:08:01
I'm over a barrel.
I need a job.
:08:03
- I haven't got a thing.
- Anything. Additional dialogue.
:08:07
There's nothing. Honest.
:08:12
Look, Mr. Sheldrake.
:08:14
Could you let me have 300 bucks
yourself, as a personal loan?
:08:17
Could I? Gillis.
:08:22
Last year somebody talked me
into buying a ranch in the Valley.
:08:25
So I borrowed the money from the
bank in order to pay for the ranch.
:08:28
This year I mortgaged the ranch so
I could keep up my life insurance...
:08:31
so I could borrow on my insurance--
:08:36
After that
I drove down to headquarters.
:08:39
That's the way a lot of us
think about Schwab's drugstore.
:08:43
Kind of a combination office,
kaffee klatch and waiting room.
:08:47
Waiting.
:08:49
Waiting for the gravy train.
:08:53
I got myself ten nickels and started
sending out a general SOS.
:08:58
Couldn't get hold of my agent,
naturally.
:09:01
So then I called a pal of mine,
Artie Green...
:09:04
an awful nice guy,
an assistant director.
:09:07
He could let me have 20.
:09:09
But 20 wouldn't do.
:09:12
Then I talked to
a couple of yes-men at Metro.
:09:15
To me they said no.
:09:17
Finally I located that agent
of mine. The big faker.
:09:22
Was he out digging up a job
for poor Joe Gillis?
:09:25
No. He was hard at work in Bel-Air,
making with the golf sticks.
:09:34
So you need $300.
Of course I could give you $300.
:09:37
- Only I'm not going to.
- No?
:09:40
Get this. I'm not just your agent.
It's not the ten percent.
:09:44
- I'm your friend.
- You are?
:09:46
Don't you know the finest things
were written on an empty stomach?
:09:50
Once a talent gets in that Mocambo-
Romanoff rut, you're through.
:09:54
Forget Romanoff's.
It's the car I'm talkin' about!
:09:56
If I lose my car, it's like
having my legs cut off.
:09:58
Greatest thing
that could happen to you.