The Spanish Prisoner Page #3

Synopsis: Joe Ross is a rising star. He's designed a process that will make his company millions. He wants a bonus for this work, but fears his boss will stiff him. He meets a wealthy stranger, Jimmy Dell, and they strike up an off-kilter friendship. When the boss seems to set Ross up to get nothing, he seeks Dell's help. Then he learns Dell is not what he seems, so he contacts an FBI agent through his tightly-wound assistant, Susan Ricci. The FBI asks him to help entrap Dell. He accepts, a sting is arranged, but suddenly it's he who's been conned out of the process and framed for murder. Bewildered and desperate, he enlists Susan's aid to prove his innocence.
Director(s): David Mamet
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
PG
Year:
1997
110 min
1,733 Views


You might say the title means nothing,

The country hardly exists anymore.

But perhaps it means something.

And the princess, she's what?

She's--

Well, she's married, and she's

married to a friend of mine,

- So I saw you with the camera,

- Oh, yes.

What happened to the princess?

She was, of course, never here,

- We whisked her back to her husband.

- I understand,

- Good morning.

- Morning.

George Lang, Jimmy Dell,

- The fellow with the airplane.

- That's right,

- Pleasure. Nice plane,

- Beats walkin',

A fellow said, ''We must never

forget that we are human.

And as humans, we must dream.,,

and when we dream,

we dream of money.''

Well,

Money, Impresses everyone.

What did it ever do for one?

Useful if you want

to buy things,

I got this.

- My sister,

- She young and pretty?

I think she'd qualify

as young and pretty,

Im gonna take a walk,

you wanna take a walk?

Bedtime for me,

Perhaps we'll meet

back in New York,

I hope so.

- Got a card?

- Sure,

Lovely gesture of yours,

giving me that camera,

Copies of the bills

to the main office.,,

and all incidental and personal

items as we spoke of.

I know they're high on you. They even

told me to pick up your local calls.

- I didn't call on anybody.

- Well, you missed your chance.

Should have gone hog wild on the

company and stolen a bathrobe,

- Can I talk to you for a second?

- For the purposes of billing...

if you could render our account

into American dollars,...

and we would, of course,

pay the exchange rate today,

The group has expressed an anxiety about

the possibility of insider trading.

- I'm not about to indulge--

- Just mentioned it as a matter of--

- I understand.

- you understand what?

I understand that everyone is anxious,

Would you excuse me for a minute?

Okay, let me just take you

through these charges,

- This is your room charge,

- Thank you.

- Right.

- Thank you. It's been our pleasure,

This is radioed telephone calls

to the mainland,

And these were all

room and beverage.

And this is for

the steno translator,

- Is that right?

- This is for the international calls,

The international code.

Good, thank you.

We had the line open to

Switzerland every night.

That's fine,

Good morning.

How's the world traveler today?

Don't talk to me.

Feeling poorly?

I put a thief in my mouth

to steal my brains,

How was your evening?

Actually, I had

a rather interesting one,

Whoa, whoa.

What might this be?

Rich Aunt die?

Part of my adventure took place

in the casino. Here's your half,

- My half?

- We swore to share and share alike.

- I don't need this.

- A deal's a deal,

- Give it to charity.

- Wait a second.

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. more…

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