'Telephone Operator' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Mobsters (1991)
Actors:
Christian Slater (actor),
Titus Welliver (actor),
Richard Grieco (actor),
Costas Mandylor (actor),
Seymour Cassel (actor),
Andy Romano (actor),
Chris Penn (actor),
Anthony Quinn (actor),
Willie Garson (actor),
F. Murray Abraham (actor),
Patrick Dempsey (actor),
Nick Dimitri (actor),
Michael Gambon (actor),
Lara Flynn Boyle (actress),
Robert Z'Dar (actor),
Plot: The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime. As their crime empire expands, they have to deal with many problems, including their own differing opinions on how to run their business, the local Godfather, and the psychotic Mad Dog Coll.
Keywords: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, attempted-murder, bare-chested-male, based-on-true-story, beating, betrayal, black-and-white-segues-into-color, blood
Genres:
Crime,
Drama,
Taglines: They had what it took to build an empire...They just built it on the wrong side of the law. They didn't take orders...They took over. They rose from nothing to rule everything. Four reasons why the Twenties Roared. So you think life was quieter in the old days...? THINK AGAIN!
Quotes:
Bugsy: I'm Bugsy Siegel, ever heard of me?::Showgirl: No, what do you do?::Bugsy: I kill people.
Don Salvatore Faranzano: [supposedly, Lucky offers his services to Faranzano as a mole against Don Masseria] I hope you can appreciate some facts, Charlie. Conditions have changed. Some people have gotten too powerful... I want you to take care of Don Masseria personally, do it yourself. That's not all, though. Lansky and Siegel. I know you've always gotten along, but Jews, they're different. You cross 'em once, fight with 'em once, and they're gone. I know this. I've heard they're a different race... Jews. You and I take Communion. They don't even believe in sin. They'll betray you, just like they betrayed Jesus H. Christ Himself. You join my family, they die. No one will even know you approved.::Lucky: Looks like I don't have a choice, do I? Either I agree to kill my friends, or you kill me.::Don Salvatore Faranzano: That's right.
Lucky: [to his father] What are you sayin, Pop? That because I'm a greasy immigrant, all I can do is clean fish? That ain't enough! I got a right to find work that uses my brain!
Don Salvatore Faranzano: [to Papa Luciano, after molesting both him and his wife] I just felt your balls, so I know why she needs her own.
Arnold Rothstein: Mr. Luciano, you're walking down the street. Suddenly you realize you're being followed. It's a hit. Walking towards you is a second gunman. You have time to fire at only one of them. Which one do...::Lucky: [cutting him off] I don't accept the question. To live, I gotta kill 'em both.
Lucky: I don't have a wife, because emotion is dangerous.::Arnold Rothstein: Aren't you human?::Lucky: Would it help?
Arnold Rothstein: I have ships and distilleries in Scotland. I need distribution in New York.::Lucky: Masseria? Faranzano?::Arnold Rothstein: Either of them would kill me.::Lucky: And I wouldn't because...?::Arnold Rothstein: You have Jewish partners.::Lucky: Maybe I kill them too.::Arnold Rothstein: You can't afford to; you're in the squeeze. Either Masseria or Faranzano realize you exist, they squash you like an ant...::Lucky: [the penny drops for him]... Unless I get a powerful friend, right?::Arnold Rothstein: [indicates himself] Exactly.
Arnold Rothstein: What's the secret of America? MONEY! Everything is MONEY, Charlie. But you'll never make any money, because you dress like a schmuck.
Frank Costello: [as the Big Four consider Faranzano's offer]... Fifteen percent off the top from Faranzano's operation, huh? You know how much money that is? Well, I don't either. But it's a hell of a lot.::Meyer Lansky: But as soon as we sold to Faranzano, he'd knock you off because you're Sicilian; one day, you might wanna be boss. If he iced you now, there'd be a stink all right. But if you're working for Faranzano, who's gonna come after him except the three of us? And then we'd all be history.::Lucky: That's why we're in partnership with these Jews, Frankie.
Don Giuseppe 'Joe the Boss' Masseria: [to Luciano] I've seen a lot of guys just like you come and go, Charlie. The ones who come, they come to me. The ones who go... [laughs]... I'm the guy who sends them off.
1941 (1979)
Actors:
Jerry Hardin (actor),
David L. Lander (actor),
Murray Hamilton (actor),
Samuel Fuller (actor),
Ned Beatty (actor),
Joe Flaherty (actor),
John Belushi (actor),
John Candy (actor),
Dan Aykroyd (actor),
Eddie Deezen (actor),
Gary Carlos Cervantes (actor),
James Caan (actor),
Don Calfa (actor),
Elisha Cook Jr. (actor),
John Landis (actor),
Plot: Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. An assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion, in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness, along with a Captain in Germany's Kreigsmarine (Navy).
Keywords: 1940s, absurdism, admiral, air-force-base, airplane, amusement-park, anti-aircraft-gun, aviation, bare-breasts, barn
Genres:
Action,
Comedy,
War,
Taglines: A Comedy Spectacular!
Quotes:
Japanese soldier: [trying to squeeze a large radio into the sub] We've got to figure out how to make these things smaller!
Captain Loomis Birkhead: [to Donna] It's big. The biggest one here. You know what else? It's got a lot of range. You know what I mean by range, don't you? I mean it can stay up for a long time. A very long time. And it's built firm and solid. Because it has to be. Because of its tremendous forward thrust. And when this baby delivers its payload... devastating.
General Joseph W. Stilwell: This isn't the state of California, it's a state of insanity.
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!::Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?::Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!::Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!
Hollis P. Wood: You sneaky little batards aren't getting doodly shit from me, except maybe my name, rank, and Social Security number: Wood, Hollis P., Lumberjack, Social Security 106-43-2185.
Hollis P. Wood: [after seeing Captain von Kleinschmidt enter] Jesus Palomino, a Nazi. I knew it, you're all in cahoots. Well let me tell you something, Mr. Heinie Kraut, I fought your kind in the great war, and we kicked the living shit out of you!
[to Betty, before she leaves for the USO]::Ward Douglas: I don't know what they've told you down at the USO, but you're going to be meeting a lot of strange men. Men in uniform. Boys a long way from home, lonely, desperate. They really have one thing on their minds. Show 'em a good time.
Sergeant Frank Tree: If there's one thing I can't stand seeing, it's Americans fighting Americans.
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: To Hollywood... and glory!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: Kid, you gotta get that sub.::Wally Stephens: What sub?::Captain Wild Bill Kelso: The Jap sub.::Wally Stephens: Where?::Captain Wild Bill Kelso: The ocean, lame-o.
The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight (1979)
Actors:
Vlasta Vrana (actor),
Bo Svenson (actor),
John Boylan (actor),
Trevor Howard (actor),
Budd Knapp (actor),
Terry Haig (actor),
Desmond Davis (director),
Miguel Fernandes (actor),
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (writer),
Alvin Goldman (writer),
Céline Lomez (actress),
Ted Follows (actor),
Michael Kramer (actor),
Genres:
Drama,
'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)
Actors:
Ronald Howard (actor),
Roland Pertwee (actor),
Aubrey Mallalieu (actor),
Allan Jeayes (actor),
A.E. Matthews (actor),
Charles Paton (actor),
Sebastian Cabot (actor),
Vincent Holman (actor),
Michael Brennan (actor),
Raymond Huntley (actor),
Peter Gawthorne (actor),
Leslie Howard (actor),
Arthur Hambling (actor),
Roddy Hughes (actor),
Michael Rennie (actor),
Plot: It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover that the professor is the man responsible for smuggling a number of enemies of the Nazi state out of Germany, they enthusiastically join him in his fight. But things are complicated when one of his students brings a mysterious woman into their circle, a woman who is secretly working for the Gestapo.
Keywords: absent-mindedness, antiquities, aphrodite, archaeologist, bachelor, based-on-novel, cambridge-england, character-name-in-title, cigarette-smoking, concentration-camp
Genres:
Adventure,
Comedy,
Drama,
War,
Taglines: The man the Gestapo hates! Leslie Howard in his greatest role since "Pygmalion"! The elusive "Mister V" he's everywhere!
Quotes:
Professor Horatio Smith: [having just dodged the Nazis again] Well, I'm almost ashamed to use that old trick, but it nearly always works.
General von Graum: But we have one problem. "To be or not to be?" as our great German poet said.::Professor Horatio Smith: German? But that's Shakespeare.::Professor Horatio Smith: But you don't know?::Professor Horatio Smith: Why, I know it's Shakespeare. I thought Shakespeare was English.::General von Graum: No, no, no. Shakespeare is a German. Professor Schuessbacher has proved it once and for all.::Professor Horatio Smith: Dear, how very upsetting. Still, you must admit that the English translations are most remarkable.::General von Graum: Good night.::Professor Horatio Smith: Good night. Good night. "Parting is such sweet sorrow."::General von Graum: What is that?::Professor Horatio Smith: That's one of the most famous lines in German literature.
Professor Horatio Smith: I'm so glad to find you're not busy, because I've been doing a little research work...::General von Graum: That's just what I wanted to do.::Professor Horatio Smith: ...On the identity of Shakespeare.::General von Graum: I'd like to know how you spent this afternoon.::Professor Horatio Smith: What's the matter with you? You seem upset. I spent the afternoon in the library at the embassy. Now this, this proves conclusively that Shakespeare wasn't really Shakespeare at all.::General von Graum: No?::Professor Horatio Smith: No. He was the Earl of Oxford. Now you can't pretend that the Earl of Oxford was a German, can you?::Professor Horatio Smith: [Speaking to Steinhof] Now, can you?::Steinhof: No! No!::Professor Horatio Smith: Well, there you are.::Steinhof: Herr General, how much longer am I to stand here? Have you anything to say to me?::General von Graum: Please, we have a visitor. I think you have met Professor Smith.::Steinhof: No. Good day. Goodbye.::General von Graum: But you HAVE met Herr Boldenschatz.::Steinhof: Boldenschatz! Do you know Boldenschatz?::Professor Horatio Smith: No. Should I?::Steinhof: Bah! Anyway, I didn't come here to discuss Shakespeare. If you want me, you know where I am.::Professor Horatio Smith: The Earl of Oxford was a very bright Elizabethan light, but this book will tell you he was a good deal more than that.
Professor Horatio Smith: A dead man. Would you like to see him? There we are. Buried with all his weapons, you see, presumably, in the belief that there might be a rearmament program in the hereafter, eh, Mr. Spencer? An ancient Teuton. "Alas poor Yorick, get thee to my lady's chamber, my dear general. Tell her that, though she paint an inch thick, to this favour must she come; make her laugh at that." The Earl of Oxford wrote that, you know.
[Smith now caught by the gestapo]::Professor Horatio Smith: This must be a big moment for you.::General von Graum: A minor satisfaction. I wanted to get you out of my system before I turn my mind to more important matters. You've become a great nuisance to me, professor - almost an obsession - but everything comes to an end.::Professor Horatio Smith: What particular end did you plan for me?::General von Graum: Need we go into details? At least it will be quick.::Professor Horatio Smith: But violent, I suppose - a strange end for one who despises violence - at the hands of those who worship it. The new German God...::General von Graum: Of course we worship it. Violence means power, and power crushes opposition. The epoch of the council chamber is over, Herr Professor. I tell you that power and strength and violence will rule the world!::Professor Horatio Smith: Why are you sweating, my dear general? It isn't very warm. Are you afraid of something?::General von Graum: Afraid? We Germans fear nothing::Professor Horatio Smith: Ah. Because you have a pistol?::General von Graum: Yes, I have a pistol. It has eight bullets. Eight lives.::Professor Horatio Smith: And I have twenty-eight lives.::General von Graum: Huh?::Professor Horatio Smith: Scientists, men of letters, artists, doctors... Twenty-eight saved from your pagan pistol, and all you've got is my humble self. Not a very profitable transaction.::General von Graum: Mm. We can afford to make a loss, our profits will be tremendous. Tonight we march against Poland, and tomorrow we'll see the dawn of a new order. We shall make a German empire of the world. Why do I talk to you? You are a dead man.::Professor Horatio Smith: May a dead man say a few words to you, General, for your enlightenment? You will never rule the world... because you are doomed. All of you who have demoralized and corrupted a nation are doomed. Tonight you will take the first step along a dark road from which there is no turning back. You will have to go on and on, from one madness to another, leaving behind you a wilderness of misery and hatred. And still, you will have to go on... because you will find no horizon... and see no dawn... until at last you are lost and destroyed. You are doomed, Captain of Murderers, and one day, sooner or later, you will remember my words.::[Train whistles]
[Professor Horatio Smith disappears behind a cloud of smoke]::Professor Horatio Smith: Don't worry, I shall be back.::[the General fires through the smoke]::Professor Horatio Smith: [sounding unharmed] We shall *all* be back.
Graubitz: Gentlemen, please. Gentlemen. The Minister of Propaganda instructs me to inform all foreign correspondents that rumors of a mysterious personage helping enemies of the state to escape from Germany are without foundation. We can assure you there have been no such escapes and there is no such rescuer. Furthermore, in Nazi Germany no one can hope to be saved by anybody.
Jordan: You're late.::Professor Horatio Smith: Late for what?::Jordan: Your lecture, sir.::Professor Horatio Smith: Oh, don't be ridiculous. My lecture isn't till Friday.::Jordan: But today IS Friday, sir.::Professor Horatio Smith: Good heavens. How extraordinary. W-w-what happened to Thursday?::Jordan: We had it yesterday, sir.::Professor Horatio Smith: Did we?
David Maxwell: Archeologists are always a thousand years behind the times.
Professor Horatio Smith: No, I hate violence. It seems such a paradox to kill a man before you can persuade him what's right. So uncivilized.
Bláhové devce (1938)
Actors:
Betty Kysilková (actress),
Hermína Vojtová (actress),
Zita Kabátová (actress),
Bohus Záhorský (actor),
F.X. Mlejnek (actor),
Vladimír Smíchovský (actor),
Bolek Prchal (actor),
Milka Balek-Brodská (actress),
Frantisek Kreuzmann (actor),
Theodor Pistek (actor),
Frantisek Paul (actor),
Jaroslav Marvan (actor),
Jirí Hron (actor),
Václav Binovec (director),
Hana Vítová (actress),
Genres:
,
High Tension (1936)
Actors:
Pat Hartigan (actor),
Eric Alden (actor),
Duke Green (actor),
Sherry Hall (actor),
Ward Bond (actor),
Wade Boteler (actor),
Norman Foster (actor),
Murray Alper (actor),
Dick Elliott (actor),
Jimmie Dundee (actor),
George Chandler (actor),
Russ Clark (actor),
Brian Donlevy (actor),
Charles Dorety (actor),
Edward Hearn (actor),
Genres:
Comedy,
If You Could Only Cook (1935)
Actors:
Russell Hicks (actor),
Arthur Hohl (actor),
Ralf Harolde (actor),
Ralph Brooks (actor),
Jonathan Hale (actor),
William Arnold (actor),
Leo Carrillo (actor),
Jack Cheatham (actor),
James Conaty (actor),
Frank Hall Crane (actor),
Lew Davis (actor),
Walter Byron (actor),
Edgar Dearing (actor),
Sayre Dearing (actor),
Mike Lally (actor),
Plot: Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn't love him and a board of directors who won't listen to him. Brooding on a park bench, he meets unemployed Joan Hawthorne, a fine cook who needs a partner to apply for a 'couple' butler/cook job with gourmet ex-bootlegger Mike Rossini. Bemused, Buchanan goes along with the gag, taking lessons from his own butler. But there's sure to be a day of reckoning...
Keywords: abduction, arrest, automobile-designer, automobile-manufacturer, bed, board-meeting, business-competition, businessman, butler, cook
Genres:
Comedy,
Romance,
Taglines: SHE GAVE UP HER PARK BENCH FOR HIM! HE GAVE UP MILLIONS FOR HER! (original print ad - all caps)
Quotes:
Jim Buchanan: Do you think I'm out of my mind?::Jennings: I'm hoping for the best sir!
Evelyn Fletcher: [soon to be bride instructing her groom on the ceremony] And then you just keep saying I do.::Roy - Pianist at Wedding Rehearsal: Until you're done!
Mike Rossini: Yer cook is in the jug - J-A-I-L - jug!
Joan Hawthorne: There oughta be a law against parks... and benches... and him!
Joan Hawthorne: Say... can you buttle?
Gambling Ship (1933)
Actors:
Spencer Charters (actor),
Louis Natheaux (actor),
Syd Saylor (actor),
Hooper Atchley (actor),
Edward Gargan (actor),
Cary Grant (actor),
Frank Moran (actor),
Arthur Hoyt (actor),
Roscoe Karns (actor),
Jack La Rue (actor),
Marc Lawrence (actor),
Theodore Lorch (actor),
Edwin Maxwell (actor),
Frank Mills (actor),
William Welsh (actor),
Plot: Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
Keywords: gangster, melodrama
Genres:
Drama,
Vengeance Is Mine! (1916)
Actors:
Crane Wilbur (actor),
Crane Wilbur (writer),
David Horsley (miscellaneous crew),
David Horsley (producer),
Carl von Schiller (actor),
Gypsy Abbott (actress),
Steve Murphy (actor),
Harry De More (actor),
Robert Broadwell (director),
M.D. Morgan (actor),
Brooklyn Keller (actor),
Albert Ellis (actor),
William Jackson (actor),
F.A. Johnston (actor),
C.W. Mills (actor),
Genres:
Drama,