Mr. Majestyk (1974)

Al Lettieri: Frank Renda

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Quotes 

• Frank Renda : You know, we could be in LA tonight.

  Frank Renda : Get in a couple of broads.

  Frank Renda : Go to Mexico city in a few days.

  Frank Renda : Cruise around, get a boat, anything you want!

  Vince Majestyk : I've been to LA and I've been to Mexico and I've been laid.

  Frank Renda : Well, what DO you want?

  Frank Renda : I want to get a melon crop in!

• Vince Majestyk : [while in a jail cell eating food, Majestic looks over to Renda's plate who is eating alone and ask him...]  Hey buddy, you going to eat those sausages?

  [Renda pushes the plate off the table to the floor] 

  Vince Majestyk : You don't eat it, nobody eats it, then, huh?

  Frank Renda : [casually]  Help yourself.

• Wiley : [Frank and Wiley enter their new cabin lodge, where they meet Frank's lawyer, Dick Richard]  Hello, Richard.

  Dick Richard : Wiley. Hello, Frank.

  Frank Renda : Hello, Dick.

  [astonished by the quality of the house] 

  Frank Renda : Hey!

  Dick Richard : How do you like it?

  Frank Renda : It's not bad.

  Wiley : Looks like a dude ranch.

  Dick Richard : Belongs to a stockbroker I once represented.

  Frank Renda : Yeah, and where's he? In jail?

  Dick Richard : Lewisburg, as a matter of fact.

  Frank Renda : I figured.

  Dick Richard : [chuckling]  Conspiring, they say. To defraud the United States government.

  [Frank goes to the bar to pour himself a drink] 

  Wiley : I'll have one, too. I can use it.

  Dick Richard : Frank, where you been? Looking at melon fields?

  Frank Renda : I've been busy.

  Dick Richard : You're out on $5,000 bond, pending a district court examination in ten days.

  Frank Renda : [agitated]  What are you talking about? I thought I was clear.

  Dick Richard : Oh, you are, but they have to go through the motions.

  [Frank makes an exasperated groan] 

  Dick Richard : Frank, this is not the time to do anything impulsive.

  Frank Renda : There's a melon I gotta pick.

  Dick Richard : Also, there are some very big offers that have come in. Big offers from big people. Now, what am I supposed to tell them?

  Frank Renda : [heading towards the stairs]  You tell them I got something to do.

  Dick Richard : Frank.

  Frank Renda : Hey, if they don't like it, tough shit. Okay?

• Bobby Kopas : [Lundy is driving Frank, Wiley, and Kopas past the melon field with migrant workers Larry Mendoza hired]  We're up to it, now, Mr. Renda.

  [directs Frank to the field] 

  Bobby Kopas : Sir.

  Frank Renda : I thought you said nobody was working for him.

  Bobby Kopas : Oh, no crews. Just some migrants he hired, that's all.

  [They drive past a crew of road workers. Frank grows suspicious and leans towards Lundy] 

  Bobby Kopas : Go up a ways and turn around.

  [Lundy circles around and they drive back past the road construction zone] 

  Frank Renda : [to Kopas]  How long's that been here?

  Bobby Kopas : Oh, they're always patching up the road, getting in the way, you know what I mean?

  Frank Renda : How LONG?

  Bobby Kopas : [growing nervous]  I don't know, two, three days, sir, I think.

  [Frank discovers one of the road workers is actually Deputy Harold in disguise. An angry Frank yanks Kopas backwards] 

  Frank Renda : Don't you know cops when you see them?

  Bobby Kopas : [playing dumb]  Cops? Are you sure? I never thought about cops being around.

  [Frank lets go of Kopas] 

  Frank Renda : [to Lundy]  Pull over.

  Gene Lundy : Hmm?

  Frank Renda : Pull over... and stop!

  [Lundy stops the car] 

  Frank Renda : [to Kopas]  Okay, asshole... get out.

  Bobby Kopas : [scoffs]  What, right here? My car's all the way over in Edna. That's about a four or five-mile walk.

  [Lundy impatiently opens Kopa's door and he gets out] 

  Frank Renda : [signals Kopas]  Come here, you.

  [Kopas leans down near the door's backseat] 

  Frank Renda : You know, I ain't known you for a half-hour and you're talking shit to me out of the side of your face. I say I want nobody working for this guy and he's got a dozen people living here! The cops set up a grandstand to watch the show...

  [angrily clenches Kopa's hat as Wiley almost starts to laugh] 

  Frank Renda : ... and you don't even know that they're cops! I don't see where you're doing me any good, at all.

  Bobby Kopas : But I watched him for you, didn't I, so he wouldn't run, huh?

  Frank Renda : Yeah? Well, YOU better run off, now, and you better do just like Lundy says and don't you, ever, EVER talk no shit to me, again. Do you hear?

  Bobby Kopas : [uneasily]  Yes, sir.

  [He scrambles to get his hat after Frank lets it go] 

• Frank Renda : [Lundy is showing Frank and Wiley the inside of their new, spiffy camper]  A regular vacation, huh?

  Gene Lundy : Yeah.

  Frank Renda : Having a good time?

  Gene Lundy : I could use a rest. That stunt, hitting that bus, it took a couple years off me, man.

  Frank Renda : Where is he?

  Gene Lundy : [to Wiley]  Got a couple of beers?

  Frank Renda : Where is he?

  Gene Lundy : [directs a can of beer to Frank]  Want a beer?

  Frank Renda : WHERE IS HE?

  Gene Lundy : He turned himself in. They're holding him in Edna, last I heard.

  Wiley : It's kind of a tight fit, but it's got all the comforts of home, huh?

  Frank Renda : We're not home, my love, he is.

  Wiley : Frank, he's in jail, you're free. We can go anywhere you want.

  Frank Renda : There's only one thing I want.

  Gene Lundy : So, he gets out of jail, you have somebody kill him. It's the same difference, the dude's dead.

  Frank Renda : I said I want him, you understand? I want to look him in the face, hold a piece against his gut, and when I know that he's sure, I'm gonna kill him.

  Gene Lundy : Can I ask you a question? What, you just gonna walk up to that jail and ask those cops for a visitor's pass? How are you gonna get close to the dude?

  Frank Renda : You find that sucker he hit. Tell him to drop the complaint. It was all a mistake.

  Gene Lundy : Mm-hmm, suppose he doesn't want to do that?

  Frank Renda : I SAID TELL HIM, NOT ASK HIM! Then, you get a couple of our people. You find him, you call me, I come up, I'll have a talk with him, and then it's done.

  Gene Lundy : Frank, there's a dozen guys who would do it, guys who the cops aren't waiting to bust!

  Frank Renda : [enraged]  I SAID I WANT HIM! ME! Hey, I never killed anybody for free before, you see, but this one, I'm doing this as a special favor to myself and that's before I go to Matzatlan or lie on any beach! Am I getting through to you?

  [he goes to the back room and slams the curtain shut] 

• Bobby Kopas : [disgusted and shocked Renda sacrificed Lundy for Vince to kill]  You never saw him at all. You just told Lundy that.

  [Renda angrily cocks his gun] 

  Bobby Kopas : You used Lundy. You used him to set him up.

  [Renda shoves Kopas into the hallway and he begins to back up slowly] 

  Bobby Kopas : I don't even know what I'm doing here. I don't give a damn about that melon picker. Hey, this is none of my business, you know what I mean?

  [Kopas accidentally tumbles down the stairs, but quickly gets back up and continues to back away] 

  Bobby Kopas : I don't want to have anything to do with this anymore. Stay away from me.

  Frank Renda : You get out there.

  Bobby Kopas : No.

  Frank Renda : [yells]  GET OUT THERE!

  Bobby Kopas : I don't even have a gun! He'll kill me!

  Frank Renda : You got a choice. Stay here and I'll kill you.

  Bobby Kopas : I'm staying.

  [Renda fires a warning shot, causing Kopas to run out the door] 

• Gene Lundy : [Kopas and Lundy meet up with Renda and Wiley, coming back from a plane from Mexico, and gathers their luggage]  Hey, Frank. Smooth flight?

  Frank Renda : [getting out, mildly sarcastic]  Yeah.

  Gene Lundy : Rough, huh? Okay. Hey, Wiley, how you doing?

  [to Renda] 

  Gene Lundy : Your lawyer says he had to put up a bond, you gotta appear at some kind of hearing, but there's nothing he can nail you with.

  Wiley : [laughs]  God!

  Frank Renda : See?

  Wiley : Nothing like a little dumb luck, huh?

  Frank Renda : What do you mean, "luck"? The secret is, never run until you know you're being chased.

  Wiley : And have a fast lawyer available at all times.

  Frank Renda : Real fast.

  Gene Lundy : Hey, your lawyer, he's waiting at the lodge he rented for you.

  Frank Renda : Hey.

  Gene Lundy : He wants to talk to you.

  Frank Renda : Hey.

  Gene Lundy : Huh?

  Frank Renda : What about my melon picker?

  Gene Lundy : They turned him loose. That's the question, now, what the cops have in their minds.

  Frank Renda : No, the question is, what's he doing?

  Gene Lundy : [sighs]  He's around. We just saw him.

  Bobby Kopas : Probably at home, waiting on you. Uh, Mr. Renda, I was wondering if, when you finish him off, you let me put a couple slugs in him.

  Frank Renda : [unimpressed]  Who's this asshole?

  Gene Lundy : This is our friend, Bobby Kopas, the fellow Majestyk hit. He's been making sure nobody works for him, so there won't be a crowd hanging around there.

  Frank Renda : You know him good, huh?

  Bobby Kopas : Well, I know he's a stuck-up son of a bitch. He's got a few melons and think he's a big grower.

  Frank Renda : How long has he lived here?

  Bobby Kopas : Too long, huh?

  Frank Renda : [annoyed]  You know, it seems that I ask you questions and you don't answer them. I'll try you again. Would you like to show me where he lives?

  Bobby Kopas : Why, yes sir, any time.

  Frank Renda : Right now?

  Bobby Kopas : You bet.

• Frank Renda : [meets Vince face-to-face at the bar]  How you doing there, buddy?

  [sits down] 

  Frank Renda : You okay? I just came by to tell you something. Maybe you know it already. But I want to make sure. I'm gonna kill you.

  Vince Majestyk : [points across]  Hey, there's a couple cops over there.

  Frank Renda : Yeah. Otherwise you might be dead already.

  Vince Majestyk : When is this big event gonna take place?

  Frank Renda : What's the difference? Tomorrow. Next week. You can hide in the basement of that police station, but I'm gonna get you, my baby.

  Vince Majestyk : Seems like there's no use trying to get on your good side.

  [he stands up and clocks Renda, sending him to the floor. Harold and another deputy stand up in shock and Kopas rushes over to help Renda up, but shoves Kopas away, with Vince doing the same] 

  Vince Majestyk : [to Renda, pointing to the deputies]  Hey, why don't you call the cops?