Why the B-movie melodramatics? You could have just picked up a telephone.
3 seconds sound clip from the Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:08:54.739 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- I had a choice between kidnapping you and getting shot with that gun.
- And to be perfectly frank, I would look terrible and feel worse with an enormous hole in me.
- Miss Jouvet, how nice of you to come.
- Let's go where we can be private.
- I just wanna have a little talk with you.
- Why the B-movie melodramatics? You could have just picked up a telephone.
- To see the French godfather? Come on, Bruno, I'm a reporter. And a terrific-lookin' one at that.
- Come on. Let's make ourselves comfortable.
- Terrific. And put a fresh peach in it.
- You heard the lady. Some champagne and put a peach in it.
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