Backfire (1950)

Dane Clark: Ben Arno

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• Ben Arno : ...I figured all the business must have gone west, and I came out to look things over... found a place out on Sunset Strip... looked good. Then i tried to get a loan. No dice. "The banks like to see a sure thing," they said. "For instance?" I said. Something certain. I said, "All right. What's certain?" Two things... death and taxes. So I got to thinking, who comes to California? There's the ones who come here to live and the ones who come here to die. I couldn't get the live ones without a nightclun - so meet Ben Arno - mortician.

• Ben Arno : [to Bob about Steve]  I didn't only break his back the last ten days, I broke his heart,