The Family (1970)

Telly Savalas: Al Weber

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• Al Weber : You like my place? It costs more than an aircraft carrier,

  [chuckles] 

  Al Weber : but I had to have it.

  [pushes button, and giant mural disappears to reveal indoor swimming pool] 

  Al Weber : I've got a very, very demanding wife. You know something, before she'd marry me, I had to buy her a million dollar country place.

  [she is swimming naked in the pool] 

  Al Weber : Hey, I'm not complaining. She earned it long before the honeymoon was even over.

  [chuckles] 

  Al Weber : You've got a lot of style.

  [she gets out and Jeff sees that it's Vanessa] 

  Al Weber : You know something, Jeff, I'm not a novice, I've been around, but I will tell you something. She showed me more surprises, I mean, very, very pleasant ones.

  [as Jeff looks at her] 

  Al Weber : Oh, oh, I forgot, you knew her. She used to run around with you a couple of years ago, right, and then she dumped you for this guy Coogan when he got his inheritance. It's all right, Jeff, I squared it for you. I mean, she dumped him too, and quickly, the minute she met me. Hey, you were smart to let her go. I mean, she's too... she's too lively. No, you're young, you'd have taken it too badly. As for me, as far as I'm concerned, when she goes off on one of these escapades, you know, I'm... relieved, I'm an old man, I gotta rest every now and then. Oh, women, they're so beautiful, you know, they could be the biggest boors in the world, and yet, they insist on... propriety, and keeping up appearances. When she goes off on these romantic weekends, then she knows that if I object, she wouldn't move an inch, and yet, she comes back, and she starts these... these scenes, telling all these lies, twenty years old is the tale. Ah. You know, in her own way, I think she's... she's a great artist. Come on, let's drink, let's drink... let's drink to the talents of my wife.

  Jeff Heston : I told you I wasn't thirsty.

• Vanessa Shelton : [found the negatives in the bureau]  Are these the ones, Jeff?

  [hands them to him] 

  Jeff Heston : [quickly checking]  Burn them.

  Al Weber : [as she starts getting rid of the evidence]  Uhm. Good girl.

  [knowing what must follow:] 

  Al Weber : And now you'd better send her off, Jeff. Vanessa, she... hates violence. Don't you, darling?

  Jeff Heston : Okay. You remember everything, Vanessa?

  Vanessa Shelton : Hotel Jericho. Miss Brown. Hurry, darling.

  [starts leaving] 

  Al Weber : Vanessa!

  [she stops] 

  Al Weber : Goodbye. And, uh, congratulations.

  [she leaves, he chuckles] 

  Al Weber : Dear, dear little Vanessa.

  [smirks] 

  Al Weber : I gotta give her credit. She's got an awful lot on the ball with you, Jeff. You're a big disappointment to me... and it's funny, with her, you seem to lose all your strength, as if she's taken it all from you. I wanna tell you something, and I don't care if you believe me or not. But she's screwing you all over town. Along with the negatives in that drawer, there was a copy of the print. And she just snuck 'em out... right in front of your very eyes.

  Jeff Heston : Nah. If she had done that, you'd have told me right away.

  [picking up a cushion from the chair] 

  Al Weber : I find it more amusing. You wanna kill me, don't you, Jeff? Ah, I might as well enjoy it. What's the matter, you lost the courage to pull the trigger? You have your doubts, your second thoughts?

  [Jeff places the cushion over the gun barrel] 

  Al Weber : Let me tell you, Jeff, you're screwed for the rest of your life. You know, you ate the apple, and they're gonna throw you out of the garden of Eden. And if you do any more killing, your victims are gonna haunt you for the rest of your life...!

  [Jeff shoots him, and he is blown backwards] 

• Al Weber : She's using you! All she wants to do, is plant her pretty little behind on that throne where I'm sitting right now. Turn that gun on her, Jeff. And I'll make you out a check for ten million dollars right now.