sense into the lunatic. Nobody wants to hear about dying democracy and dehumanization.

Max Schumacher I'm sorry I'm late.

Diana Christensen (still on the phone) We're starting to get rumbles from the agencies. Another couple of weeks and the sponsors will be bailing out! This is a breach of contract. This isn't the Howard Beale we signed. Get him off that corporate universe kick, or so help me, I'll pull it off the air! I told him, Lou! I've been telling him every day for a week! I'm sick of telling him. Now you tell him! (hangs up) Jesus Christ. You could help me out with Howard if you wanted to. He listens to you. You're his best friend.

Max Schumacher I'm tired of all this hysteria about Howard Beale.

Diana Christensen Every time you come from seeing somebody in your family you come back in one of these middle-aged moods.

Max Schumacher And I'm tired of finding you on the god-damn telephone every time I turn around. I'm tired of being an accessory in your life! And I'm tired of pretending to write this dumb book about my maverick days in the great early years of television. Every god-damned executive fired from a network in the last twenty years has written this dumb book about the great early years of television. And nobody wants a dumb, damn, god-damn book about the great years of television...

Diana Christensen Terrific, Max! Maybe you can start a whole new career as an actor.

Max Schumacher After living with you for six months, I'm turning into one of your scripts. Well, this is not a script, Diana. There's some real actual life going on here. I went to visit my wife today because she's in a state of depression, so depressed that my daughter flew all the way from Seattle to be with her. And I feel lousy about that. I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and my kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken and all of those things that you think sentimental, but which my generation called simple human decency. And I miss my home because I'm beginning to get scared shitless. Because all of a sudden, it's closer to the end than it is to the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me - with definable features. You're dealing with a man that has primal doubts, Diana, and you've got to cope with it. I'm not some guy discussing male menopause on the ] Show'. I'm the man that you presumably love. I'm part of your life. I live here. I'm real. You can't switch to another station.

[[Barbara Walters]

Diana Christensen What exactly is it you want me to do?

Max Schumacher I just want you to love me. I just want you to love me, primal doubts and all. You understand that, don't you?

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Sunset Boulevard

Celebrating New Year's Eve with Creative Ideas

Joe Gillis I've got some ideas myself. One of them being this is New Year's Eve. How about living it up a little?

Betty Schaefer As for instance?

Joe Gillis Well....

Betty Schaefer We could make some paper boats and have a regatta. Or we could turn on the shower full blast.

Joe Gillis How about capturing the kitchen and barricading the door?

Betty Schaefer Are you hungry?

Joe Gillis Hungry? After twelve years in the Burmese jungle. I am starving, Lady Agatha -- starving for a white shoulder --

Betty Schaefer Phillip, you're mad!

Girl You can have the phone now.

Joe Gillis Thirsting for the coolness of your lips -

[Paying no attention]

Betty Schaefer No, Phillip, no. We must be strong. You're still wearing the uniform of the Coldstream Guards! Furthermore, you can have the phone now.

Joe Gillis O.K. Suddenly I find myself terribly afraid of losing you.

[He gets up, starts out, turns]

Betty Schaefer You won't. I'll get us a refill of this horrible liquid.

[She takes the glass out of his hand]

Joe Gillis You'll be waiting for me?

Betty Schaefer With a wildly beating heart.

Joe Gillis Life can be beautiful!

[He leaves.]

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The Country Girl

Struggles of Hollywood Casting and Aspirations

Bernie Dodd It's bad enough to go to Hollywood to cast. Now you suggest I go to heaven!

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The Country Girl

Strength and Dependency in Relationships

Georgie Elgin Frank's weak. He's a leaner! I happen to be the one he leans on.

Bernie Dodd The good, strong helpmate. Did it ever occur to you that you and your strength might be the very reason he is weak. I don't like strong women, Mrs. Elgin.

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Sunset Boulevard

Reflections on Fame and Death in Hollywood

Joe Gillis Well, this is where you came in. Back at that pool again, the one I always wanted. It's dawn now, and they must have photographed me a thousand times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out, ever so gently. Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead. They beached me like a harpooned baby whale and started to check the damage, just for the record. By this time, the whole joint was jumping - cops, reporters, neighbors, passersby, as much hoopdedoo as we get in Los Angeles when they open a supermarket. Even the newsreel guys came roaring in. Here was an item everybody could have some fun with, the heartless so-and-sos! What would they do to Norma? Even if she got away with it in court - crime of passion, temporary insanity - those headlines would kill her: Forgotten Star a Slayer, Aging Actress, Yesterday's Glamour Queen'...

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Network

The Allure of a Manufactured Prophet

Max Schumacher He could be jumping off a roof for all I know. The man is insane. He's not responsible for himself. He needs care and treatment. And all you grave-robbers think about is that he's a hit!

Diana Christensen You know, Max, it's just possible that he isn't insane, that he is, in fact, imbued with some special spirit.

Max Schumacher My God, I'm supposed to be the romantic. You're supposed to be the hard-bitten realist.

Diana Christensen All right. Howard Beale obviously fills a void. The audience out there obviously wants a prophet, even a manufactured one, even if he's as mad as Moses. By tomorrow, he'll have a 50 share, maybe even a 60. Howard Beale is processed instant God, and right now, it looks like he may just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

Max Schumacher I am not putting Howard back on the air.

Diana Christensen It's not your show any more, Max, it's mine.

Frank Hackett I gave her the show, Schumacher. I'm putting the network news show under programming. Mr. Ruddy has had a mild heart attack and is not taking calls. In his absence, I'm making all network decisions, including one I've been wanting to make a long time - you're fired.

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The Wild Bunch

Final Chance for Redemption

Pike Bishop This is our last go-around, Dutch. This time, we do it right!

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Damien - Omen II

Revelation About Bugenhagen and the Daggers

Dr. Charles Warren Did you know Bugenhagen gave your brother the daggers to kill Damien?

Richard Thorn What the hell are you talking about?

Dr. Charles Warren Years ago, Bugenhagen wrote you a letter-

Richard Thorn I never got a letter.

Dr. Charles Warren It was never sent. It was still in the box. Richard... you know that I'm a rational man, but what I have to say to you isn't rational. Bugenhagen claims that Damien is the devil's son: the beast foretold in the Book of Revelation. He isn't human. He was born of a jackal. I know it sounds incredible.

Richard Thorn Why are you telling me this?

Dr. Charles Warren Your brother was convinced. He went to Bugenhagen for help. Bugenhagen told him how to kill the boy.

Richard Thorn My brother was mentally ill. His wife was...

Dr. Charles Warren Was killed by Damien. Five deaths, Richard - five unexplained, horrible accidents. According to Bugenhagen...

Richard Thorn Who was obviously insane. And you believe it!

Dr. Charles Warren Read his letter yourself.

Richard Thorn I won't read the ravings of a senile old man!

Dr. Charles Warren I knew Bugenhagen. He wasn't senile. If what he says is true, we are all in great danger. You, Ann, Mark - all of us. Have you noticed anything suspicious?

Richard Thorn No.

Dr. Charles Warren Something he's said?

Richard Thorn Nothing.

Dr. Charles Warren There've been deaths among us. Joan, Bill, Pasarian...

Richard Thorn Coincidental.

Dr. Charles Warren What about Aunt Marion? There's proof.

Richard Thorn What proof?

Dr. Charles Warren Yigael's Wall. Bugenhagen saw it. It's the thing that convinced him.

Richard Thorn That's enough, Charles! I don't wanna hear any more of your religious rants!

Dr. Charles Warren The wall arrives in New York tomorrow-

Richard Thorn THEN YOU GO AND LOOK AT IT!

Dr. Charles Warren I will.

Sunset Boulevard

The Complexity of a Hollywood Comeback

Joe Gillis I didn't know you were planning a comeback.

Norma Desmond I hate that word. It's a return, a return to the millions of people who have never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Reflections on Death in Harsh Conditions

Cmdr. Shears Mostly Aussies, some Lime, some British, Indians, Burmese, Siamese...They died, of malaria, dysentery, beriberi, gangrene. Other causes of death: famine, overwork, bullet wounds, snake bites, Saito. And then there were some who just got tired of living.

The Country Girl

Navigating Truth in Relationships and Critique

Georgie Elgin I try to be careful, Mr. Dodd, but being an actor's wife is not the easiest of jobs. If I tell him he's magnificent, he says I'm not honest. If I tell him he's not magnificent, he says I don't love him.

Bernie Dodd Why don't you tell him he's good but can be better.

Georgie Elgin Is that what the critics will tell him?

Bernie Dodd Are you a critic or a wife?

The Country Girl

A Girl's Perspective on Theatre and Acting

Bernie Dodd I'm just trying to find out if you were ever an actress?

Georgie Elgin Oh, no. Not me. Thank you. I'm just a girl from the country. The theatre and its people have always been a complete mystery to me. They still are.

The Country Girl

Loyalty in Personal Relationships

Bernie Dodd Are you for him or against him?

Georgie Elgin I'm his wife.

The Country Girl

The Mystery of a Dark Theatre

Georgie Elgin You're sure I'm not in the way?

Bernie Dodd No, no. We're just closing up shop, giving it back to the theatre ghosts.

Georgie Elgin There's nothing quite so mysterious and silent as a dark theatre. A night without a star.

Sunset Boulevard

The Illusion of Fame and Size

Joe Gillis You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.

Norma Desmond I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

The Wild Bunch

The Consequences of Leadership in Turmoil

Pike Bishop If they ever get armed with good leaders, this whole country will go up in smoke.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Reflection on Sacrifice and Suffering

Cmdr. Shears Here lies Corporal Herbert Thompson, serial number 01234567, valiant member of the King's own, and Queen's own, or something, who died of beriberi in the year of our Lord 1943. For the greater glory of... what did he die for?...I don't mock the grave or the man. May he rest in peace. He found little enough of it while he was alive.

[pause]

The Wild Bunch

A Plan for Hidden Supplies

Pike Bishop When I get my share of the gold, twenty five hundred dollars worth, I'll tell you where four cases are. The others are waiting for me back at the wagon. If I don't show up pretty quick, they'll blow it...The quicker I get back, the quicker you get the next load...Up the arroyo about two miles, you'll find three cases of rifles and one case of ammunition hidden in the bush.

The Country Girl

The Impact of Guidance in Success

Georgie Elgin Let's say I try my small way to help.

Bernie Dodd That's what my ex-wife used to keep me reminding of, cheerfully. She had a theory that behind every great man there was a great woman. She also was thoroughly convinced that she was great and all I needed to qualify was guidance on her part.

Georgie Elgin Still does not prove that the theory is completely wrong. I imagine one can go through history and find a few good examples.

Bernie Dodd It's a pity that ] never had a wife to guide him; he might have really gotten somewhere.

[[Leonardo da Vinci]

Network

The Dark Side of Media Ratings

Howard Beale I'm gonna blow my brains out right on the air, right in the middle of the seven o'clock news.

Max Schumacher Well, you'll get a hell of a rating, I'll tell you that. A 50 share, at least. We could make a series of it. Suicide of the Week. Aw, hell, why limit ourselves? Execution of the Week.

Howard Beale Terrorist of the Week.

Max Schumacher I love it. Suicides, assassinations, mad bombers, Mafia hitmen, automobile smash-ups: The Death Hour. A great Sunday night show for the whole family. It'd wipe that fuckin Disney right off the air.

The Country Girl

Perceptions of Age and Self-Presentation

Georgie Elgin You're even younger than I thought.

Bernie Dodd And you try to look like an old lady. You're not. You shouldn't wear your hair like that. There are two kinds of women: those who pay too much attention to themselves and those who don't pay enough.

Georgie Elgin Say, that's quite a pearl of wisdom. May I quote you?

[sarcastically]

Sunset Boulevard

Struggles with Self-Identity and Doubt

Betty Schaefer Don't you sometimes hate yourself?

Joe Gillis Constantly.

The Country Girl

Authority and Its Impact on Performance

Philip Cook The dame in this paper puts her finger on it. Right on it. She says, "Elgin lacks authority in a role that cries for it." No authority. That's it.

Bernie Dodd You know why he lacks authority? Because his wife has too much of it.

Memorable Quotes from William Holden

find it. watch it.