Sunset Boulevard Page #7

SHELDRAKE:

There's nothing, Gillis. Not

even if you were a relative.

GILLIS:

(Hating it)

Look, Mr. Sheldrake, could you

let me have three hundred bucks

yourself, as a personal loan?

SHELDRAKE:

Could I? Gillis, last year some-

body talked me into buying a ranch

in the valley. So I borrowed money

from the bank so I could pay for

the ranch. This year I had to

mortgage the ranch so I could keep

up my life insurance so I could

borrow on the insurance so I could

pay my income tax. Now if Dewey

had been elected -

GILLIS:

Goodbye, Mr. Sheldrake.

DISSOLVE TO:

A-12 EXT. SCHWAB'S DRUG STORE

(EARLY AFTERNOON ACTIVITY) GILLIS' VOICE

After that I drove down

MOVE IN toward drug store to headquarters. That's

and the way a lot of us think

about Schwab's Drug Store.

DISSOLVE TO:
Actors and stock girls and

waiters. Kind of a

combination office,Kaffee-

A-13 INT. SCHWAB'S DRUG STORE Klatsch and waiting room.

Waiting, waiting for the

The usual Schwabadero gravy train.

crowd sits at the fount-

ain, gossips at the

cigar-stand, loiters by

the magazine display.

MOVE IN towards the TWO

TELEPHONE BOOTHS. In I got myself ten nickels

one of them sits Gillis, and started sending out

a stack of nickels in a general S.O.S. Couldn't

front of him. He's get hold of my agent,

doing a lot of talking naturally. So then I

into the telephone, called a pal of mine,name

hanging up, dropping of Artie Green -- an awful

another nickel, dialing, nice guy, an assistant

talking again. director. He cquld let me

have twenty, but twenty

wouldn't do.

GILLIS' VOICE (Cont.)

Then I talked to a couple of

yes men at Twentieth. To me

they said no. Finally I

located that agent of mine, the

big faker. Was he out digging

up a job for poor Joe Gillis?

Hmph! He was hard at work in

Bel Air, making with the golf

clubs.

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