Arthur Kennedy nel ruolo di...
Connie
- Midge: Look, you and me and the old lady. That's what's important. Nobody else.
- Connie: What's happened to you? Nothing stands in your way anymore, does it? First, Emma, then Johnny Dunne, now Haley. You've got your own way of destroying people and I don't want any part of it.
- Midge: Well, who's twisting your arm?
- Connie: Thanks, Midge. You've made it easy for me.
- [starts to leave]
- Midge: OK, go on. Feed yourself for a change. Find yourself a job. Go with Haley. Ah, take your bleeding heart out of here.
- Connie: It's not that, Midge. It's just that I wouldn't get much sleep at nights wondering when it was going to be my turn.
- [he exits]
- Connie: [entering the room holding a newspaper after Midge just dumped Haley as his manager] Hey, did you see what Walker says?
- [pauses when he notices their dour expressions]
- Connie: What's the matter?
- Haley: Nothing. This is a celebration. Midge is getting a shot at the title and he's got himself a new manager... a blonde.
- Connie: And I know you, but I didn't know you up in that ring. You looked as if you wanted to kill that guy. As if you would've killed him if they hadn't stopped you.
- Midge: Is that bad?
- Connie: I don't know. I really don't know. But I kept thinking you weren't just hitting that guy in the ring. I kept thinking you were hitting a lot of guys. Different guys. All the guys that ever hurt you. I can't put my finger on it but there's... there's something wrong about that.
- Connie: [to Midge] Why did you do it? Because you were bored? Did you have to prove to yourself you're really the champion? You stink! You stink from corruption! You're worse than a murderer. You're a grave robber!
- [Midge knocks him down]
- Connie: Why haven't you divorced him?
- Emma: I don't know. You know there's more loneliness than anything else in the world. You could be lonely in an awful lot of places - movies, dance halls, in your own room. People are funny.
- [she looks at her wedding ring]
- Emma: One little piece of cheap gold can almost make you believe things are different than they really are. What do you want, Connie? Does Midge want a divorce? He can have it!
- [she cries and leaves]
- Connie: [taking the high road about Midge to a reporter] He was a champion. He went out like a champion. He was a credit to the fight game until the very end.