Peyton Place (1957)

Lee Philips: Michael Rossi

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• Mr. Harrington : This job starts at 3,000 a year.

  Michael Rossi : Then we're all wasting our time. That's only $5 a week more than I was making as a teacher, Mr. Harrington

  Mr. Harrington : But this offers you security -- a long term contract.

  Michael Rossi : Guaranteed poverty is not security.

• Michael Rossi : I kissed you. You kissed me. That's affection, not carnality. That's affection, not lust. You ought to know the difference.

• Michael Rossi : I intend to initiate a sex-education course in the school.

  Constance MacKenzie : Isn't that a function of the home?

  Michael Rossi : You'd think it would be, yet not one parent in ten does it. No, sex is taboo in the home.

  Constance MacKenzie : And it should be in the schools.

  Michael Rossi : Where would they learn it, the alleys in parked cars?

  Constance MacKenzie : They'll learn it when they marry. Good night Mr. Rossi.

• Allison MacKenzie : [Asking about the stories she wrote]  What do you think? Are they good enough to send to a magazine?

  Michael Rossi : Yes, if you want to end up in prison. Those stories were full of enough libel and slander and double entendre to hang us all. Allison, is that how Peyton Place really looks to you?

  Allison MacKenzie : They were only fiction. I didn't use any real names.

  Michael Rossi : You didn't have to. I recognized everybody in town.