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"for the price of admission."
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"But every full moon, the monster awakens and raises unholy hell with the villagers."
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"Give it a Eastern European look,"
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"men in leather shorts, gals in tattered peasant blouses."
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"- Let me guess. They think it's the devil? - Villagers always think it's the devil."
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"And the scientist and his creation are forced to flee"
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"during a raging electrical storm."
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"Flee from outraged peasants…"
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"Who pursue them mit torches…"
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"Overturn their creaky wagon…"
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"And set fire to it."
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"Tell him about the finale, Charlie."
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"Oh."
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"Well…"
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"the rain turns to sleet,"
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"puts out the fire, and entombs the monster in solid ice."
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"While nearby, an old priest weeps."
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"Hmm. A weeping priest?"
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"Thunder, lightning, blood, fire, religion…"
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"All in one film?"
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"And with an unseasonal thaw…"
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"a sequel."
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"I thought you said this was about something, this was different."
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"Plus, the ominous futility of man playing God."
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"The Faustian bargain of life everlasting."
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"And the triumph of the human spirit"
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"over the beast incarnate in our far-too-solid flesh."
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"It's director-proof."
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"Joe."
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"- B picture. - It's not for Joe."
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"Boys, this is serious. We need your help."
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"We've got to get people into theaters, but…"
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"how?"
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"Show movies in the streets."
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"You okay, Charlie?"
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"Taken care of this weekend?"
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"- I'm going to see my aunt. - Oh, that sounds like fun."
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"You obviously don't know my aunt. If you're not doing anything, come along."
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"Careful, I just might."
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"Glendale station at 7:00. Bring Sara if you like."
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"- Who? - Sara, isn't that your wife?"
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"Oh, you mean Poor Sara."
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"No, she and the kids are back East."
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"Herman."
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"Herman."
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"- Herman! - Charlie!"
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"Ah."
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"Cut! Next setup, please."
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"What is Mank doing here?"
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"- Who? - Herman Mankiewicz."
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"- Do I know him? - He wrote one of our Lon Chaneys."
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"- Ah. - Mank!"
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"- Thalberg, the boy genius. - I am shocked to see you here."
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"I'd be shocked to see me here, too, Irving, if only I knew where here was."
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"- You wrote one of our Lon Chaneys. - Among many."
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"- Pictures? - Writers."
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"- At MGM, movies are a team sport. - Which may be why I'm at Paramount."
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"Since when don't Paramount use writers by the truckload?"
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"But all at once, not in relays."
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"Helps spread the blame around."
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"You remember our chairman, Louis B. Mayer?"
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"By reputation only."
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"- Long night? - A short one. Plagued by spirits."
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"A hell of a way to spend the Sabbath, fellas."
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"Here in support of a friend."
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"His leading lady is making a mid-career adjustment."
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"Ah, I'm on my way over. Any notes from the oversight tent?"
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"- Who was that again? - Just a writer."
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"Slumming on a Saturday, Mr. Metcalf?"
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"Mank. No, sir, helping out on B camera."
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"It's a home movie, but his idea of a home movie."
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"I know you."
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"Well, what's at stake here?"
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"We met at John Gilbert's birthday. You're Herman Mankiewicz."
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"Guilty."
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"And I remember you, Miss Davies."
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"Regaling us with stories about dodging trolley cars in Brooklyn."
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"Your Flatbush was showing."
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"You fractured Wally Beery's wrist Indian wrestling."
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"Admittedly, a lucky break."
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"Boy, was he surprised. You're stronger than you look."
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"And from what I understand, you're smarter."
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"That was a compliment."
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"- See what I mean? - You are interesting."
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"I need a favor,"
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"but you're gonna have to promise you won't laugh."
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"Given the state of the world, a tall order."
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"You're gonna. I just know you are."
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"I have got such a hangover right now, there's just a fighting chance I won't."
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"I'm being burned at the stake, and I am dying for a ciggie-boo."
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"There. God's punishing you."
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"Watch those stairs. They're treacherous."
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"Every moment of my life is treacherous."
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"Any last words?"
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"Welcome to San Simeon."
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"I've written worse."
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"- You've never seen it? - No, but George Bernard Shaw was right."
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"How's that?"
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""It's what God might've built had he had the money.""
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"Well, as they say in the Bronx, "Make yourself to home," Mr. Mankiewicz."
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"- Or shall I call you Herman? - No. Please, call me Mank."
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"- Good morning, Charles. - Charlie."
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"- Aunt Marion. Mank. - You sleep well?"
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"Until your rather dramatic wake-up call."
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"This is all Pops's idea. He wants me ready to take on the talkies."
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"First positions!"
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"Riders, ready!"
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"Rolling!"
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"- Speed. - Speed! Action!"
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"Help! Please! Someone save me!"
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"Cut!"
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"Pops, this is Herman Mankiewicz, but we have to call him Mank."
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"Mankiewicz?"
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"Herman Mankiewicz, New York playwright and drama critic?"
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"Turned humble screenwriter, Mr. Hearst."
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"Why, no need to be humble, Mr. Mankiewicz."
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"Pictures that talk are the future."
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"They're gonna need people who honor words, give them voice."
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"There's a golden age coming when all the world will be a stage,"
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"and you, perhaps, their Shakespeare."
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