Frank: So, when am I gonna see ya?
Fritzy: Marone, I hear they, they, they initiated my friend there, they sat him down over there. They made him play cards. The other guy got him.
Frank: I saw him yesterday.
Fritzy: Yeah, they got him playing cards.
Frank: "My dear man, you made a big mistake."
Fritzy: Why?
Frank: "They'll be calling your house at 2 o'clock in the morning."
Fritzy: Did you tell 'em?
Frank: Didn't you wise that guy up not to [UI] play cards.
Fritzy: What?
Frank: Didn't you tell him?
Fritzy: Hey, he's the one. Joe Bozo got it. Joey says, "Alright, sit down." He says, "Uh, you wanna play, you wanna try?" "Yeah, okay."
Frank: That's the end.
Fritzy: I says, "Wait..."
Frank: But it cost him 120, 200, 300...
Fritzy: Yeah, not too bad, he went for $60 yesterday.
Frank: That's the beginning.
Fritzy: He gave 'em the sympathy act. He patted 'em on the back, the other guy. "Geez, ya really had bad hands, huh?" He patted 'em, you know, "Yeah, boy you really did wind up..."
Frank: Does he know he ain't got a chance there with the thief?
Fritzy: That's the, that's the No Chance Saloon.
Frank: If that was the days of the West, he woulda been dead. They woulda shot him under the table.
Fritzy: Forget about it. They'da taken pictures of him shot up in the coffin outside, and everybody would take, uh, for a quarter, a nickel apiece they take pictures of the guy.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: In the fuckin' coffin you take with the famous, a famous guy, ya know?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: And you stand next to him and they take pictures all day long. They keep the dead body for months.
Frank: [Aside to girlfriend Helen] Fritzy says if it was days of the West they woulda shot him. And they woulda put him outside and they charge you a quarter to take a picture with him. The biggest thief of, the card shark of the West that just got killed.
Fritzy: They woulda left him with his long johns with a derby.
Frank: His dirty long johns.
Fritzy: Hey, you see the way they did Mussolini?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: With the, that's true. He was wearin' his long johns when they got him.
Frank: Do you know how they left him?
Fritzy: I know.
Frank: Naked. They ripped his hair out of his head.
Fritzy: I, he had no hair.
Frank: Whatever hair she had they ripped, they ripped his face. They clawed him.
Fritzy: I remember that.
Frank: You see the actual pictures?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Oh, what they did to the bodies. They mutilated them.
Fritzy: Yeah, yeah, I know.
Frank: They stuck them with knives, they put knives in...
Fritzy: My father called them every fuckin' name under the sun. "Them fuckin' dirty [Italian curse word]."
Frank: Listen to me.
Fritzy: ...My father loved him. My father loved this man.
Frank: Listen to me.
Fritzy: What?
Frank: If you had a son or a daughter that was killed by the Germans, and was raped by the Germans, the Germans went in there they raped the Italian people.
Fritzy: Don't believe it! You, you don't know what you're talkin' about. You don't know what you're talkin' about.
Frank: If the Germans went in...the Germans plundered Italy. They...
Fritzy: Never happened. You, you, you crazy...
Frank: They raped all the girls.
Fritzy: Forget about it. Where, where?
Frank: Were you in the war?
Fritzy: Hey.
Frank: I had friends of mine were over there.
Fritzy: Lemme tell you something. The Germans over there tiptoed through the Italians. That was their allies. Don't you dare.
Frank: Go to the library and start reading.
Fritzy: Yeah you go, I'll show you. That's bullshit, that's propaganda.
Frank: Yeah, that's...
Fritzy: Yeah, you go there. Anytime you wanna, anytime you want, I got relatives all throughout Italy. Forget about it. "Buon giorno, signora. Buon giorno, buon giorno." Bullshit. There's a lot of girls went out with the Germans. They're girlfriends the way the Italians do when they came in.
Frank: [UI] heads. The girls that went out, the Germans they shaved their heads.
Fritzy: Bullshit.
Frank: And they...
Fritzy: They did not occupy. Don't ever forget they were, don't you understand that they were Italy's ally? We, the, the Americans occupied Italy.
Frank: Yeah, they were everybody's ally.
Fritzy: Hey.
Frank: Every country they plundered.
Fritzy: C'mere, let me tell you something.
Frank: Yeah, I know.
Fritzy: C'mere. They were not, Germany was not Czechoslovakia's ally.
Frank: They were conquerors.
Fritzy: They conquered the...
Frank: They conquered the world, they...
Fritzy: They conquered, they conquered, uhh, Hungary. They conquered Czechoslovakia.
Frank: [UI] Mussolini?
Fritzy: What?
Frank: They would have killed him eventually.
Fritzy: Who?
Frank: Like he killed so many...
Fritzy: They conquered. C'mere, they conquered Poland. Here they plundered and raped and done wherever they con...But Italy, they did not occupy. They had nothin' to do with it, they came in and they transported [UI] troops.
Frank: Stop interrupting...
Fritzy: You, you don't know what you're talking about.
Frank: ...I'm gonna leave now.
Fritzy: Don't you hang up on me.
Frank: Your blood pressure's gone up.
Fritzy: Don't you hang up on me.
Frank: Have a happy holiday. A happy holiday, you and your family.
Fritzy: You too, pal.
Frank: Alright?
Fritzy: My best, alright?
Frank: [UI] kiss.
Fritzy: Okay, and you enjoy yourself tomorrow. Where you going tomorrow?
Frank: Helen says to give Carol her love.
Fritzy: Alright, Helen.
Frank: I'm goin' to my cousin's.
Fritzy: Where?
Frank: In Lindenhurst.
Fritzy: Long Island?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Oh, you'll be out here.
Frank: Lindenhurst, that near you?
Fritzy: Marone, I oughta make you call up, um, I oughta make you call Gail up. You're not far away, Lindenhurst.
Frank: Maybe I'll sneak over for a while.
Fritzy: Hey, hey, hey. I just wanted you to call up and say "Hello, happy..."
Frank: [UI] sneak over and see Gail. He says, "Oop I just want you to call on the phone," he says.
Fritzy: Whattya gotta tell Helen everything for, huh?
Frank: She's sittin' here listening to it.
Fritzy: Yeah, but you gotta repeat everything. Ah, you can, you can't just listen, huh? You gotta tell her...
Frank: Ah, goodnight you Nazi.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: You, you, you, Nazi.
Fritzy: I'm a, eh, I'm gonna take pictures [UI] one day. I'm gonna go into my closet. My Balilla pictures. I'm a Balilla, you know. I'm a registered Balilla. Do you know that? Do you know my...
Frank: Helen says you woulda been a good storm trooper.
Fritzy: Do you know?
Frank: You know what he woulda did? He woulda plowed all Italy.
Fritzy: Do you know? Let me tell you something. You know I'm registered with the fascists as a Balilla? I was registered when I was five years old.
Frank: [To Helen] "He's registered..."
Fritzy: I'm a blackshirt. I'm a blackshirt, you know.
Frank: You better keep it quiet.
Fritzy: Ah, so what, what do I give a fuck? I got a picture of me with my right hand up with the Mussolini salute.
Frank: You're lucky you didn't get locked up.
Fritzy: I'm gonna show you...
Frank: During the war they pinched all those guys.
Fritzy: You remember when Balbo flew? I got his uniform. You wanna see the white uniform? I'm gonna bring it down to you, I'll make you laugh.
Frank: [To Helen] "He's got the uniform when he flew with Balbo." Alright, Freddie.
Fritzy: It's true, I'm gonna bring the picture down, Cal. I'll put it up on the fuckin' wall. I'll make you piss.
Frank: Take care.
Frank: Alright. Take care, so long.
Frank: Have a healthy one, huh.
Fritzy: You too, pal.
Frank: So long.
Fritzy: So long.



