:44:09
Hello, Phil.
Sorry to be late.
:44:11
So many things to take care of.
Business, business, business.
:44:14
Why'd you ask me
to meet you here?
:44:16
- I'm afraid of Kristo. You're not.
- You bet I'm not.
:44:20
He came to the gym last Monday.
You know what he said?
:44:23
"Go to Montreal, which is in Canada."
:44:25
You know what I did?
Had the bouncer toss him down the stairs.
:44:28
- He crawled like a sewer rat.
- I'm sure.
:44:31
There's one thing to settle - the hundred quid
for the final payment in the arena.
:44:35
- We're all set.
- Harry, I brought you here to tell you...
:44:38
that I'm withdrawing
from our partnership.
:44:41
- What?
- I'm advised that your kind
of wrestling can't succeed.
:44:45
This Greco-Roman,
it won't draw flies.
:44:48
But you can't back out now.
You've invested a lot of money.
:44:51
I'm sorry.
I'll take the loss. And that's final.
:44:58
Phil, wait! Phil.
Phil, wait.
:45:02
Why are you backing out?
Everything's in the palm of my hand. Why?
:45:05
I refuse to throw
good money after bad.
:45:07
- But you know what this means to me, Phil.
- Harry. Harry.
:45:10
This is my last word
on the subject.
:45:12
Get a box office attraction, a big name,
then you'll get the money.
:45:15
What do you mean?
:45:17
Well, I know nothing
about wrestling...
:45:19
but I'm told there are men
who are big draws.
:45:22
- Men like, for instance, the Strangler.
- The Stra -
:45:25
But I can't.
Gregorious would leave me.
:45:28
If you don't, I'm forced to leave you.
And then where are you?
:45:32
As I see it, Harry, your only course
is to keep moving right ahead.
:45:36
Go on, get the Strangler.
That's your first problem.
:45:39
Then I'm sure you'll have no difficulty
in persuading any wrestler to meet him.
:45:42
Seems to me you have
no alternative, have you?
:45:49
All right, I can do it.
I can do it. I'll do it.
:45:52
- But will you give me the money
to get the Strangler?
- Of course I will.
:45:55
I'll back you without limit.
I consider it a sound investment, dear boy.
:45:59
All right.