Suddenly (1954)
Roy Engel: Driver Asking Slim for Directions
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[first lines]
First Driver : Officer, can you tell me the way to Three Rivers?
Slim Adams : About two miles to the first main intersection, then turn left. It's about sixty miles.
First Driver : Thanks, what town is this?
Slim Adams : Suddenly.
First Driver : Suddenly what?
Slim Adams : No no, that's the name.
First Driver : [laughs] That's a funny name for a town.
Slim Adams : Uh huh, hangover from the old days; that's the way things used to happen here, suddenly.
First Driver : I see.
Slim Adams : Road agents, gamblers, gunfighters.
First Driver : Well, I take it things have changed.
Slim Adams : Uh huh. Things happen so slow now, the town council is figuring to change the name to Gradually.
First Driver : [laughs] Thanks, officer.
Slim Adams : Pleasure, come back.