Here's your first assignment. I want you to make up a prayer for the city of Chicago. We'll carry it on the editorial page. 'Our Father, who art in Heaven, last year there were 421 unsolved murders...' All set up in boldface Gothic.
— Walter Burns (Walter Matthau)
17 seconds sound clip from the The Front Page (1974) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:23:29 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Now, get over to the office and report to Duffy.
- You mean, right now? Oh, I couldn't quit the Tribune just like that. It wouldn't be ethical.
- You don't owe them a damn thing.
- Well, they have been treating me rather shabbily.
- The way they edit my copy. They just butcher it.
- On the Examiner, your copy will be sacred. Sacred. Sacred.
- Okay. I'll just get my rhyming dictionary.
- It doesn't have to rhyme! Just give me the Goddamndest prayer anybody ever heard.
- You want it Old Testament or New Testament?
- Let's have it between the Sermon on the Mount and the 23rd Psalm.
- Duffy, that Tribune sneak is on the way over. Yeah, Bensinger.
- Wait till he hands in his copy, then tell him his prayer stinks, and kick him down the stairs.
- His white-haired mother's tears, for Christ's sake.
[...]
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Actors: Jack Lemmon (Hildy Johnson), Walter Matthau (Walter Burns), Austin Pendleton (Earl Williams), Carol Burnett (Mollie Malloy), Susan Sarandon (Peggy Grant), Vincent Gardenia (Sheriff "Honest Pete" Hartman), David Wayne (Roy Bensinger)
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