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CastElizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward
Year released1968
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Flora “Sissy” Goforth: "Pain, injection." (0:04)

Boatman, referring to poet Christopher Flanders: "... you idiot birdbrain..." (0:05)

Injection of Sissy’s arm (0:08)

A man tells Sissy, "... because of the widow of the man you killed here..." 
Sissy: ”The widow...” (0:10)

Sissy dictates: “... he fell to his death..." (0:12)

Chris tells Sissy’s secretary Miss Black, "... You’re the kindest person..." (0:20)

Sissy: “... codeine tabs...”
Sissy asks Miss Black, referring to Chris, "Does he seem like some kind of a nutcase to you?" (0:21)

Sissy asks Miss Black, ”... get me over this depression this summer?... all the shots and pills in the pharmaceutical kingdom...” 
Black: ”... my husband Charles. He died last spring.” (0:22)

Sissy asks “The Witch of Capri” (Bill), "... shots...?...” (0:29)

Bill tells Sissy, "... don’t depress me." 
”... she was thrown into a panic... he swallowed sleeping pills...” (0:31)

Chris, referring to Bill: "Drunk..." (0:39)

Black tells Chris, "Last spring I lost my husband." 
Chris: ”... put away your sleeping pills...” (0:41)

Sissy: "... clear as a vision... clear as a vision..." (0:43)

Chris tells Black, "Games can be honestly played." (0:49)

Chris: "You’re the kindest person..." (0:53)

Chris tells Sissy, "... you were my patient... subject to fits of unreasonable panic." (0:59)

Sissy tells Chris, "... proprieties of behavior... if it shocked anybody..." 
Chris: ”... most people get panicky... I get panicky...” (1:00)

Bill tells Sissy, "... dreaming about me." 
Sissy: ”... having a nightmare...” 
Bill tells Chris, ”... you were terribly depressed...” 
”... wearing one of her mad oriental costumes...” 
”... no dreams...” (1:02)

Bill: "Be brave, Sissy." 
Sissy: ”Brave about what?” (1:06)

Chris tells Sissy, "... subject to fits of unreasonable panic." (1:08)

Closeup of syringe (1:11)

Sissy asks Chris, "You mean you’ve burnt out as a poet?" 
”You mean you’ve burnt out as a poet?” 
Chris: ”... proud as you are... curious habits...” 
”... The shock of each moment...” (1:13)

Chris tells Sissy, "I just had some news that shocked me." 
"I'm a man who’s lost many friends.” (1:20)

Chris tells Sissy, "... vain as a peacock... the humility of my faith..." 
”... I have to be humble...” 
Sissy: ”It was silly of me... silly of me...” 
Chris: ”... in your nervous condition are frightened of heights.” 
Sissy tells Miss Black, ”I had an intuition...” 
Miss Black: “... taking drugs for it, they sometimes get confused.” (1:25)

Dr. Luilo, referring to Sissy: "... I’ve given her a shot of adrenaline..." 
Chris tells Miss Black, ”... You’re the kindest girl...” (1:30)

Sissy: "... gave me a shot of something..." 
Chris: ”I think that’s a wise idea.” (1:32)

Sissy tells Chris, "Modesty, modesty... suffering from modesty... why be selfish...?" 
”... as if you were paranoid?...” 
Chris: ”... whose mother died last night...” 
Sissy: ”... I’ve escorted six husbands to the eternal threshold...” 
Chris: ”... he panicked...” 
By intercom, Chris tells Luilo, ”... your patient is weak.” (1:35)

Chris: "The shock of each moment..." (1:50)

Reference in Pink Flamingos

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