- I thought these people were broke.
- No, no, just cash poor. They had savings accounts, stocks to sell, houses to mortgage. Sell their wife's jewelry.
14 seconds sound clip from the The Grifters movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:00:26 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- He didn't think they were risks. He was so good, he could just play with the mark.
- He was so crooked, he could eat soup with a corkscrew.
- The least we ever took was 40.000, and the most was 185.000$, from one sucker!
- I thought these people were broke.
- Oh, they had plenty of money, when they put their minds to it. Or when I put their minds to it.
- And a month later, the sucker calls the cops... and you're on the run.
- No, no! He never calls the cops. Not after we give him the blow-off.
- FBI! Everybody hold what you've got! Back off!
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Actors: John Cusack (Roy Dillon), Anjelica Huston (Lilly Dillon), Annette Bening (Myra Langtry), Henry Burk Jones (Mr. Simms)
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