After the Fox (1966)

Martin Balsam: Harry Granoff

Quotes 

• Aldo Vanucci : [as Fabrizi, explaining the concept of his movie]  Tony plays 'The Fox'...

  Tony Powell : [interrupting]  An animal picture!

  Aldo Vanucci : No, "The Fox", a master criminal with an ingenious plan to smuggle gold into Italy, and - a surprise ending!

  Harry Granoff : What's the ingenious plan?

  Aldo Vanucci : *That* is the surprise ending.

  Tony Powell : I love it! When do we start shooting?

• Aldo Vanucci : [introducing himself after making a grand entrance into the room]  Federico Fabrizi!

  Harry Granoff : I'm sorry, I don't speak Italian.

• Harry Granoff : [to Aldo, who he thinks is movie director Federico Fabrizi, for his client, actor Tony Powell]  What about a contact?

  Aldo Vanucci : [excitedly]  Contract?

  Aldo Vanucci : [after grabbing Powell and kissing him on the cheek]  There is my contract.

  Harry Granoff : Do I get a copy for my lawyer?

• Tony Powell : I wonder what's the matter with my stomach. What do they put in lasagna?

  Harry Granoff : Lasagna? At your age it's hard to digest corn flakes.

• Tony Powell : Why don't you send out for a wheelchair and have me rolled into the old actors' home? I don't care what it says in Who's Who. I still feel 35 years old. And you can tell Sam Duffleman for me, if he wants me to play a 64-year-old sheriff in his next picture, he'll have to wait another 20 years.

  Harry Granoff : Who's gonna belleve you're 64?

  Tony Powell : 63-year-old ladies. I remember that trench coat there is your bread and butter. Without it you have 10 per cent of nothing.

  Harry Granoff : All right, you don't have to be 64. You could be 60.

  Tony Powell : I don't wanna be 60! I wanna be 40.

  Harry Granoff : How can you be 40 when your son is 35?

  Tony Powell : They can make the son 25.

  Harry Granoff : How can you make the son 25 when his wife is 30?

• Tony Powell : Look at those teeth, Harry. Just look at 'em. How many people in the world over 40 can still say they have their own teeth, huh?

  Harry Granoff : And how many people over 50 can still say they're only 40?

• Harry Granoff : Tony, sweetheart, I wish we could turn the clock back for you. We all wanna stay young! But you can't lie to the close-up lens, baby. You know that. You try leading the charge of the Light Brigade wearing a corset, they'll laugh you right off the screen.

  Tony Powell : l'd rather get laughs than sympathy.

• Harry Granoff : Did you ever hear of an Italian film director called Federico Fabrizi?

  Tony Powell : No.

  Harry Granoff : He's downstairs. He wants to talk about a picture.

  Tony Powell : What?

  Harry Granoff : A neorealistic film.

  Tony Powell : Send him up. What's neorealism?

  Harry Granoff : No money!