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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