Deadline at Dawn (1946)

Marvin Miller: Sleepy Parsons

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• [first lines] 

  Edna Bartelli : Why, it's Sleepy Parsons. Aren't you dead yet?

  [Sleepy takes out a cigar, Edna pours a drink] 

  Edna Bartelli : Here's to nothin'. Still on your twenty cigars a day?

  [Sleepy puts cigar away] 

  Edna Bartelli : Can your heart take it, Sleepy?

  Sleepy Parsons : You drunk again?

  Edna Bartelli : Yes.

  Sleepy Parsons : Took you a long time to answer the door.

  Edna Bartelli : [laughs]  It's a great relief being divorced from you, Sleepy, dear.

  Sleepy Parsons : Give me the money and I'll go.

  Edna Bartelli : Do you think it'll rain and cool off.

  Sleepy Parsons : Give me my money, Edna, don't kid around.

  Edna Bartelli : What are you gonna do with all that cash, take out a chorus girl?

  [looks in her purse] 

  Edna Bartelli : It's gone!

  Sleepy Parsons : Don't fool around, I'm not in the mood.

  Edna Bartelli : Must be that kid.