Danger: Diabolik (1968)

Oscar Sciamanna: Journalist

Quotes 

• Minister of the Interior : Ladies and gentlemen, and especially the ladies and gentlemen of the press, who are with me here in this television studio... this conference has been arranged for the express purpose of enabling me to pass onto you some extremely heartening news. Your government, ever vigilant, determined to stamp out... to crush, the current crime wave, has restored... the death penalty.

  [audience chatters] 

  Minister of the Interior : As a temporary measure, of course. Faced with this extreme form of punishment, the socially-sick elements of our society... by that, I mean, criminals...

  Journalist : Are you referring to Diabolik?

  Minister of the Interior : Diabolik... I assure you that this individual, whose very name whose very name reveals his antagonism to the established values of our society, will soon be brought... to justice!

  [as the crowd chants "Hear, hear" and chatters, Diabolik, disguised as a photojournalist, uses his camera to spread "Exhilarating Gas" around the room] 

  Minister of the Interior : This criminal paranoid seems to have dedicated himself to a one-man fight against our society. This black mark, this manifestation of exaggerated delinquency has exceeded the boundaries of rational behaviour, within and without the legal structure that is the very basis of our freedom, and way of life.

  [some of the audience members chuckle] 

  Minister of the Interior : Mm-hm. He also seems to derive a great deal of pleasure... from me...

  [Diabolik "takes a picture", interrupting the Minister, who smiles and waves away the smoke coming from the camera] 

  Minister of the Interior : Making fun of our entire police force. He is certainly not going to make a fool of me.

  [Diabolik and Eva leave as the entire room erupts into uncontrollable laughter]