Compulsion (1959)

Martin Milner: Sid Brooks

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• Sid Brooks : Look, have you got a phone I could use?

  Medical Examiner : Right there. Leave a nickel on the desk.

• Sid Brooks : That's like talkin' to a Roman candle.

• Ruth Evans : He wants to take me out to Hegewisch Park.

  Sid Brooks : Well, if you're an ornithologist, I guess that's the best place to go - to find various species of birds. Should be a very entertaining afternoon for you, watching Judd and all the other strange birds.

  Ruth Evans : Oh, stop it, Sid. Judd isn't as strange as you're making him out to be. And I really don't think he's that different from any other boy.

  Sid Brooks : Yeah, I guess he isn't. But...

  Ruth Evans : What?

  Sid Brooks : Well, you know, the birds, the genius I.Q., graduate school at 19 - I just don't get the feeling he's gonna challenge Dempsey for the title.

  Ruth Evans : Just because he can speak about something besides sex - you, Artie and all the rest of you seem to think he's some kind of freak.

  Sid Brooks : Look, honey, for all I know, he's another Casanova. I just don't think I'm gonna have to worry about you at Hegewisch Park.

• Sid Brooks : I don't understand you, Ruth. He tries to rape you and you defend him.

  Ruth Evans : I know. It's difficult to understand; but, see, you weren't there. You didn't see him like I did, Sid. If you did, you'd have some compassion or sympathy for him, believe me.

  Sid Brooks : Sympathy? Ruth, you sound as though you're sorry he didn't go through with it.

  [Ruth slaps Sid] 

  Sid Brooks : I hope they hang him. I hope he hangs till the rope rots.