George C. Scott credited as playing...
John Russell
- John Russell: It's my understanding... that there are, uh... twenty-three students registered... for this series of lectures on advanced musical form. Now, we all know it's not raining outside, and unless there's a fire in some other part of the building that we don't know about, there's an awful lot of people here with nothing better to do.
- John Russell: [to Senator Carmichael] You're the beneficiary of the cruelest kind of murder... murder for profit!
- John Russell: You goddamn son of a bitch. What is it you want?
- [shouting]
- John Russell: What do you want from me? I've done everything I can do!
- [pause]
- John Russell: There's nothing more to do.
- De Witt: I understand you lost your wife and daughter a little while ago. Maybe it shook you up. Maybe too much... *Maybe*, you need help.
- John Russell: I'd like you to leave now...
- De Witt: [making his threat a bit more clear] We can see that you get it... do you understand what I'm saying?
- John Russell: [points to the door] Out! Now!
- De Witt: [pressing] Listen to me, Russell! You've got something of the Senator's... he wants it back. It's a little gold medal, a family heirloom, he lost it. He thinks *you've* got it.