Rear Window (1954)

Gig Young: Jeff's Editor

Quotes 

• Gunnison : It's about time you got married, before you turn into a lonesome and bitter old man.

  L.B. Jefferies : Yeah, can't you just see me, rushing home to a hot apartment to listen to the automatic laundry and the electric dishwasher and the garbage disposal and the nagging wife...

  Gunnison : Jeff, wives don't nag anymore. They discuss.

  L.B. Jefferies : Oh, is that so, is that so? Well, maybe in the high-rent district they discuss. In my neighborhood they still nag.

• [first lines] 

  Voice on radio : Men, are you over 40? When you wake up in the morning, do you feel tired and rundown? Do you have that listless feeling...

  [the camera pans around the courtyard; cut to later in the day] 

  L.B. Jefferies : [answering phone]  Jefferies.

  Gunnison : Congratulations, Jeff!

  L.B. Jefferies : For what?

  Gunnison : For getting rid of that cast!

  L.B. Jefferies : Who said I was getting rid of it?

  Gunnison : This is Wednesday; seven weeks from the day you broke your leg. Yes or no?

  L.B. Jefferies : Gunnison, how did you ever get to be such a big editor with such a small memory?

  Gunnison : By thrift, industry, and hard work... and, uh, catching the publisher with his secretary. Did I get the wrong day?

  L.B. Jefferies : No... no, wrong week. *Next* Wednesday I emerge from this plaster cocoon.

• L.B. Jefferies : I get myself half killed for you and you reward me by stealing my assignments.

  Gunnison : I didn't ask you to stand in the middle of that automobile racetrack.

  L.B. Jefferies : You asked for a, something dramatically different. You got it.

  Gunnison : So did you.

• L.B. Jefferies : Now wait a minute, Gunnison. You've got to get me out of here. Six weeks sitting in a two-room apartment with nothing to do but look out the window at the neighbors.

  Gunnison : Bye, Jeff.

  L.B. Jefferies : No, Gunnison... if you don't pull me out of this swamp of boredom, I'm gonna do something drastic.

  Gunnison : Like what?

  L.B. Jefferies : Like what. I'm gonna get married. Then I'll never be able to go anywhere.