Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Disappearing Trick (1958)

Betsy von Furstenberg: Laura Gild

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• Laura Gild : You like a drink?

  Walter Richmond : Well, I don't want to trouble you.

  Laura Gild : I'll tell you when it's trouble. Okay?

  Walter Richmond : Okay.

• Laura Gild : Does your work bring you down to La Jolla very often, Mr Richmond.

  Walter Richmond : It's beginning to look like that, Mrs Gild.

• Laura Gild : I can tell a lot about a person, just looking.

  Walter Richmond : Like what?

  Laura Gild : Well, not everything of course, but a lot. Take the way you dress, the way you cut your hair. I can tell you're particular. You like nice things.

  Walter Richmond : I like nice things.

  Laura Gild : The way you move, the way you carry yourself as if you're sure. You know, it's something more than that. You some kind of athlete?

  Walter Richmond : I play a lot of tennis.

  Laura Gild : See, I can tell a lot, just looking.

  Walter Richmond : But not everything.

  Laura Gild : Well, who can tell everything?

• Laura Gild : The questions are more fun when you know the answers.

• Walter Richmond : You play a better game than I thought.

  Laura Gild : Well, I can play other games besides tennis.

  Walter Richmond : Tennis is for kids.

  Laura Gild : This kid is thirsty.

  Walter Richmond : Always come to me with small problems I can solve.

• Laura Gild : Looks like I'm in the driver's seat, doesn't it, Walter?

  Walter Richmond : I haven't been giving you enough credit, dear.

  Laura Gild : No, but you'll learn to, darling.

  Walter Richmond : Do you trust me, darling?

  Laura Gild : Not for a moment.

  Walter Richmond : How'd you know I was here?

  Laura Gild : I had you followed all weekend. Will you give me the keys, or do I have to call on my husband?

• Walter Richmond : Nice view. Must have cost a lot of money.

  Laura Gild : Herbert's view. Five year lease paid in advance. La Jolla, it's what I wanted, it's what I got.

  Walter Richmond : Who doesn't want La Jolla?

  Laura Gild : From the wrong side of the San Diego naval yard, it looks like paradise. Five miles down the road. How do you get there?

  Walter Richmond : Herbert?

  Laura Gild : He was nice, he was sweet. I liked him.

  Walter Richmond : And his money?

  Laura Gild : His money, I could have loved. Enough of it. It was a fair fight. We both got cheated a little.